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The Legal Mexican Immigrant's Path to United States Citizenship.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Legal Mexican Immigrant's Path to United States Citizenship./
Author:	Herrera Martinez, Esther G.
Description:	1 online resource (174 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-09, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-09A.
Subject:	Public policy. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798381969436

The Legal Mexican Immigrant's Path to United States Citizenship.
Herrera Martinez, Esther G.

The Legal Mexican Immigrant's Path to United States Citizenship. - 1 online resource (174 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-09, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Walden University, 2024.

Includes bibliographical references

Economic instability and social conditions faced by immigrants from Latin American countries, including Mexico, lead them to immigrate to the United States. However, in the United States, Latin American immigrants encounter conditions that prevent them from effectively participating in society. Although most legal immigrants in the United States are from Mexico, Mexicans naturalize at slower rates than legal immigrants from other countries around the world. Using the social exclusion theory and the modern democracy theory of equal rights, this phenomenological qualitative approach sought to explore the lived experiences of Legal Permanent Residents of Mexican origin that influenced their decision to pursue United States citizenship. Purposeful and convenient participant interviews of legal Mexican immigrants seeking citizenship services at a nonprofit organization in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas were used to shed light on the barriers and facilitators that led them to seek, or not seek, U.S. citizenship. Data saturation was reached after conducting 16 open-ended interviews. Themes and codes that emerged from the data analysis confirmed the literature identifying limited English proficiency and low social economic status as the most significant barriers to naturalization. The data also confirmed the vital role non-profit organizations play in facilitating the naturalization journey. The data further identified the need for more resources to turn barriers into facilitators for seeking U.S. citizenship. Supporting the U.S citizenship journey has several implications for positive social change including a sense of security against deportation and discrimination, increased civil rights and benefits, and a diverse labor force.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798381969436Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Public policy.
Subjects--Index Terms:

ImmigrationIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

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