Garcini, Luz Chen, Nellie Cantu, Erica Sanchez, Natalie Ziauddin, Khadija Maza, Valentina Molina, Mirna
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Journal of immigrant & refugee studies
Undocumented immigrants often experience multiple chronic stressors that over time can increase health risk. This qualitative study used data from 7 focus groups and 15 key informant interviews to identify relevant protective factors to the heath of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. Findings showed that at the individual level, undocumented immig...
Ataç, Ilker
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Journal of immigrant & refugee studies
Limitations in access to welfare services for noncitizens of a host country are structured through conditional entitlements, which require benefit claimants to meet certain conditions to access welfare services. This article explores the conditions and regulations determining access to state-organized accommodation facilities for non-removed reject...
Rosenberger, Sieglinde
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Journal of immigrant & refugee studies
Although nonremoved rejected asylum seekers (NRASes) are declared unwanted, the liberal state is obliged to provide them with basic social protections. We argue that various social policy designs can mediate the representative-politics-liberal-rights dilemma and allow for (limited) access to differentiated, conditioned benefits. Drawing on migratio...
Hess, Julia Meredith Isakson, Brian Nelson, Matthew Goodkind, Jessica R
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Journal of immigrant & refugee studies
The U.S. war with Iraq led to the displacement of millions of Iraqis, many of whom have resettled in the United States as refugees. We explore the challenges Iraqi families face after resettlement, with a particular focus on the agency of refugees and challenges/opportunities of familial social reproduction in a transnational context. We conducted ...
Yang, Lawrence Lo, Graciete Tu, Ming Wu, Olivia Anglin, Deidre Saw, Anne Chen, Fang-Pei
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Journal of immigrant & refugee studies
Encounters with Western psychiatric treatment and acculturation may influence causal beliefs of psychiatric illness endorsed by Chinese immigrant relatives, thus affecting help-seeking. We examined causal beliefs held by forty-six Chinese immigrant relatives and found that greater acculturation was associated with an increased number of causal beli...
Clevenger, Casey Derr, Amelia Seraphia Cadge, Wendy Curran, Sara
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Journal of immigrant & refugee studies
This article explores how social service providers in two small, geographically distinct cities-Portland, Maine, and Olympia, Washington-understand the importance of welcoming and incorporating new immigrants in their cities. We focus on how providers characterize their responsibilities, how they understand the importance of responding to new immig...
Jamil, Hikmet Aldhalimi, Abir Arnetz, Bengt B
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Journal of immigrant & refugee studies
This study investigates employment and health outcomes in Iraqi refugees compared to Iraqi immigrants. We surveyed 148 Iraqi professional refugees and 111 Iraqi professional immigrants residing in the U.S. We hypothesized that Iraqi refugees would report lower employment and worse self-rated health as compared to Iraqi immigrants. Logistic Regressi...
Kim, Su Yeong Benner, Aprile D Ongbongan, Kathleen Acob, Josephine Dinh, Khanh T Takushi, Rena Mae Nalani Dennerlein, Donna
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Journal of immigrant & refugee studies
Changrani, Jyotsna Gany, Francesca M Cruz, Gustavo Kerr, Ross Katz, Ralph
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Journal of immigrant & refugee studies
Smokeless tobacco and areca nut are popular with South Asians and South Asian immigrants, most commonly used as paan and gutka. Their regular use leads to oral cancer. The South Asian community in the U.S. is rapidly growing, where paan and gutka are readily available. The study was the first exploration of the migration of the paan and gutka habit...
