Immigration concerns and social program avoidance: The roles of legal status and family composition among asian and latino communities.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Immigration policies significantly affect immigrants and their families' access to social programs. This study examines the role of legal status and familial composition in Asian and Latino adults' avoidance of social programs and assesses differences between the groups. We categorized respondents' familial composition based on whether all household members had the same citizenship status. We created two groups: respondents with cross-status ties and those without.

Methods

We use data from 1000 U.S. adults with proximal or distant ties to noncitizens (collected in September 2021) to employ multivariable generalized linear models with binomial family and logit link to assess avoidance of needed social programs due to immigration concerns.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Haro-Ramos AY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11533087 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature