Summary: Suicide Among Immigrants

1072 Words3 Pages
bulb-icon

Recommended: Immigrants

Numerous immigrants enter the country with cutting-edge degrees, excellent employment opportunities, and travel permits, while other immigrants enter with limited schooling (Gonzales, Suárez-Orozco, and Dedios-Sanguineti, 2013). They seek occupations in low-salary job marketplaces, and have no papers. Certain families come to the United States with traveler, educational, or provisional employment visa, nonetheless their documents expire (Gonzales et al, 2013). They are the youngsters who were transported to this nation secretly, and they are not accountable for the actions of the relatives that brought them here. There are strong repercussions for existing in obscurity (Gonzales et al, 2013). At this time, there are 2.1 million unauthorized …show more content…

The participants conveyed intense lingering illnesses, for example, high blood pressure, prolonged migraines, tooth complications, and physical discomfort (Gonzales et al, 2013). In addition, participants conveyed indicators of self-injurious actions and attempting suicide in order to elude their positions in society (Gonzales et al, 2013). A mutual characteristic shared by the majority of immigrants is that they are unable to visualize their futures (Gonzales et al, 2013). The suicide ideations experienced by these undocumented teenager were a strong reference to the impression of desperateness and depression, they encountered during the teenage years transitioned into adulthood. Their ambitions doomed by their undocumented statuses remained stagnated (Gonzales et al, 2013). Dangerous segregation, advancement from academic organizations and apprehensions about becoming grownups were all prognosticators of suicide among the respondents (Gonzales et al, …show more content…

The MLM consist of 5 phases of intervention: Phase One: Mental health and preparation (Chung et al, 2008). This phase embraces the practice of psychological-training interventions to familiarize the patient with the therapy procedure, and it provides the therapist with the freedom to inquire about the patient’s outlooks during the assisting process (Chung et al, 2008). Phase Two: Individualized, family, and treatment interventions. Therapists are confronted to adjust customary individualized, group, and everyday treatment models and methods utilized to include the family, and customs that replicate cultural understanding and esteem for migrant patients (Chung et al, 2008). Phase Three: Ethnic acceptance. Therapists utilize a wide-ranging variety of discussion and social righteousness sponsorship amenities to help migrant participants in understanding a bigger amount of collective and individual traditional liberation that leads to the advancement of a multicultural characteristic (Chung et al, 2008). This encompasses supporting these patients in educating them in different customs to dominate the difficulties of the host culture, for example, obtaining a driver’s license, knowledge on how to utilize municipal transport, and

Show More
Related

  • Analysis Of Lives In Limbo

    1022 Words  | 3 Pages

    In Lives in Limbo, Roberto G. Gonzales dissects the disastrous effects of US immigration policy on young Latina/os struggling in the often untouched, unnoticed, uncared for, American underbelly. Through a striking ethnography, Gonzalez examines 150 illuminating case-studies of young undocumented Latina/os, shedding light on their shared experience in the struggle for legitimacy in the United States - their lives, effectively, in limbo. He develops two major groups with which to classify the struggling youth: the college-goers, like Cesar, who received strong marks in high school and was able to land himself a spot within the UC system, and the early-exiters, like Silvia, who was unable to attend college, resigned to a paranoid life plagued

    Read More

  • Cultural Influences In Counseling Multicultural Clients

    600 Words  | 2 Pages

    Counselors today face the task of how to appropriately counsel multicultural clients. Being sensitive to cultural variables can be conceptualized as holding a cultural lens to human behavior and making allowances for the possibility of cultural influence. However, to avoid stereotyping, it is important that the clinician recognize the existence of within-group differences as well as the influence of the client’s own personal culture and values (Furman, Negi, Iwamoto, Shukraft, & Gragg, 2009). One’s background is not always black or white and a counselor needs to be able to discern and adjust one’s treatment plan according to their client.

    Read More

  • Illegal Immigrants: Close the Borders

    1306 Words  | 3 Pages

    Illegal immigration has been a problem that has plagued the United States for many years. This problem is not new to the country because thousands of immigrants have crossed over the oceans and Mexican border since our country was founded. The underlying problem is the lack of assimilation to the American ways of life and the acceptance of existing rules and laws. With the already fragile economy and the largely growing unemployment rate Americans must make every effort to close its borders to undocumented workers to ease the strain and retain any available jobs for unemployed Americans and legal workers. Aviva Chomsky writes “immigration plays a much more complex role in the employment picture, and many different factors affecting employment and unemployment.”(4). Chomsky so on to say, “it indeed seems to be the case that immigrants and low-skilled citizens are competing for the same jobs”(11). Hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants enter the country and start working either under illegal names or take agricultural jobs in which they are paid under the table. Chomsky solidifies this fact when she say “some immigrants work in the informal economy, and are paid under the table in-cash, so they don’t have federal and state income taxes, or social security taxes, deducted from their paychecks”(36).Which a lot of employers are catching on to because on doing this they don’t have to pay taxes and can turn more of a profit This also hurts the country’s economy because no one is paying their taxes and so there is no money flowing to pull the country out of the current recession. This burden indefinitely falls on the shoulders of the rest of the legal citizens of America who are inevitable paying the way for this one sided labor for...

    Read More

  • Struggles and Hopes in the Mexican Immigrant Journey

    1284 Words  | 3 Pages

    For many Mexican immigrants, crossing the border into the land of freedom and the American dream is no easy task. Some immigrants come over illegally by means of hiding in cars to cross borders, using visitor visas to stay longer, marrying to become citizens, and having babies as ‘anchors’ to grant automatic citizenship. Other immigrants gain green cards and work visas and work their way into becoming US citizens legally and subsequently gaining citizenship through paperwork for their families back home. After escaping harsh living and working conditions in Mexico, immigrants come to America prepared to gain education, opportunity, and work. This American dream unfortunately does not come to pass for most.

    Read More

  • Illegal Immigration in America

    1545 Words  | 4 Pages

    Out of the 11 million illegal immigrants currently residing in the United States, 8 million of them are currently working. Employers in America who want inexpensive workers, hire illegal immigrants and pay them under the table. Since the system does not have an efficient way of identifying and penalizing these employers, this has been an ongoing dilemma. As a result, the American economy suffers because illegal immigrants are not paying taxes like the rest of the legal citizens. Americans who are citizens consequently have difficulties finding jobs because employers would rather pay under the table so they can make higher profits. In my perspective, the employers are at fault here if they knowingly hire workers who are not eligible to work here. However, if the employer did not know about an immigrant’s illegal status than the immigrant is at fault for cheating the system. These are just some of the current issues related to illegal immigration t...

    Read More

  • Depression in the Latino Community

    1443 Words  | 3 Pages

    The main question I want to focus on is, what are the many reasons Latinos who have immigrated to the United States fall into depression? In order to answer my major question, I want to discover information I don’t know about yet, find statistics, and possibly resolutions to better improve Latino mental health. I became interested in the topic of depression among the Latino community because I know and have met many other Latinos suffering from major depression. From the people I have met throughout my life, I have been able to recap the reasons why they have fallen into depression. The first reason being that once they arrive in the United States they find themselves all alone suffering in a country they thought of so differently....

    Read More

  • How Immigrants Became Summary

    685 Words  | 2 Pages

    In Marcelo M. Suarez- Orozco and Carola Suarez- Orozco’s article “How Immigrants became “other” Marcelo and Carola reference the hardships and struggles of undocumented immigrants while at the same time argue that no human being should be discriminated as an immigrant. There are millions of undocumented people that risk their lives by coming to the United States all to try and make a better life for themselves. These immigrants are categorized and thought upon as terrorist, rapists, and overall a threat to Americans. When in reality they are just as hard working as American citizens. This article presents different cases in which immigrants have struggled to try and improve their life in America. It overall reflects on the things that immigrants go through. Immigrants come to the United States with a purpose and that is to escape poverty. It’s not simply crossing the border and suddenly having a great life. These people lose their families and go years without seeing them all to try and provide for them. They risk getting caught and not surviving trying to make it to the other side. Those that make it often don’t know where to go as they are unfamiliar. They all struggle and every story is different, but to them it’s worth the risk. To work the miserable jobs that Americans won’t. “I did not come to steal from anyone. I put my all in the jobs I take. And I don’t see any of the Americans wanting to do this work” (668). These

    Read More

  • The Effect of Illegal Immigration on the US Economy

    892 Words  | 2 Pages

    The United States of America, being a country founded by immigrants, is known all over the world as the land of great opportunities. People from all walks of life travelled across the globe, taking a chance to find a better life for them and their family. Over the years, the population of immigrants has grown immensely, resulting in the currently controversial issue of illegal immigration. Illegal immigrants are the people who have overstayed the time granted on their US, visa or those who have broken the federal law by crossing the border illegally. Matt O’Brien stated in his article “The government thinks that 10.8 million illegal immigrants lived in the country in January 2009, down from a peak of nearly 12 million in 2007.”(Para, 2).

    Read More

  • Illegal Immigration and the Destruction of America

    1318 Words  | 3 Pages

    There are three different types of illegal immigrants: fraudulent entrants, visa abusers, and those who enter without inspection (EWIs). Eighty percent of illegals run the border and are known as EWIs (Anderson 54). When people hear the term “illegal immigrant” this is the type people typically think of. Some illegal immigrants are "visa abusers" who overstay their visas (Anderson 54). The Department of Homeland Security estimates that 300,000 people overstay their visas every year (Marcovitz 30). The other type of illegal alien is a "fraudulent entrant" who pays a fortune for forged documents (Anderson 55). Because illegals usually have very little money, this method is the...

    Read More

  • Persuasive Essay On The DREAM Act

    1277 Words  | 3 Pages

    Most of the United States (U.S) is comprised of immigrants—including those who have migrated to the States from another country and those whose ancestors freely travelled to the States in search of a fresh start. Every year, the U.S. grants a limited number of people around the world the opportunity to immigrate to the States each year. As a result of the restriction, citizens from neighboring countries cross the border illegally. According to an article by Jens Manuel Krogstad, 11.3 million unauthorized immigrants reside in the U.S. in 2014. This whopping number has stirred controversy both politically and economically for America’s government officials. As a result, many people argue whether illegal immigrants should or should not be aided

    Read More

  • essay

    803 Words  | 2 Pages

    It is important to include cultural issues in the helping process to be more effective. We also need cultural competence because the U.S. is becoming more diverse. Therefore with diversity comes different beliefs, norms, and values. Eurocentric values dominate sciences and began cultural universals which puts the clash of dominate and non-dominate cultural behaviors in motion. In 1996 the NASW Code of Ethics increased the recognition of cultural competence. It is important to know diversity exist within ethnic and cultural groups because social workers need to know that relationships between helping professionals and clients may be strained. This happens because of the distrust between groups. Another important aspect is that the professional realizes their own values, biases, and beliefs. The reason for this is because they must value diversity to start with and understand the dynamics of difference. Culturally competent practitioners have to go through developmental process of using their own culture as a starting point to meet all behaviors. Striving for cultural competence is a long term process of development. The literature on cultural competence is theoretical and conceptual. They have not been evaluated in a systematic way. Roughly there are 2 million Native americans in the U.S. Which survive decimating disease, over-repressed in child welfare system, suffer from health problems, and are among the poorest people in the United States. Working with them clearly falls within the social work clearly mandate to serve vulnerable and oppressed clients. However, we do not know how many people from this group is actually receiving help from social workers. Even though it is important to train social workers to provide care in th...

    Read More

  • Mae Ngai Impossible Subjects Summary

    1950 Words  | 4 Pages

    Ngai, Mae M. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America. Princeton, N.J. [u.a.: Princeton Univ. Press, 2004. Print.

    Read More

  • Undocumented Immigrants Should NOT Receive Public Assistance

    1953 Words  | 4 Pages

    There are over twelve million undocumented immigrants living in the United States. Many came to America to work, go to school, or be reunited with family members who are already residing here. Most migrants want to work and pursue the “American dream”. There are many barriers for residents to achieving success at the work and life balance. The immigrants fall back on public assistance to support them.

    Read More

  • Analysis Of Illegal Immigration In Enrique's Journey

    1028 Words  | 3 Pages

    Illegal immigration has been an issue in this country since its founding. However, in recent years, more and more people are deciding that the conditions in their native countries are too dangerous and impossible to overcome, so they decide to take on the journey to try and enter the United States, “the land of opportunity”, without the proper documentation. In the novel Enrique’s Journey, by Sonia Nazario, we see first hand the expedition many of these people take in order to fulfill their dreams of helping the families they leave behind. Many of these people, like Lourdes and Enrique, come thinking that the “American Dream” will be easily obtained through hard work. Unfortunately, times have changed, and this promise of riches is no longer the norm. Those undocumented immigrants that are lucky enough to make it to the United States are faced with a harsh hit of reality when they realize that the perception they had build of America, with an abundance of jobs, is actually flooded by poverty and an unsteady job market.

    Read More

  • Diversity and Cultural Competence in Family Therapy

    1048 Words  | 3 Pages

    Culture can be defined as behaviors exhibited by certain racial, religious, social or ethnic groups. Some factors in which culture may vary include: family structure, education, and socioeconomic status (Kodjo, 2009). Some may think cultural competence is something that has an end point, however, when the big picture is seen, it is a learning process and journey. From the writer’s perspective, the client-therapist relationship can be challenging. Culturally competent therapists must realize that behaviors are shaped by an individual’s culture. Many changes are taking place within the United States cultural makeup. Therapists and healthcare professionals are being challenged to provide effective and sensitive care for patients and their families. This type of culturally sensitive care requires the professional to be open and seek understanding in the patients diverse belief systems (Kodjo, 2009).

    Read More

More about Summary: Suicide Among Immigrants

Open Document