In the article, Community-Based Applied Research with Latino Immigrant families: Informing Practice and Research According to Ethical and Social Justice Principles, researchers conducted a culturally adapted evidence-based parenting intervention (PMTO) combined with a collaborative approach that requires equal participation from researchers and community members (CBPR) (Baumann, Domenech-Rodriguez & Parra-Cardona, 2011). Researchers utilized this integrated model to implement a research parenting intervention program adapted for Latino families within several states. This model follows the social interaction learning theory which places emphasis on child outcomes through parent-child interactions. Researchers reported many unpredictable challenges (ICE raid in Utah) that surfaced throughout the course of the research including situations and challenges that required a critical evaluation of ethical guidelines and guiding principles pertaining to the researcher’s roles of treatment provider and scientist. These challenges were faced by following ethical guidelines, theoretical models, and research methods which ensured there …show more content…
were no identifiable legal obligations, confidentiality was upheld, participants dignity and rights were upheld, and researchers maintained the highest standards and uniformity for data collection (Baumann, et al., 2011). Researchers were concerned on how to navigate both roles of treatment provider and scientist while adhering to both ethical guidelines and guiding principles of treatment provider and scientist.
According to Rubin & Babbie (2016), “Some have argued that social science and social action cannot and should not be separated” (p. 95). For this reason, researchers decided to use their power and privilege to intervene and provide assistance to the distressed Latino families. Through managing both relationships, researchers ensured the participants immediate needs were met; community resources were sought, and researchers participated in community action groups that ensured the families had food, healthcare, and supplies. Researchers also left their contact information with families in case they needed any additional assistance (Baumann et al.,
2011). The aftermath of these unpredictable challenges left researchers with the decision of whether to continue with the Utah intervention. Weighing their options, the researchers “decided to privilege continuation of the project over strict uniformity” instead of having group meetings the researchers continued assessments in the safety of the participants homes (Baumann et al., 2011, p. 138). The researchers in this study followed cultural competence through being aware and appropriately responding to cultural factors and needs of the ethnic population they were studying. They alleviated barriers and obtained endorsement and support from community leaders. Researchers were culturally sensitive and culturally biased (some being bilingual) ensuring no harm came to participants. As the researchers found, these protocols are in place to help inform ethical decisions and research approaches that ultimately helped them navigate their roles as both treatment provider and scientist. Baumann A., Rodriguez, M.D., & Parra-Cardona, J. R. (2011). Community-based applied research with Latino immigrant families: Informing practice and research according to ethical and social justice principles. Family Process, 50 (2), p132-148. Rubin, A., & Babbie, E. (2016). Essential Research Methods for Social Work (4th ed.). Belmont,CA: Brooks/Cole Cengage Learning.
Those who were affected by the testing in hospitals, prisons, and mental health institutions were the patients/inmates as well as their families, Henrietta Lacks, the doctors performing the research and procedures, the actual institutions in which research was being held, and the human/health sciences field as a whole. Many ethical principles can be applied to these dilemmas: Reliance on Scientific Knowledge (1.01), Boundaries of Competence (1.02), Integrity (1.04), Professional and Scientific Relationships (1.05), Exploitative Relationships (1.07, a), Responsibility (2.02), Rights and Prerogatives of Clients (2.05), Maintaining Confidentiality (2.06), Maintaining Records (2.07), Disclosures (2.08), Treatment/Intervention Efficacy (2.09), Involving Clients in Planning and Consent (4.02), Promoting an Ethical Culture (7.01), Ethical Violations by Others and Risk of Harm (7.02), Avoiding False or Deceptive Statements (8.01), Conforming with Laws and Regulations (9.01), Characteristics of Responsible Research (9.02), Informed Consent (9.03), and Using Confidential Information for Didactic or Instructive Purposes (9.04), and Debriefing (9.05). These particular dilemmas were not really handled until much later when laws were passed that regulated the way human subjects could be used for research. Patients
There is a large Latino population in the United States. “By mid-century, one in every four "Americans" will be able to trace their heritage to a Latin American country”(Cauce & Domenech-Rodriguez, 2000, pg.4). By the year 2050, the United States population will be 30% Hispanic. Spanish speaking Latinos are the most prominent minority in our society, and because of this it is important that people put forth effort to understand their culture, language and any drawbacks that might come with living in the larger culture. Because of the large population of Hispanics in this area, it was easy to find a family to interview. The family’s country of origin is Mexico. A large portion of the Hispanic population in the United States is from Mexico. In fact, 60% of the Hispanic population in the United States has origins in Mexico (Saracho & Spodek 2008,
As the Latino population in the United States continues to grow, U.S. Census Bureau, 2001, increasing attention is being turned toward understanding the risk and protective factors of immigrant Latino and U.S.-born Latino children and families. The demographic data relating to Latinos in the United States estimate that one of every two people added to the U.S population was Latino, in July 2009 Latino population was the fastest growing minority group U.S Census Bureau, 2010. Despite the increased risk of growing the immigrant families are in lower risk of Social Economic Status, having parents with less education and limited with language and knowledge about education. Immigrating to one place to another is often the most stressful event
Relating his personal experiences and encounters of being raised as the son of Latino immigrants within the states, readers are presented with realistic and factual accounts of Latino immigration. As a successful and renowned American journalist, Suro’s narrative was a successful, four-part exploration of Latino status, future trajectory, and points of origin. Within “Strangers Among Us”, Suro takes a look at network migration while contrasting African Americans and Latinos. In the second part, Suro analyzes and interprets Latino immigration and the reactions of Americans and other ethnicities. He then analyzes various Latino groups throughout America in six different large cities within the country before finally in part four, identifying immigration policies that he believes will work and be successful within the states. Suro’s narrative successfully analyzes and discusses many issues within Latino Immigration while giving an overview of many different Latino groups and how each group and America deal with this rising
In comparison to other migrating groups, Latinos have had different experiences that have prevented them from completely assimilating into American society. Throughout our history and presently, Latinos continue to face acts of cruelty and...
As a traditional, collectivistic cultural group, the Latino population is believed to adhere deeply to the value of familismo. (Arditti, 2006; Calzada, 2014). Familism is an emphasis on the importance of the family unit over values of autonomy and individualism”. (Santistaben, 2012). Family is considered to be the top priority in the Latino culture. Comparatively, at times, this isn’t true of our busy, work devoted western culture. In western culture we think of our family in a nuclear sense made up of a: mom, dad, and siblings. Conversely, Hispanic culture focuses on the whole extended family including aunts, uncles, grandparent, and cousins. Their culture believes having close connections with the entire extended family benefits the development of their children. The entire family helps the child by giving them differing levels of social and emotional support. (American Home Resolutions,
Affected by my family, my background, and everything around me, I was born in a family who is the first generation to get here. My grandmother, and my parents, along with some other relatives, moved here in search of better opportunities, like those from other countries for the same idea. They started out fresh but had a hard time to get started, when I was little, I assumed it had to be somewhat easy, but for people who do not know English it is like starting from scratch, but they did well, they’ve made it.
We don’t realize how hard it is for immigrant parents to get their children education, and we judge and hate on something we have never been through. I guess it’s true you never know someone’s pain unless you go through it. Not everyone has the same privileges as others, some have to work twice as hard to try to give their children an opportunity towards an education on the contrary some American families have it simpler. I not blaming people who have families who were born here or say it’s wrong, but many people tend to affront children of immigrant parents and feel like they have the equitableness to say they aren’t suitable to receive public education.
Latinos have struggled to discover their place inside of a white America for too many years. Past stereotypes and across racism they have fought to belong. Still America is unwilling to open her arms to them. Instead she demands assimilation. With her pot full of stew she asks, "What flavor will you add to this brew?" Some question, some rebel, and others climb in. I argue that it is not the Latino who willingly agreed to partake in this stew. It is America who forced her ideals upon them through mass media and stale history. However her effort has failed, for they have refused to melt.
My mother, who manage to speak broken English, and I, immigrated from Mongolia at the age of seven to meet my mother after being separated, live together now. We do not receive any help from relatives or the government. Last year, 2016, as I lived with my single mother, we truly defined the struggles of a first-generation immigrant family. She lost her job three times and each time, it made the financial burden grew to be bigger and bigger till it peered over us. The rent payments accumulated. This brought upon our family of two great difficulty to meet our daily needs such as food and even rent payments. As we were stumbling out of the debts due to unemployment, my mother got into a car accident and which helped us plummet further into poverty.
To most people ethnicity is shown by values, lifestyles, customs, and rituals that are personal to an individual ethnic group or religion. The feeling of belonging to a certain group is a basic need for mankind. In a sense, ethnicity can be separated into two particular categories, a unique social structure and culture heritage passed down from one generation to the next.
Balcazar, Fabrico et al (2012) a Case Study on Liberation among Latino Immigrant families who have children with disabilities
Previously working with pregnant and parenting teens for many years to interning in two clinical outpatient settings, I have worked a lot with Latinx clients. Though it is a wonderful population to work with, there are many barriers that make it difficult to work with them. Most clients that I have served, have been undocumented
born parents, there are several aspects to look into. In general, Latino immigrant families experience more poverty, loneliness, isolation, language difficulties, fear, and hopelessness (Dettlaff & Johnson, 2011). Other than that, Latino immigrant families also face more difficulties regarding acculturation. This is due to the changing of cultural context (Dettlaff & Johnson, 2011). As Latino families move to the U.S., they face the loss of established support systems; they are under the stress of seeking new support systems while experiencing difficulties to gain access to supportive services in the United States (Dettlaff & Johnson, 2011). On the other hand, children who are born in the families with U.S. born parents faces difference challenges. They tend to experience more discriminations towards them, more segregation, and the minority status in the United states (Dettlaff & Johnson, 2011). Children in U.S. born Latino families have a greater involvement in risky sexual behavior, and also show signs of decreasing in academic performance and increasing in school dropout rates (Dettlaff & Johnson, 2011). At the same time, U.S. born Latino children also encounter higher intergenerational-intercultural conflict (Dettlaff & Johnson, 2011). This could be due to the fact that the parents still hold some traditional values while their children are developing U.S. values from school and their peers. Conflict develops when there are disagreements regarding
In this paper we discuss why it is that teen Latino immigrants have the highest high school dropout rates. From a sociological perspective, I think it’s important to know why this particular group have the lowest educational attainment to better comprehend the challenges as well as the consequences for both the wellbeing of immigrant teens and their socioeconomic status in this country. This paper focuses on Latino immigrant teens as they represent the majority of immigrant youth in America and as a way to illustrate risk and circumstances that are potentially shared by other immigrant groups; Immigrant teens can face unique challenges related to cultural and social adaptation, language proficiency and poverty. Failure to address