Acculturative stress, anxiety, and depression among Mexican Immigrant farm workers in Arizona, New Mexico and California

Abstract

The research aims to understand the acculturative stress, anxiety, and depression among Mexican Immigrant farm workers in Arizona, New Mexico and California. This will be done by conducting a thorough research of available literature to form the basis of research and understanding of the topic. The research will review a large number of litterateurs which were previously published on the subject to be able to come to a better finding, and use them to generate a solid finding. This information will be used to identify the different factors and effect of the acculturative stress, anxiety, and depression among Mexican Immigrant farm workers in Arizona, New Mexico and California

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABSTRACTII

CHAPTER 01: INTRODUCTION1

Introduction1

Background1

Attractor Factor2

Push factor2

Globalization2

Characteristics of Migrant Farm Workers in reference to previous researches3

Layoffs and repatriations4

Mexican immigrant to the US5

Governmental support from the Mexican Government6

Influence of NAFTA6

Immigrants in the U.S8

Anxiety disorder9

Anxiety Risk Factors9

Stress10

Stress Situation11

Acculturation11

Acculturative Stress12

Depression13

Research Overview14

Research Design14

Descriptive Research15

Exploratory Research15

Research Question15

Research objectives16

Variables16

Dependent Variable16

Independent Variable16

Moderating Variables17

Research questions17

Hypothesis17

REFERENCES19

CHAPTER 01: INTRODUCTION

Introduction

The research aims to understand the acculturative stress, anxiety, and depression among Mexican Immigrant farm workers in Arizona, New Mexico and California. This will be done by conducting a thorough research of available literature to form the basis of research and understanding of the topic. The information and understanding that will be reached by reviewing literature will be used to design questionnaires to elicit a more specified response to come to a better understanding. Keeping this in mind, the research will focus on a quantitative study enabling a much specified understanding of the topic. The research will be related to immigrant farm workers especially in the proximity of Arizona, New Mexico and California, establishing the scope of the research. For the research to be authentic and accurate, it is important to know about the topic in sufficed details (Espin. M. 1987).

Background

According to Wong, P. T., Wong, L. C., & Lonner, W. J. 2006, 1985 not all immigrants are farm workers and not all farm workers are immigrants. But, as evidenced by the information below, our agricultural system has always depended on the work of displaced persons who have not had the advantage of being full citizens of this country-whether people forced to work under contract, slaves, sharecroppers or undocumented immigrants.

Attractor Factor

According to Wong, P. T., Wong, L. C., & Lonner, W. J. 2006, agriculture is one of the most dangerous and poorly paid sectors in the United States, the agricultural industry of the United States cannot recruit people to fill these vacancies indispensable. Rather than raise wages and improve conditions in the camps, the industry recruits workers abroad where labor is more, fewer jobs and wages are much lower. Workers also are attracted to work in the United States promising a better life for themselves or their children: the "American Dream."

Push factor

According to Heras, J. M., & Coulter, J. D. 2010, many people in developing countries live in abject poverty and face a lack of jobs, natural disasters, ...