Violence Against Latina Immigrants

Violence Against Latina Immigrants
Author: Roberta Villalon
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2010-06-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0814788262

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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.

Violence Against Latina Immigrants

Violence Against Latina Immigrants
Author: Roberta Villalon
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2010-06-07
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0814788246

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"A meaningful documentation of the ways in which structural and cultural conditions in current immigration and violence against women laws in the United States reinforce the hierarchies and intersections of race, class, and heterosexuality that impact on the lives of battered Latina immigrants."---Natalie J. Sokoloff, author of Domestic Violence at the Margins: Readings in Race, Class, Gender, and Culture --

Remaking Citizenship

Remaking Citizenship
Author: Kathleen Coll
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2010-02-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0804773696

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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.

Domestic Violence Among Undocumented Latina Immigrants

Domestic Violence Among Undocumented Latina Immigrants
Author: Ana I. Quiroz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 69
Release: 2016
Genre: Fund raising
ISBN: 9781339638232

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Abstract: The purpose of this project was to locate a potential funding source and write a grant for a comprehensive case management program to provide culturally sensitive services for Latina immigrant victims of domestic violence in Sonoma County. An extensive literature review helped to identify the needs and barriers to and gaps in support services for Latina immigrants, especially those with undocumented status. The Office of Violence Against Women, Culturally Specific Services Grant was selected as the best fit. The program aims to end the cycle of violence and remove service barriers through bilingual services, psychoeducation, and legal and immigration advocacy that promote self-sufficiency and permanent solutions. The program is expected to increase women safety options, legal rights, knowledge of local resources, and access to formal support systems. No woman regardless of her age, ethnicity, culture, language skills, immigration, or socioeconomic status should live in the shadows of domestic violence.

Latino Homicide

Latino Homicide
Author: Ramiro Martinez, Jr.
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2014-10-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317689348

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Latino Homicide is the first empirically based, but readable book for courses to counter the conventional wisdom that immigrant populations only contribute crime to their communities. For this second edition, Martinez further emphasizes his argument with updated data and the addition of a new city, San Antonio. With fascinating case studies from police reports and actual cases from six varied cities, Latino homicide rates are revealed to be markedly lower than one would expect, given the economic deprivation of these urban areas. Far from dangerous or criminal, these communities often have exceptionally strong social networks precisely because of their shared immigrant experiences. Martinez skillfully refutes negative stereotypes in a coherent and critically rigorous analysis of the issues.

The Handbook of Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice

The Handbook of Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice
Author: Ramiro Martinez, Jr.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 582
Release: 2018-09-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1119114012

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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.

Barrio America

Barrio America
Author: A. K. Sandoval-Strausz
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2019-11-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1541644433

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The compelling history of how Latino immigrants revitalized the nation's cities after decades of disinvestment and white flight Thirty years ago, most people were ready to give up on American cities. We are commonly told that it was a "creative class" of young professionals who revived a moribund urban America in the 1990s and 2000s. But this stunning reversal owes much more to another, far less visible group: Latino and Latina newcomers. Award-winning historian A. K. Sandoval-Strausz reveals this history by focusing on two barrios: Chicago's Little Village and Dallas's Oak Cliff. These neighborhoods lost residents and jobs for decades before Latin American immigration turned them around beginning in the 1970s. As Sandoval-Strausz shows, Latinos made cities dynamic, stable, and safe by purchasing homes, opening businesses, and reviving street life. Barrio America uses vivid oral histories and detailed statistics to show how the great Latino migrations transformed America for the better.

Gendered Journeys: Women, Migration and Feminist Psychology

Gendered Journeys: Women, Migration and Feminist Psychology
Author: Oliva M. Espín
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2015-06-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137521473

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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.

Latino Criminalization. Illegal Immigration and Crime in the US

Latino Criminalization. Illegal Immigration and Crime in the US
Author: Demetrius Goncalves
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2020-09-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3346243990

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Academic Paper from the year 2016 in the subject Sociology - Law and Delinquency, grade: 10.0, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - Newark (School of Criminal Justice), course: Racial, Ethnic and Religious Diversity and Public Policy in America, language: English, abstract: This research paper examines the relationship of undocumented Latinos to crime in the United States. Many empirical studies in the past years argued that undocumented immigrants have been a reason in the decrease in crime rates over the past forty years. Communities with a high number of undocumented immigrants tend to have very low crime rates compared to those of native-born Americans. Already deteriorated neighbourhoods, where undocumented newcomers establish their homes, show a significant decrease in crime. Both the spur of immigration and the decrease in crime rates have run parallel to each other since the 1980s. However, in the last decade, a mass incarceration of undocumented Latinos was found in the U.S. corrections system due to an overwhelming target of minority groups and tough legislations passed by the U.S. government.

Captivity Beyond Prisons

Captivity Beyond Prisons
Author: Martha D. Escobar
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2016-03-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1477309012

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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.