The purpose of this study was to provide a comprehensive analysis of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act by examining the policy’s objectives, values, outcomes, and implications, as well as a brief historical background of public health reform and its policy developme…
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The purpose of this dissertation was to assess the health literacy in Russian-speaking immigrants from the former Soviet Union (FSU) and identify factors relevant to their health literacy. Immigrants have been shown to have lower health literacy than native-born population and e…
Among the many stressors that undocumented Latinx families experience, the current political climate has exacerbated the worries and fears about deportation and can heighten psychological distress. Although the research is minimal with undocumented Latinx, recent figures indicat…
Scholars need to explore legal status and the movement in between legal statuses as a separate phenomenon from citizenship. I develop the “legal status fluidity” framework to investigate how immigrants navigate the U.S. immigration system. I draw my analysis from 54 in-depth int…
The need for culturally competent mental health providers and the Mexican American immigrant population in the United States are growing. This study focused on themes from therapists’ narratives that may help to comprehend the intricacy of difficulties facing Mexican American ch…
With the increasingly racialized schooling and social contexts of the ongoing anti-immigrant, anti-Latinx, and xenophobic national climate, there is an urgency to examine how K-12 Ethnic Studies (ES) classrooms can support Latinx students with navigating and confronting racializ…
Defying the expectations of scholarship predicting that religion will continue to decline, religion remains an influential force that shapes the lives of everyday people. Religious beliefs and communities provide people with cultural tools to understand the world around them, sh…
The purpose of this study phenomenological study was to know the lived experiences of Latina immigrant women seeking first employment in the Southeastern US. The theoretical underpinning for the current study include Post Structural Feminist Theory and Acculturation Theory. Seve…