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Article
Coping Immigrants México-United States as an Agent of Change: From Risk to Protection Factors
Author(s)
Angélica Ojeda García, Alma Polo Velázquez
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5542/2011.05.002
Affiliation(s)
Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico
ABSTRACT
Migration
is a process that can be seen threatened or obstructed by diverse factors of
risk. Its experience and survival by definition implies change. A decisive
factor to achieve the good operation and the adaptation to a new culture is the
confrontation strategies development. The objective of the present investigation
was to identify which the confrontation strategies are used by migrants, to
explore which the perception and appraisal that do of the risks are; as well as
to evaluate the existing relation among both, as a way to observe the level of
adaptation achieved by in a sample of 157 Mexican migrants in the United States
(Riverside, L.A., C.A.), to whom applied the risk and protection factors scales
(Dominguez & Polo, in press) and the multi-dimensional and multi-situational
of coping scale (Gongora & Reyes, 1998) in short version and under a cuanti-cuali
model. The results permitted to appreciate that in the case of the problem solution,
strategies of the daily life are the five factors of the risk and protection
factors scale; while are six factors of the coping styles scale that explain
the 64.43% of the variance. With these results, we will do other analyses that
show the more abuses, family vulnerability, discrimination, difficulties in the
management of the language and the fear of deportation are perceived, the less
they resort to direct strategies and spreads in greater measure to passive
strategies and the perception of the social support is lower. The adaptative
confrontation strategies development (directs and actives) can help the migrant
population to face in a more efficient way the risks that are seen exposed and
serve as protection factors.
KEYWORDS
coping, risk factors, protection factors, migrants
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