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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Undocumented Immigrants"”.
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Are We Forgetting Someone? Undocumented Immigrants and Healthcare
The future of healthcare for undocumented immigrants (UIs) in the United States is bleak. Almost completely left out of healthcare reform, UIs are likely to comprise an increasingly greater portion of the U.S. uninsured population, with only limited options to meet their healthcare needs. Now more …
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Access to Life: Advanced Heart Failure Therapies for Undocumented Immigrants
… U.S. healthcare system systematically excludes undocumented immigrants (UIs) from life-sustaining treatments for advanced heart failure (AHF), creating profound ethical violations and health disparities. This thesis demonstrates how excluding UIs from AHF therapies breaches justice, autonomy, …
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Attitudes Towards Undocumented Immigrants: Influences of Political Ideology, Media Bias Exposure, Race/Ethnicity, and Ethnocultural Empathy
… ethnocultural empathy, and attitudes toward immigrants, with a focus on the mediating role of ethnocultural empathy. A sample of 402 undergraduate psychology students at a large public university in Texas completed measures assessing political conservatism, media consumption habits, …
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Development and Implementation of a Predictive Model of Documentation Status to Examine Factors Related to Health Outcomes for Undocumented Immigrants
… States (US) is home to more than 8.6 million undocumented Hispanic immigrants. These individuals face significant barriers to accessing health services and are a subpopulation on whom relatively little research has been done. Undocumented Hispanics are faced with unique vulnerabilities, and …
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An Analysis of the Attitudes of Higher Education Leaders in 18 High-Immigration States about the Appropriateness of Providing Education Benefits to Undocumented Immigrants.
… to the significantly increasing number of undocumented students. However, public policy has not clearly addressed undocumented immigrants' residency status in regard to college and university admissions standards. This issue will affect education leaders in public institutions of higher …
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Beyond policy: ethical considerations of immigration enforcement & policies
Healthcare access for undocumented immigrants in the Unites States is limited by a complex intersection of legal, structural, and social barriers. Due to exclusions from most options for health insurance, many undocumented immigrants have extremely limited options to receive healthcare. Emergency …
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Protesting theories about immigrant workers : economic change and Sans-Papiers activism in France
A wave of protests by undocumented immigrants has swept through France over the past three years, and has pushed the issue of immigration and the changing role of migrant workers in the economy to the fore of the political stage. These protests have brought to light how shifts in the French …
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Are immigrants in Massachusetts accessing welfare? : an exploratory study of families in Boston and the Merrimack Valley
… their families. The researcher hypothesized that immigrants with lower educational status and poor English proficiency would earn lower wages than individuals with higher educational status and better English proficiency. Additionally, it was also hypothesized that families headed by undocumented …
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The immigrant in our head: Skin tone, social categorization, and support for policy
… affect the social classification of immigrants, their legal status, and the relationship between support for immigration policies and specific patterns of categorization. In the current research, I investigated whether social categorizations of individuals as undocumented immigrants …
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Essays in immigration economics
"The first essay analyzes how allowing undocumented immigrants to legally obtain driver's licenses shifts commuting patterns, increases job accessibility, and improves labor market outcomes. Using state- and nativity-level variation in reforms, I show that granting driving privileges to …
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Whose Nation is it? A Critical Analysis of the Impacts of Conservative Nationalism and Migration Security on Marginalized Groups in America
… laws and practices intended to target undocumented immigrants (Hajnal, 2021). The framing of non-white migrants as threats to the state structurally impacts the lives and experiences of minorities perceived as immigrants (Almeida et al., 2016) while magnifying the perceptions of the …
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Essays in applied microeconomics
… whether amenities affect the location of immigrants within the United States. Immigrants to the United States live disproportionately in metropolitan areas where nominal wages are high, but real wages are low. This sorting behavior may be due to preferences toward certain quality-of-life …
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Dignity'S Revolt: Threat, Identity, And Immigrant Mass Mobilization
… findings indicate that a legislative threat to undocumented immigrants, and those who assisted them, helped create the opportunity for immigrant mass mobilization. This threat - along with the subsequent xenophobic rhetoric and discrimination against both immigrants and U.S.-born people of color …
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Narrative Identity Within A Workers' Rights Organization
… in a cultural context hostile toward undocumented immigrants. Further, I examine how the worker-members themselves both internalize and challenge the organizational, institutional, and cultural narratives about undocumented immigrant workers. Findings reveal that the staff members and …
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The Wrath of Ignorance: Schizophrenic Policies in Access to Health Care for Undocumented Latinas
… problems of health care access experienced by undocumented Latinas: women from Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean. Those who are undocumented may encounter significantly reduced access to health care, for the risk of discovery causes them to be more furtive in their …
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Experience of Undocumented Immigrant Children in the Child Welfare System
As the number of undocumented immigrants entering the U.S. continues to increase, the number of undocumented children and families who come into contact with the child welfare system is also increasing. Currently, there are no federal or state guidelines addressing the immigration status of …
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The Latino Public Sphere in Minnesota: Enacting Cultural Citizenship Through Media
… how federal and state public policy defines undocumented immigrants as second-class non-citizens, thereby shaping Latinos' participation in the virtual public sphere. The two political campaigns also demonstrate how Latinos have used social media to push back against exclusion, to fight for …
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Voices of Latino/a immigrants in southeast Michigan: Beyond the criminal/Victim dichotomy
… traditions that readily incorporate Latino immigrants’ voices into their work, and drawing upon postmodern, feminist, and activist schools of thought, this study illuminates the history of immigration policy and discourse in America and the Latino community’s knowledge and expertise about …
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Writing the Next Chapter: A Critical Case Study of Undocumented Immigrant College Students’ Lived Experiences
Over 65,000 undocumented immigrant high school students graduate each year, and many have strong aspirations to continue into a post-secondary institution (Drachman, 2006; Perez, 2010). However, less than 13,000 are actually able to do so (Diaz-Strong, Gomez, Luna-Duarte, & Meiners, 2010). I …
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Undocuactivism: Latina/o undocuactivists fighting for change in the U.S.
… of undocuactivism, which is the mobilization of undocumented immigrants. Through in-depth interviews, physical and virtual fieldwork, archival online research, analysis of social media and protest art, as well as the use of history, critical theory, law, and interdisciplinary literature, this …
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