Pandemic Precarity: COVID-19's Impact on Mexican and Central American Immigrant Families.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The study examines the association of gender, parenthood, and marriage with reports of perceived pandemic precarity among Mexican and Central American immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic (Fall 2020) to understand predictors of vulnerability in periods of crisis.

Background

Latinos/as, immigrants, parents, and women have faced significant challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. Family structure, along with social expectations for gender (i.e., self-sacrificing femininity for women and hegemonic masculinity for men), parenthood, and marriage may explain perceptions of pandemic precarity - defined as the material deprivation and economic anxiety resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Method

This study used data from the Hispanic COVID-19 Rapid Response Stud

SUBMITTER: Garcia MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10720736 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature