Papers by Marie L . Mallet-Garcia
Melanges De La Casa De Velazquez, Apr 15, 2021
This contribution examines the interplay of race and legal status in the identity formation of La... more This contribution examines the interplay of race and legal status in the identity formation of Latino migrants in the United States. It focuses on undocumented youth who have been granted temporary relief from deportation and explore how the turmoil around the program has exacerbated their intersecting vulnerabilities. This contribution discusses the importance of the legal status. I examine one aspect of migration and race that deserves more attention, which is the intersecting vulnerabiliti...
Policy Press eBooks, Jul 30, 2021
Encyclopedia of Human Services and Diversity, Nov 21, 2014
New Media and Society, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic shifted many activities online. However, there is little research on the di... more The COVID-19 pandemic shifted many activities online. However, there is little research on the digital inclusion of undocumented immigrants and their experience of the pandemic in the United States. We conducted 32 interviews with undocumented Latino immigrants in the United States to examine how digital technologies mediated their experiences of the pandemic. We find that undocumented immigrants (1) face barriers to telehealth services, (2) are at high risk of COVID-19 misinformation, (3) experience difficulties in assessing privacy risks, and (4) experienced heterogeneous outcomes of technology use during the pandemic. Our analysis shows that digital technologies both supported and further marginalized undocumented immigrants during the pandemic. Future research on the digital inclusion of vulnerable populations should pay particular attention to the interaction between their underlying vulnerabilities, on one hand, and attitudes, uses, and outcomes associated with technology, on the other.
American Behavioral Scientist, 2021
This special issue addresses the need for cross-national analyses on immigrant integration. The a... more This special issue addresses the need for cross-national analyses on immigrant integration. The articles in this issue examine the integration processes of Latino immigrants in the United States and in Spain in several aspects—socioeconomic, legal, educational, and political—and through varied methods—quantitative as well as qualitative—contributing to the literature in several ways. By focusing on the same ethnic group across different contexts, it provides a thorough comparison of the mechanisms at play in their integration processes. It emphasizes the context-specific and culture-specific elements that most affect immigrants’ integration. This special issue gathers nine articles that offer complementary perspectives on the integration of Latino immigrants in Spain and the United States.
Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, 2021
Recent events such as the Windrush scandal and the Black Lives Matter movement have sparked a glo... more Recent events such as the Windrush scandal and the Black Lives Matter movement have sparked a global conversation on racial inequality and systemic violence. There is an urgent need to critically reflect on issues of race, racialization, and ethnicity as embedded in, shaping, and transforming diverse contexts of migration and mobility across the world. This debate dossier builds upon this momentum and draws on some of the contributions from the seminar series on ‘Race, Ethnicity and Migration...
The demographic changes in American society and the rapid growth of the Latino population in the ... more The demographic changes in American society and the rapid growth of the Latino population in the United States since the 1960s have been accompanied by an increased scholarly interest for understanding the mechanisms of Latino assimilation into American society. Despite this growing interest, few studies explore the relations between the Latino national groups (pan-ethnicity) and how these interactions impact their assimilation into American society. Latinos are still frequently considered by a large portion of the literature as a monolithic group. This methodological assumption fails to acknowledge the cultural differences between the Latino groups, although Latinos themselves recognize these dissimilarities.
The socioeconomic benefits of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program initiated in 201... more The socioeconomic benefits of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program initiated in 2012 by executive order from then-president Obama have been documented in the recent literature. However, the consequences of the legal challenge brought against the program by the Trump administration have not yet been fully examined. This article analyzes qualitative data from Latino Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients in California to assess how the legal turmoil around the program is affecting their sense of belonging in the United States. We find that the uncertainty around the program has negative consequences on their sense of belonging, despite the program’s aims at improving it, and despite the respondents’ living in a rather welcoming state in terms of state-level immigration policies. Notably, we find that respondents feel increasingly alienated from and unwanted in American society and postpone major life goals.
California Journal of Politics and Policy, 2019
This paper examines the effects of the rescission announcement of the DACA program on the health ... more This paper examines the effects of the rescission announcement of the DACA program on the health outcomes of Latino DACA recipients in California. Research shows that undocumented immigrants face poorer health outcomes than their documented counterparts and U.S. citizens, and that being offered legal status (e.g. DACA) considerably improves their health outcomes. Even though studies have examined the impact of shifting legal status on incorporation, to our knowledge no studies have considered the effects of announcing the rescission of the DACA program on its recipients. However, this is important because it may have implications on their health outcomes. This study addresses this gap by using in-depth interviews with 43 Latino DACA recipients living in the California San Francisco Bay Area in 2017 and 2018. Our findings suggest that rescission announcement of DACA has led to worsening health outcomes for DACA recipients. Specifically, we find that it created what we call a state of transitory legality among the 1.5 generation, which causes DACA recipients to experience health outcomes that are worse than those before DACA. Our results are important in the field of sociology, public policy and heath care because they show the negative effects of reversing inclusionary immigration policies on the health outcomes of undocumented Latino immigrants.
Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2017
As undocumented Latino immigrants transition into adulthood, they also transition into illegality... more As undocumented Latino immigrants transition into adulthood, they also transition into illegality. They move from a somewhat protected status under which they had access to education and other social benefits, to the more vulnerable category of undocumented adults without access to social rights. How undocumented immigrants’ interactions with social services contribute to the formation of their ethnic identity and feelings of belonging to the United States is the focus of this research. Drawing on qualitative interview data from undocumented adults who grew up in the United States, this article shows that as undocumented children transition into adulthood, they face a new system that forces them to learn how to become an immigrant if they want to remain part of American society.
L’Ordinaire des Amériques, 2016
Cet article analyse la formation des reseaux sociaux dans les communautes latinos des villes de L... more Cet article analyse la formation des reseaux sociaux dans les communautes latinos des villes de Los Angeles et Miami. Afin de mieux comprendre comment les immigrants Latinos s’adaptent a la societe d’accueil, cet article propose une analyse comparative des interactions au sein des differentes communautes latinos et met en avant leur role dans la formation de reseaux sociaux chez les immigrants latinos de ces deux centres urbains. Les resultats montrent que les reseaux sociaux sont fortement tributaires des dynamiques intra ethniques et du contexte urbain ; ces reseaux, leur force et leur developpement, different entre Los Angeles et Miami en fonction de facteurs tels que le statut socioeconomique, le degre de segregation et la concordance ethnique au sein des groupes latinos.
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic shifted many activities online. However, there is little research on the di... more The COVID-19 pandemic shifted many activities online. However, there is little research on the digital inclusion of undocumented immigrants and their experience of the pandemic in the United States. We conducted 32 interviews with undocumented Latino immigrants in the United States to examine how digital technologies mediated their experiences of the pandemic. We find that undocumented immigrants (1) face barriers to telehealth services, (2) are at high risk of COVID-19 misinformation, (3) experience difficulties in assessing privacy risks, and (4) experienced heterogeneous outcomes of technology use during the pandemic. Our analysis shows that digital technologies both supported and further marginalized undocumented immigrants during the pandemic. Future research on the digital inclusion of vulnerable populations should pay particular attention to the interaction between their underlying vulnerabilities, on the one hand, and attitudes, uses, and outcomes associated with technology, on the other.
Melanges De La Casa De Velazquez, 2021
This contribution examines the interplay of race and legal status in the identity formation of La... more This contribution examines the interplay of race and legal status in the identity formation of Latino migrants in the United States. It focuses on undocumented youth who have been granted temporary relief from deportation and explore how the turmoil around the program has exacerbated their intersecting vulnerabilities. This contribution discusses the importance of the legal status. I examine one aspect of migration and race that deserves more attention, which is the intersecting vulnerabiliti...
New Media and Society, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic shifted many activities online. However, there is little research on the di... more The COVID-19 pandemic shifted many activities online. However, there is little research on the digital inclusion of undocumented immigrants and their experience of the pandemic in the United States. We conducted 32 interviews with undocumented Latino immigrants in the United States to examine how digital technologies mediated their experiences of the pandemic. We find that undocumented immigrants (1) face barriers to telehealth services, (2) are at high risk of COVID-19 misinformation, (3) experience difficulties in assessing privacy risks, and (4) experienced heterogeneous outcomes of technology use during the pandemic. Our analysis shows that digital technologies both supported and further marginalized undocumented immigrants during the pandemic. Future research on the digital inclusion of vulnerable populations should pay particular attention to the interaction between their underlying vulnerabilities, on one hand, and attitudes, uses, and outcomes associated with technology, on the other.
Mélanges de la Casa de Velazquez, 2021
Recent events such as the Windrush scandal and the Black Lives Matter movement have sparked a glo... more Recent events such as the Windrush scandal and the Black Lives Matter movement have sparked a global conversation on racial inequality and systemic violence. There is an urgent need to critically reflect on issues of race, racialization and ethnicity as embedded in, shaping and transforming diverse contexts of migration and mobility across the world. This dossier builds upon this momentum and draws on some of the contribution from the seminar series on 'Race, Ethnicity and Migration' organized by COMPAS at the University of Oxford to reflect on these issues through the prism of Hispanism. As such, the current context of a "migration crisis" in Europe lends itself well to the exercise. Since April 2015, when over 800 migrants perished in a shipwreck while crossing the Mediterranean sea, the European Union has acknowledged that there was, indeed, a migration crisis (Panebianco, 2016). This state centric language of 'crisis' however portrays the refugees and asylum seekers from Africa and the Middle East who attempt to reach Europe as being the problem (Georgi, 2019). It also diminishes the historical and structural role played by increasingly restrictive European border policies that leave migrants with few safe and legal routes to migrate (Jeandesboz & Polly Pallister-Wilkins, 2016) and the macabre spectacles of policing and violent deaths that have marked the maritime border of the Mediterranean Sea.
Books & ideas, 2014
Addressing the fragility of Latino pan-ethnicity in the U.S., Marie L. Mallet presents an overvie... more Addressing the fragility of Latino pan-ethnicity in the U.S., Marie L. Mallet presents an overview of the social interactions between Latino communities in Los Angeles, Boston and Miami, showing how these differential interactions impact on the identity formation and subsequent assimilation of Latino immigrants. The demographic changes in American society and the rapid growth of the Latino population in the United States since the 1960s have been accompanied by an increased scholarly interest for understanding the mechanisms of Latino assimilation into American society. Despite this growing interest, few studies explore the relations between the Latino national groups (pan-ethnicity) and how these interactions impact their assimilation into American society. Latinos are still frequently considered by a large portion of the literature as a monolithic group. This methodological assumption fails to acknowledge the cultural differences between the Latino groups, although Latinos themselves recognize these dissimilarities. In order to better comprehend how Latino immigrants assimilate to the host society, this essay analyzes the relations among the different Latino groups in Los Angeles, Boston and Miami and puts forward their importance on the assimilation of Latino immigrants into American society. The cultural differences between the Latino national groups and their resulting interactions (both positive and negative) are critical to understanding alliance formation and group cohesion. We therefore need to assess their incidence on their assimilation and, in turn, on the social, economic and political spheres of American society. Cultural cohesion, identity formation, and assimilation into American society Cultural cohesion, in this context, is to be understood as a set of shared cultural characteristics, an acknowledgment of similarities among the different Latino communities. I do not argue that social cohesion is a prerequisite for social integration (as do Forrest and Kearns 2001) or its opposite (as does for example Delanty 2000)-instead, cultural cohesion among Latino groups is here analyzed in order to highlight their heterogeneity and to determine how it influences their identity formation. Cohesion among the different national Latino groups is a key element of assimilation, for it fosters socially desirable outcomes such as collective action-for instance, solidarity among immigrants may lead to the creation of labor unions (Milkman 2007)-and correlates both with social mobility and a higher socioeconomic status (Brown and Brooks 2006). Studying the interactions between the Latino national groups is of renewed importance, because if the way Latinos interact with other ethnic groups influences their assimilation, we can hypothesise that interactions between national groups will also have an impact on
American Behavioral Scientist, 2021
This special issue addresses the need for cross-national analyses on immigrant integration. The a... more This special issue addresses the need for cross-national analyses on immigrant integration. The articles in this issue examine the integration processes of Latino immigrants in the United States and in Spain in several aspects-socioeconomic, legal, educational, and political-and through varied methods-quantitative as well as qualitative-contributing to the literature in several ways. By focusing on the same ethnic group across different contexts, it provides a thorough comparison of the mechanisms at play in their integration processes. It emphasizes the context-specific and culture-specific elements that most affect immigrants' integration. This special issue gathers nine articles that offer complementary perspectives on the integration of Latino immigrants in Spain and the United States.
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