Antiracist activism for immigrant rights and healthy coping: Initial evidence for a community-based framework.

IF 3.4 2区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Germán A Cadenas, Melanie M Domenech Rodríguez, Luz M Garcini, Jennifer Garcia Mendoza, Beatriz Suro, Alfonso Mercado, Oscar F Rojas Perez, Amanda Venta, Thania Galvan, Oswaldo Moreno, Manuel Paris
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Abstract

Racist and xenophobic policies in the United States (e.g., family separations and lack of access to protected immigration statuses for undocumented immigrants) have historically excluded immigrants of color from accessing full civil rights, thus contributing to widening racial inequities in the US. Racism and xenophobia intersected with other systems of oppression during the COVID-19 pandemic, exposing immigrants of color to detrimental health effects. Research shows that activism helps immigrants of color cope with systemic stressors and protect their psychological well-being. In this manuscript, we introduce the antiracist activism for immigrant rights (AAIR) framework to clarify how activism in response to systemic stress may promote healthy coping. This framework was developed together by scholars and immigration activists in the US Critical and liberatory theory and research on empowerment and healing also informed AAIR. Using structural equation modeling, we tested the framework in a community sample of 204 immigrants of color. Results support the model, depicting antiracist immigration activism as a latent construct manifested as a combination of engagement in racial justice, immigrant rights, and electoral activism. Further, results support the link between antiracist immigration activism and healthy coping in response to stress from immigration and health. We provide recommendations for behavioral health professionals to promote antiracist immigration activism and healthy coping among immigrant communities.

争取移民权利的反种族主义行动与健康应对:基于社区框架的初步证据。
美国的种族主义和仇外政策(如家庭分离和无证移民无法获得受保护的移民身份)历来使有色人种移民无法获得充分的公民权利,从而加剧了美国的种族不平等。在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间,种族主义和仇外心理与其他压迫制度交织在一起,使有色人种移民的健康受到有害影响。研究表明,行动主义有助于有色人种移民应对系统性压力,保护他们的心理健康。在本文中,我们介绍了反种族主义移民权利行动主义(AAIR)框架,以阐明应对系统性压力的行动主义如何促进健康的应对。这个框架是由美国的学者和移民活动家共同开发的,批判和解放理论以及对赋权和治愈的研究也为AAIR提供了信息。利用结构方程模型,我们在204名有色人种移民的社区样本中对该框架进行了测试。结果支持该模型,将反种族主义移民激进主义描述为一种潜在的结构,表现为参与种族正义、移民权利和选举激进主义的结合。此外,研究结果支持反种族主义移民行动主义与健康应对移民和健康压力之间的联系。我们为行为健康专业人员提供建议,以促进移民社区的反种族主义移民活动和健康应对。
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6.30
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期刊介绍: The American Journal of Community Psychology publishes original quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research; theoretical papers; empirical reviews; reports of innovative community programs or policies; and first person accounts of stakeholders involved in research, programs, or policy. The journal encourages submissions of innovative multi-level research and interventions, and encourages international submissions. The journal also encourages the submission of manuscripts concerned with underrepresented populations and issues of human diversity. The American Journal of Community Psychology publishes research, theory, and descriptions of innovative interventions on a wide range of topics, including, but not limited to: individual, family, peer, and community mental health, physical health, and substance use; risk and protective factors for health and well being; educational, legal, and work environment processes, policies, and opportunities; social ecological approaches, including the interplay of individual family, peer, institutional, neighborhood, and community processes; social welfare, social justice, and human rights; social problems and social change; program, system, and policy evaluations; and, understanding people within their social, cultural, economic, geographic, and historical contexts.
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