The uphill climb: a transnational perspective on wealth accumulation among Latino immigrants in Durham, NC

Transnational ties and past-year major depressive episodes among Latino immigrants.

Latino immigrants live in an increasingly global world in which maintaining contact with kin in the home country is easier than ever. We examined (a) the annual distribution of remittances burden (percentage of remittances/household income) and visits to the home country, (b) the association of these transnational ties with a past-year major depressive episode (MDE), and (c) moderation by Latin...

a critical discourse analysis on gender representation in the iranian english books 2, 3 and top notch 2a, 2b a critical discourse analysis perspective

هدف از انجام تحقیق حاضر، مطالعه و بررسی نقش زنان و مردان در دو مجموعه از کتابهای درسی انگلیسی در قالب تحلیل گفتمان انتقادی و همچنین، بررسی و آشکار ساختن اصول ایدوئولوژیکی مربوط به نقش زنان و مردان در این کتابها است. این دو مجموعه کتاب عبارتنداز: کتابهای انگلیسی سال دوم و سوم دبیرستانی ایران و کتابهای تاپ ناچ 2آ و 2ب. برای انجام این منظور، مدل تحلیل گفتمان انتقادی فرکلاف مورد استفاده قرار گرفته ...

Mental health need and service use among Latino children of immigrants in the child welfare system

Do Recent Latino Immigrants Compete for Jobs

Immigrants have long been perceived to take jobs away and to push down the wages of native workers. Given that the recent bout of Latin American immigration in the 1980s and 1990s coincided with the fall in earnings and employment of the less skilled, it is not surprising that, like previous immigration waves, recent Latin American immigration is sometimes blamed for the misfortunes of less ski...

Acculturation and Mental Health among Latino and Asian Immigrants in the United States

This study assesses race-ethnic group variations in acculturation experiences by identifying distinct acculturation classes, and investigates the role of these acculturation classes for mental health and group differences in mental health among Latino and Asian immigrants in the United States. Using 2002-2003 the National Latino and Asian American Study (NLAAS), Latent Class Analysis is used to...