What is it about?
Immigrant parents and Latinx parents reported significantly greater levels of immigration threat compared to non-immigrant parents and non-Latinx parents during the 45th presidential administration. Immigration enforcement threat was associated with greater child separation anxiety and overanxious behaviors, and lower self-regulation among boys and girls in PreKindergarten.
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Why is it important?
Educators and healthcare providers working with young children from immigrant and Latinx households should be aware of the disproportionate stress experienced by immigrant and Latinx families due to a xenophobic sociopolitical climate marked by heightened immigration enforcement threat and racist, anti-immigrant rhetoric.
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Immigrant and Latinx families experience disproportionate worry related to the racialized sociopolitical climate, changes in immigration policies, national anti-immigrant rhetoric and increased immigration enforcement activity in the U.S.
R. Gabriela Barajas-Gonzalez
New York University Langone Health
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This page is a summary of: Parental perceived immigration threat and children’s mental health, self-regulation and executive functioning in pre-Kindergarten., American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, January 2022, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/ort0000591.
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