In case you are interested in seeing the research behind this website, here is a list of some references, divided by topic:

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PREJUDICE & DISCRIMINATION:

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Ayón, C., Valencia-Garcia, D., & Kim, S. H. (2017). Latino immigrant families and

restrictive in SLR immigration climate: Perceived experiences with discrimination, a threat to family, social exclusion, children’s vulnerability, and related factors. Race and Social Problems, 9(4), 300–312. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12552-017-9215-z

 

Peguero, A. A. (2008). Is immigrant status relevant in school violence research? An

analysis with Latino students. Journal of School Health. 78:397–404.

 

Peguero, A. A. (2009). Victimizing the Children of Immigrants: Latino and Asian

American Student Victimization. Youth Soc. 41: 186–208. 31.

 

Pottie, K., Dahal, G., Georgiades, K., Premji, K., & Hassan, G. (2015).

Do First Generation Immigrant Adolescents Face Higher Rates of Bullying, Violence and Suicidal Behaviours Than Do Third Generation and Native Born? Journal of Immigrant Minority Health, 17, pp. 1557–1566. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-014-0108-6

 

Priest, N., Paradies, Y., Trenerry, B., Truong, M., Karlsen, S., & Kelly, Y. (2013). A

systematic review of studies examining the relationship between reported racism and health and wellbeing for children and young people. Social Science & Medicine, 95 (10), 115-127, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.11.031

 

Sanchez, D., Whitney, N.A., Arango, S.C., and Flannigan, A.E. (2018). Ethnic

Microaggressions, Coping Strategies, and Mental Health in Asian American and Latinx American College Students: A Mediation Model. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 65(2), pp. 214 –225. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/cou0000249

 

Tsukamoto, S., & Fiske, S. T. (2018). Perceived threat to national values in evaluating

stereotyped immigrants. Journal of Social Psychology, 158(2), 157–172.

https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2017.1317231

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RACIAL IDENTITY:

 

Daniel, G. R. (2022). Multiracial Identities in the United States: Towards the Brazilian or

South African Paths? Social Sciences 11: 204. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11050204

 

Ewing, K. P. (2005). Immigrant Identities and Emotions. In A companion to

psychological anthropology : modernity and psychocultural change. Blackwell Publ., pp. 226-240.

 

Fritz, C. (2011). Brazilian immigration and the quest for identity (part of series, The new

Americans: Recent Immigration and American society; S. J. Gold & R. G.

Rumbaut series editors). Scholarly Publishing LLC.

 

Fritz, C. (2015) Redefining Racial Categories: The Dynamics of Identity Among

Brazilian-Americans. Immigrants & Minorities, 33:1, 45-65, https://doi.org/ 10.1080/02619288.2014.909732

 

Guimarães, A. S. A. (2012). The Brazilian system of racial classification. Ethnic and

Racial Studies, 35(7), pp. 1157-1162

 

Halpern, C., Austin Ward, Z., and Aydin, H. (2022). “I’m Brazilian, Not Brazilian

American”: The Experiences of Second-Generation Brazilian Adolescents Preserving Their Heritage Language and Resisting Assimilation. International Journal of Multicultural Education 24(1)

 

Marrow, H. (2003). To be or not to be (Hispanic or Latino): Brazilian racial and ethnic

identity in the United States. Ethnicities, 3(4), 427-464. https://doi.org/

10.1177/1468796803003004001

 

McDonnell, J., & de Lourenço, C. (2009). “You’re Brazilian, right? What kind of

Brazilian are you? The racialization of Brazilian immigrant women.” Ethnic and Racial Studies, 32(2), 2009, pp. 239-56.  https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870802361328

 

Schut, R. A. (2021). “New White Ethnics” or “New Latinos”?: Hispanic/Latino Pan

-Ethnicity and Ancestry Reporting among South American Immigrants to the United States. International Migrations, 55(4): 1061–1088. https://doi.org/10.1177/0197918321993100

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MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES:

 

Abebe, D. S., Elstad, J. I., & Lien, L. (2018). Utilization of somatic specialist services

among psychiatric immigrant patients: the Norwegian patient registry study. BMC Health Services Research, 18(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-018-3672-y

 

Akinsulure-Smith, A. M. (2017). Resilience in the face of adversity: African immigrants'

mental health needs and the American transition. Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 15(4), 428-448. https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2016.1238989

 

Alegría, M., Álvarez, K., & DiMarzio, K. (2017). Immigration and mental health. Current

Epidemiology Reports, 4(2), 145–155. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40471-017-

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Chisolm , D.J., Mulatu, M.S., & Brown, J.R. (2009). Racial/ethnic disparities in the

patterns of co-occurring mental health problems in adolescents in substance abuse treatment. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 37: 203–10.

 

Demyttenaere, K., Bruffaerts, R., Posada-Villa, J., Gasquet, I., Kovess, V., Lepine, J.P.,

Angermeyer, M.C., Bernert, S., de Girolamo, G., & Morosini, P. (2004). Prevalence, severity, and unmet need for treatment of mental disorders in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys. JAMA, 291(21):2581–90.

 

Lazar-Neto, F., Louzada, A.C.S., de Moura, R.F., Calixto, F.M., & Castro, M.C. (2018).

Depression and its correlates among the Brazilian Population in Massachusetts, USA. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 20(4), 832-840. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-017-0632-2

 

Sánchez, M., Cardemil, E., Adams, S. T., Calista, J. L., Connell, J., DePalo, A., Ferreira, J.,

Gould, D., Handler, J. S., Kaminow, P., Melo, T., Parks, A., Rice, E., & Rivera, I. (2014). Brave new world: Mental health experiences of Puerto Ricans, immigrant Latinos, and Brazilians in Massachusetts. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 20(1), 16–26. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0034093

 

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 & Minority Health, 21(5), 909–919. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-018-0826-2

 

Stronks, K., Şekercan, A., Snijder, M. ,Lok, A., Verhoeff, A.P., and Kunst, A. E. (2020).

Higher prevalence of depressed mood in immigrants’ offspring reflects their social conditions in the host country: The HELIUS study. PLoSONE15(6): e0234006. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0234006