title: Mixed-Status Immigrant Families in the United States: The Role of Social Justice in Intervention Research.
abstract: More than 4 million unauthorized parents of legal status children currently reside in the United States (Capps, Fix, & Zong, 2016). Developmental scientists and intervention researchers hoping to work with these mixed-status families face a myriad of challenges, largely generated from the population's policy-driven social exclusion. Despite the challenges, there is a moral imperative to work with and support parents and children currently living in mixed-status households. This chapter applies a social justice perspective, largely stemming from Prilleltensky's critical community psychological framework, to improve the relevance and usefulness of research on mixed-status families (Prilleltensky & Nelson, 1997). We discuss the utility of this social justice perspective in theory building, study design and implementation, and dissemination of findings regarding mixed-status families, with exemplars from recent research.
authors.affiliation: New York University, New York, NY, United States. Electronic address: mdw317@nyu.edu.
authors.forename: Mackenzie D M
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Whipps
authors.affiliation: New York University, New York, NY, United States.
authors.forename: Hirokazu
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yoshikawa
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005190:Family; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D010290:Parents; D012929:Psychological Distance; D011640:Public Policy; D012935:Social Justice; D000069756:Undocumented Immigrants; D014481:United States
keywords: Immigration; Intervention; Policy; Social justice; Unauthorized