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What You Need to Know
Discrimination
Use your Racial and Ethnic Groups textbook to read the following:
Chapter 3, “Discrimination,” pages 55–77.
This chapter examines how institutions discriminate, the effects of discrimination, efforts to reduce discrimination, affirmative action, and the glass ceiling in the workplace.
Use the Capella library to read the following:
Ayón, C., Valencia-Garcia, D., & Kim, S. H. (2017). Latino immigrant families and restrictive immigration climate: Perceived experiences with discrimination, threat to family, social exclusion, children’s vulnerability, and related factors. Race and Social Problems, 9(4), 300–312.
This article examines the relationship between restrictive immigration policies and the experience of discrimination for Latino families.
Ayón, C., Wagaman, M. A., & Philbin, S. P. (2018). No te dejes pisotear por nadien: Examining Latino immigrants’ efforts to resist discrimination. Journal of Social Service Research, 44(1), 78–95.
The authors of this study examine the ways Latino immigrant parents respond to incidents of discrimination, including the process by which they determine how to respond.
Immigration
Use your Racial and Ethnic Groups textbook to read the following:
Chapter 4, “Immigration,” pages 78–102.
This chapter examines patterns of immigration to the United States, the effects of restricting immigration, current immigration policy, naturalization, and the connection between globalization and immigration.
Use the Capella library to read the following:
Ellis, B. H., Abdi, S. M., & Winer, J. P. (2020). Introduction to refugees and immigrants: Newcomers to the United States. In Mental health practice with immigrant and refugee youth: A socioecological framework (pp. 3–19). American Psychological Association.
This article examines some of the common challenges and risks refugees and immigrants face in the different stages of refugee migration: pre-migration, migration, and resettlement. It also examines the core stressors of trauma, resettlement, acculturation, and isolation, and the psychological distress that results.
Hartmann, D., Baiocchi, A., & Teresa, T. S. (2018). Navigating Americanized identities: Bicultural ethnicity, race, and the incorporation experience. Race and Social Problems, 10(4), 332–347.
The authors of this article look at the ways immigrant young adults synthesize their Americanized ethnic and racial identities and the identity narratives they develop as a result.
Kandel, W. A. (2018). A primer on U.S. immigration policy. Current Politics and Economics of the United States, Canada and Mexico, 20(2), 267–294.
This article examines the immigration policies of the United States and how those policies affect immigrants and immigration.
Saasa, S., Okech, D., Choi, Y. J., Nackerud, L., & Littleton, T. (2021). Social exclusion, mental health, and social well-being among African immigrants in the United States. International Social Work, February 2021, 1–17.
The authors of this article explore the effects of socio-cultural and structural-economic exclusion on the mental health and social well-being of African immigrants in the United States.
