Violence Against Latina Immigrants

Violence Against Latina Immigrants

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  • Author: Roberta Villalon
  • Publisher: NYU Press
  • ISBN: 0814788262
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 219

Caught between violent partners and the bureaucratic complications of the US Immigration system, many immigrant women are particularly vulnerable to abuse. For two years, Roberta Villalón volunteered at a nonprofit group that offers free legal services to mostly undocumented immigrants who had been victims of abuse. Her innovative study of Latina survivors of domestic violence explores the complexities at the intersection of immigration, citizenship, and violence, and shows how inequality is perpetuated even through the well-intentioned delivery of vital services. Through archival research, participant observation, and personal interviews, Violence Against Latina Immigrants provides insight into the many obstacles faced by battered immigrant women of color, bringing their stories and voices to the fore. Ultimately, Villalón proposes an active policy advocacy agenda and suggests possible changes to gender violence-based immigration laws, revealing the complexities of the lives of Latina immigrants as they confront issues of citizenship, gender violence, and social inequalities.


Remaking Citizenship

Remaking Citizenship

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  • Author: Kathleen Coll
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • ISBN: 0804773696
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 249

Standing at the intersection of immigration and welfare reform, immigrant Latin American women are the target of special scrutiny in the United States. Both the state and the media often present them as scheming "welfare queens" or long-suffering, silent victims of globalization and machismo. This book argues for a reformulation of our definitions of citizenship and politics, one inspired by women who are usually perceived as excluded from both. Weaving the stories of Mexican and Central American women with history and analysis of the anti-immigrant upsurge in 1990s California, this compelling book examines the impact of reform legislation on individual women's lives and their engagement in grassroots political organizing. Their accounts of personal and political transformation offer a new vision of politics rooted in concerns as disparate as domestic violence, childrearing, women's self-esteem, and immigrant and workers' rights.


Gendered Journeys: Women, Migration and Feminist Psychology

Gendered Journeys: Women, Migration and Feminist Psychology

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  • Author: Oliva M. Espín
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 1137521473
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 512

This book brings a psychological perspective to the often overlooked and understudied topic of women's experiences of migration, covering topics such as memory, place, language, race, social class, work, violence, motherhood, and intergenerational impact of migration.


Immigrant and Refugee Families

Immigrant and Refugee Families

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  • Author: Jaime Ballard
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Immigrant families
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 215

"Immigrant and Refugee Families: Global Perspectives on Displacement and Resettlement Experiences uses a family systems lens to discuss challenges and strengths of immigrant and refugee families in the United States. Chapters address immigration policy, human rights issues, economic stress, mental health and traumatic stress, domestic violence, substance abuse, family resilience, and methods of integration."--Open Textbook Library.


Defending Latina/o Immigrant Communities

Defending Latina/o Immigrant Communities

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  • Author: Alvaro Huerta
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
  • ISBN: 0761871284
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 223

A collection of short essays and stories, Defending Latina/o Immigrant Communities: The Xenophobic Era of Trump and Beyond focuses on one of the most vilified, demonized, and scapegoated groups in the United States: Latina/o immigrants. Using his rigorous academic training, public policy knowledge, and community activist background, as well as his personal and familial experiences as the son of Mexican immigrants, Alvaro Huerta defends and humanizes los de abajo / those on the bottom. He skillfully re-frames how Latina/o immigrants should be viewed as productive and important members in this country, debunking the xenophobic tropes, lies, and myths about Latina/o immigrants as criminals, social burdens, and national security threats. Accompanied by the brilliant art of an internationally acclaimed artist, Salomon Huerta, and powerful photos of two established photographers, this book also investigates intersectional issues related to race, class, place, and state violence.


Captivity Beyond Prisons

Captivity Beyond Prisons

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  • Author: Martha D. Escobar
  • Publisher: University of Texas Press
  • ISBN: 1477309012
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 262

Today the United States leads the world in incarceration rates. The country increasingly relies on the prison system as a “fix” for the regulation of societal issues. Captivity Beyond Prisons is the first full-length book to explicitly link prisons and incarceration to the criminalization of Latina (im)migrants. Starting in the 1990s, the United States saw tremendous expansion in the number of imprisoned (im)migrants, specifically Latinas/os. Consequently, there was also an increase in the number of deportations. In addition to regulating society, prisons also serve as a reproductive control strategy, both in preventing female inmates from having children and by separating them from their families. With an eye to racialized and gendered technologies of power, Escobar argues that incarcerated Latinas are especially depicted as socially irrecuperable because they are not considered useful within the neoliberal labor market. This perception impacts how they are criminalized, which is not limited to incarceration but also extends to and affects Latina (im)migrants’ everyday lives. Escobar also explores the relationship between the immigrant rights movement and the prison abolition movement, scrutinizing a variety of social institutions working on solutions to social problems that lead to imprisonment. Accessible to both academics and those in the justice and social service sectors, Escobar’s book pushes readers to consider how, even in radical spaces, unequal power relations can be reproduced by the very entities that attempt to undo them.


The Handbook of Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice

The Handbook of Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice

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  • Author: Ramiro Martinez, Jr.
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
  • ISBN: 1119114012
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 582

This Handbook presents current and future studies on the changing dynamics of the role of immigrants and the impact of immigration, across the United States and industrialized and developing nations. It covers the changing dynamics of race, ethnicity, and immigration, and discusses how it all contributes to variations in crime, policing, and the overall justice system. Through acknowledging that some groups, especially people of color, are disproportionately influenced more than others in the case of criminal justice reactions, the “War on Drugs”, and hate crimes; this Handbook introduces the importance of studying race and crime so as to better understand it. It does so by recommending that researchers concentrate on ethnic diversity in a national and international context in order to broaden their demographic and expand their understanding of how to attain global change. Featuring contributions from top experts in the field, The Handbook of Race and Crime is presented in five sections—An Overview of Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice; Theoretical Perspectives on Race and Crime; Race, Gender, and the Justice System; Gender and Crime; and Race, Gender and Comparative Criminology. Each section of the book addresses a key area of research, summarizes findings or shortcomings whenever possible, and provides new results relevant to race/crime and justice. Every contribution is written by a top expert in the field and based on the latest research. With a sharp focus on contemporary race, ethnicity, crime, and justice studies, The Handbook of Race and Crime is the ideal reference for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars interested in the disciplines such as Criminology, Race and Ethnicity, Race and the Justice System, and the Sociology of Race.


Latino Immigrants in the United States

Latino Immigrants in the United States

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  • Author: Ronald L. Mize
  • Publisher: Polity
  • ISBN: 0745647421
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 209

This timely and important book introduces readers to the largest and fastest-growing minority group in the United States - Latinos - and their diverse conditions of departure and reception. A central theme of the book is the tension between the fact that Latino categories are most often assigned from above, and how those defined as Latino seek to make sense of and enliven a shared notion of identity from below. Providing a sophisticated introduction to emerging theoretical trends and social formations specific to Latino immigrants, chapters are structured around the topics of Latinidad or the idea of a pan-ethnic Latino identity, pathways to citizenship, cultural citizenship, labor, gender, transnationalism, and globalization. Specific areas of focus include the 2006 marches of the immigrant rights movement and the rise in neoliberal nativism (including both state-sponsored restrictions such as Arizona’s SB1070 and the hate crimes associated with Minutemen vigilantism). The book is a valuable contribution to immigration courses in sociology, history, ethnic studies, American Studies, and Latino Studies. It is one of the first, and certainly the most accessible, to fully take into account the plurality of experiences, identities, and national origins constituting the Latino category.


Yes I Can, (Sí, Yo Puedo)

Yes I Can, (Sí, Yo Puedo)

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  • Author: Catherine Luz Marrs Fuchsel
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 019067282X
  • Category : Family & Relationships
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 193

The Sí, Yo Puedo (SYP) curriculum is an 11-week educational program, conducted in Spanish and offered in a group format. Sessions are structured with goals, objectives, in-class self-reflection drawing and writing exercises, and instructions for mental health professionals. The SYP program focuses on education of healthy relationships, domestic violence, and improvement of self-esteem.


Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Women and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

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  • Author: Denise A. Segura
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • ISBN: 9780822341185
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 620

Seminal essays on how women adapt to the structural transformations caused by the large migration from Mexico to the U.S.A., how they create or contest representations of their identities in light of their marginality, and give voice to their own agency.