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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Mexican Immigrants"”.
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The political assimilation of Mexican immigrants in the American Southwest
… ethnic identity and political values that immigrants to the United States have undergone to blend them into the national fabric and asks why other nations have not enjoyed similar degrees of success in absorbing new peoples. Using a sample of first-generation Mexican immigrants to West …
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Early care and education services utilization among Mexican immigrants in central Illinois
Mexicans represent more than half (65%) of the Latinos in the United States, and Latinos are the largest racial/ethnic minority group (U.S. Bureau, 2011a). Over the last decade, the number of Latino children has increased faster than those of other racial/ethnic groups, and nearly one quarter (22%) …
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Mexican Immigrants to Hutchinson, Kansas, 1905-1940: How a Temporary Haven Became Home
The Mexican-American community in Hutchinson, Kansas, is small but members are an active and accepted part of the city. This paper looks at how and why hundreds of Mexicans immigrated to this central Kansas community during the early twentieth century seeking a refuge from their troubled homeland, …
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Experiences of ethnic-related discrimination and their influence on the health of Mexican immigrants
… the discrimination experiences among a sample of Mexican immigrants living in the Midwest, (b) factors that contribute to perceptions of discrimination, (c) the influence of discrimination experiences on health and, (d) the ways participants cope with such experiences and the potential buffering …
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Food practices, dietary patterns, and leisure behaviors among Mexican immigrants in the Midwestern United States
… in food practices and dietary patterns among Mexican immigrants and investigated how leisure was related to these food practices and dietary patterns. The overall objective of the study was to characterize this process of change in food practices and dietary patterns and the role of leisure in …
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TESTIMONIOS ON THE ROLE OF MENTORSHIP OF MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS’ HIGHER ACADEMIC ATTAINMENT: VENGO CON GANAS, SOLO ÉCHAME UNA MANO!
… higher academic attainment of first generation Mexican immigrants. The researcher assures to demonstrate how constructs such as mentorship, self-efficacy, self-regulated learning, social and cultural capital, and similar heritage due to cultural values can positively influence and contribute to …
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Challenges and Possibilities of Emigrante Epistemology: Mexican Immigrants Caught in the Crossfire of Neo-liberalism within Post 9/11 United States
… economic, and social conditions facing Mexican immigrant families within post 9/11 United States have a direct effect on their daily lives. The current climate of anti-immigrant, xenophobic, and racist discourse is perpetuated through mainstream media, political agendas, and even …
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Con el nopal pegado en la frente: A psychosocial study of prejudice and discrimination among Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans in Arizona
… to prejudice and discrimination among the Mexican-origin population in the U.S. state of Arizona. I argue that although the Mexican-origin population has been oppressed and discriminated against by the dominant white population for centuries, this minority group has its own history of …
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A cross-cultural study of leisure among Mexicans in the state of Guerrero, Mexico and Mexican immigrants from Guerrero in the United States
… understanding of the concept of leisure among Mexicans from the state of Guerrero, Mexico and among Mexican immigrants from Guerrero, residing in Chicago, IL with specific emphasis on age, gender, and marital status; (b) Identify forces that shape the experience of leisure among Mexicans from …
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Who needs and who wants financial education? A study of the characteristics of Mexican immigrants participating in a financial education program in New York City.
… characteristics of first generation underserved Mexican immigrants participating in a community-based financial education program in New York City. According to the literature, this group is less likely than other ethnic groups in the United States to have a bank account and understand and …
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A Modern Examination of Marcus Goldstein’s Mexican Immigrant Population Data: Comparisons of Mexican-born and U.S.-born Children and Adults Living in 1930’s America and Mexico
… on two different groups of individuals, Mexican immigrants and their children residing in the San Antonio, Texas area and Mexican natives living in central and northern Mexico. Using independent samples T-tests, an analysis of covariance, and an RMET analysis, significant differences …
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A Modern Examination of Marcus Goldstein’s Mexican Immigrant Population Data: Comparisons of Mexican-born and U.S.-born Children and Adults Living in 1930’s America and Mexico
… on two different groups of individuals, Mexican immigrants and their children residing in the San Antonio, Texas area and Mexican natives living in central and northern Mexico. Using independent samples T-tests, an analysis of covariance, and an RMET analysis, significant differences …
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Social Relationships and Immigrant Health: Structural and Temporal Perspectives
… extensive attention to the health outcomes of immigrants and the implications of their social relationships. Scholars have yet to fully appreciate, however, how immigrants' personal relationships are fundamentally shaped by the structural conditions that encompass their lived experiences, and …
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HEALTHY IMMIGRANTS? EXPLORING COUNTRY OF ORIGIN, PRE-IMMIGRATION EXPERIENCES, AND ACCULTURATION IN RELATIONSHIP TO U.S. IMMIGRANTS’ HEALTH
<p>Immigrants belonging to some racial/ethnic minority groups might not be benefitting from the healthy migrant effect. With data from the New Immigrant Survey (2003), which includes immigrants from Mexico, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Cuba, and Jamaica, I examine the odds of three health outcomes, …
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Class, labor, and color hierarchies: an ethnographic study of Mexican yarderos/as in South Chicago
"In 1916, the first wave of Mexican immigrants arrived in South Chicago. Despite shortage of housing, food, and work, the South Chicago colony grew in size to become one of the key destinations of thousands of Mexican immigrants in the twentieth century. In the late 1980s, triggered by a neoliberal …
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Challenging Notions of U.S. Citizenship: The Contributions of Mexican Americans
<p>The United States has always been a nation of immigrants, in which the idea of “citizenship” has had very strong intrinsic values, and has divided those who “have it” from those who “don’t,” since the first legal construction of such categories in 1790. Longstanding contradictions, characterized …
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Shadow suburbanism : Mexican everyday life, fear, and space in Greater Atlanta
… traditional patterns of U.S. migration locate Mexican immigrants and Mexican- Americans in dense urban centers, but recent, rapid demographic shifts reveal suburbs and exurbs - specifically in the South - as the new host destinations for Mexican settlement. This critical "Latinization" …
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Free trade refugees: from Chiapas to the prairie
… phenomenon of the experience of immigrant Mexicans to the Midwest and aims to inspire action rather than only to prompt reflection. Situated as part of the broader historical trends of Mexican immigrant migration to the United States in the post-NAFTA era, the video documentary in …
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Immigration as a "Theologizing Experience": Spiritual Well-Being as a Moderating Factor in Migratory Grief and Acculturation
… sampling method. Data were collected from 75 Mexican immigrant adult education students in the city of Chicago. Instruments used to collect data were a demographic form, Spiritual Well-Being Scale, Migratory Grief and Loss Questionnaire, and the Stephenson Multigroup Acculturation Scale. All …
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