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Brown School DEI Faculty Syllabus Support Guide

We have curated this section to highlight policy, public perception, and the complexities of immigration in America.

Scholarly articles
  • Bekteshi, V., & Kang, S. W. (2020). Contextualizing acculturative stress among Latino immigrants in the United States: A systematic review. Ethnicity & health, 25(6), 897-914.
  • Borges, S. (2020). “We have to do a lot of healing”: LGBTQ migrant Latinas resisting and healing from systemic violence. Journal of lesbian studies, 24(2), 94-109.
  • Chavez-Dueñas, N. Y., Adames, H. Y., Perez-Chavez, J. G., & Salas, S. P. (2019). Healing ethno-racial trauma in Latinx immigrant communities: Cultivating hope, resistance, and action. American Psychologist, 74(1), 49.
  • Ekwonye, A. U., Ezumah, B. A., & Nwosisi, N. (2021). Meaning in life and impact of COVID-19 pandemic on African immigrants in the United States. Wellbeing, Space and Society, 2.
  • Elirtl, M. M., Rentería, R., Dillon, F. R., Babino, R., De La Rosa, M., & Brenner, R. E. (2019). Longitudinal associations between marianismo beliefs and acculturative stress among Latina immigrants during initial years in the United States. Journal of counseling psychology, 66(6), 665.
  • Garcini, L. M., Rosenfeld, J., Kneese, G., Bondurant, R. G., & Kanzler, K. E. (2022). Dealing with distress from the covid‐19 pandemic: Mental health stressors and coping strategies in vulnerable Latinx communities. Health & social care in the community, 30(1), 284-294.
  • Gonzalez-Guarda, R. M., Stafford, A. M., Nagy, G. A., Befus, D. R., & Conklin, J. L. (2021). A systematic review of physical health consequences and acculturation stress among Latinx individuals in the United States. Biological Research for Nursing, 23(3), 362-374.
  • Guo, M., Steinberg, N. S., Dong, X., & Tiwari, A. (2018). A cross-sectional study of coping resources and mental health of Chinese older adults in the United States. Aging & mental health, 22(11), 1448-1455.
  • Guo, M., Kim, S., & Dong, X. (2019). Sense of filial obligation and caregiving burdens among Chinese immigrants in the United States. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 67(S3), S564-S570.
  • Lee, J., Hong, J., Zhou, Y., & Robles, G. (2020). The relationships between loneliness, social support, and resilience among Latinx immigrants in the United States. Clinical social work journal, 48, 99-109.
  • Lovato, K. (2019). Forced separations: A qualitative examination of how Latino/a adolescents cope with parental deportation. Children and Youth Services Review, 98, 42-50.
  • Morgan-Consoli, M. L., & Unzueta, E. (2018). Female Mexican immigrants in the United States: Cultural knowledge and healing. Women & Therapy, 41(1-2), 165-179.
  • Naseh, M., Ilea, P., Aldana, A., & Sutherland, I. (2023). Family separation as an oppressive tool: A scoping review of child separation from the primary caregiver as the result of migration policies. Children and Youth Services Review, 107157.
  • Omenka, O. I., Watson, D. P., & Hendrie, H. C. (2020). Understanding the healthcare experiences and needs of African immigrants in the United States: a scoping review. BMC Public Health, 20, 1-13.
  • Sangalang, C. C., Becerra, D., Mitchell, F. M., Lechuga-Peña, S., Lopez, K., & Kim, I. (2019). Trauma, post-migration stress, and mental health: A comparative analysis of refugees and immigrants in the United States. Journal of immigrant and minority health, 21, 909-919.
  • Shibusawa, T., & Mui, A. C. (2018). Stress, coping, and depression among Japanese American elders. In Social Work Practice with the Asian American Elderly (pp. 63-81). Routledge.
  • Valentín‐Cortés, M., Benavides, Q., Bryce, R., Rabinowitz, E., Rion, R., Lopez, W. D., & Fleming, P. J. (2020). Application of the minority stress theory: Understanding the mental health of undocumented Latinx immigrants. American journal of community psychology, 66(3-4), 325-336.
Books
  • Arnold, E. (2011). Working with families of African Caribbean origin: Understanding issues around immigration and attachment. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
  • Congress, E.P. (2016). Introduction: Legal and social work issues with immigrants. In F. Chang- Muy & E.P. Congress (Eds.), Social work with immigrants and refugees: Legal issues, clinical skills, and advocacy (pp. 3-42). New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.
  • Dimitrova, R., Bender, M., & Van de Vijver, F. (Eds.). (2014). Global perspectives on well-being in immigrant families (p. 17). New York, NY: Springer.
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