TY - JOUR
T1 - Migration intentions and illicit substance use among youth in central Mexico
AU - Marsiglia, Flavio Francisco
AU - Kulis, Stephen
AU - Hoffman, Steven
AU - Caldern-Tena, Carlos Orestes
AU - Becerra, David
AU - Alvarez, Diana
N1 - Funding Information:
Stephen Kulis, Ph.D., Columbia University, 1984, is Cowden Distinguished Professor of Sociology in the School of Social and Family Dynamics at ASU, and Director of Research at the SIRC at ASU, which is a Center of Excellence funded by the NIH/National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities. His research has focused on cultural processes in health disparities, such as the role of gender and ethnic identity in youth drug use and prevention interventions; cultural adaptation of prevention programs for ethnic minority youth; on contextual neighborhood and school level influences on individual level risk and protective behaviors; on gender and racial inequities in professional careers, and the organizational sources of ethnic and gender discrimination.
Funding Information:
Ph.D., is the Distinguished Foundation Professor of Cultural Diversity and Health at the Arizona State University (ASU) School of Social Work and Director of the SIRC. SIRC is an exploratory center of excellence on minority health and health disparities research funded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In partnership with other researchers, Arizona school districts, and with support of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) of the NIH, he has developed and tested keepin’ it REAL, a substance abuse prevention Model Program for middle school students. The manualized and licensed intervention is now being implemented across the U.S. and internationally. Dr. Marsiglia was the Principal Investigator of the NIDA/NIH funded social work research infrastructure center grant, one of only seven such grants awarded to schools of social work. He coordinates an ongoing international scholars’ exchange program at SIRC and conducts research and training in partnership with colleagues in Mexico, Spain, and Tanzania. Dr. Marsiglia has authored and co-authored more than 70 peer-reviewed journal articles, numerous book chapters, and is the co-author with Dr. Stephen Kulis of a book entitled Diversity, Oppression and Change: Culturally Grounded Social Work.
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Funding for this study was provided by the Arizona State University and NIMHD/NIH. 1The reader is asked to consider that concepts and processes such as “risk” and “protective” factors are often noted in the literature, without adequately delineating their dimensions (linear, nonlinear), their “demands,” the critical necessary conditions (endogenously as well as exogenously; micro to macro levels), which are necessary for them to operate (begin, continue, become anchored and integrate, change as de facto realities change, cease, etc.) or not to operate and whether their underpinnings are theory-driven, empirically based, individual and/or systemic stakeholder-bound, historically bound, based upon “principles of faith” or what. This is necessary to clarify, if possible, whether these terms are not to remain as yet additional shibboleths in a field of many stereotypes. Editor’s note. Address correspondence to Dr. Flavio Francisco Marsiglia, Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center, Arizona State University, 411 N. Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85004; E-mail: [email protected].
PY - 2011/9/30
Y1 - 2011/9/30
N2 - This study explored intentions to emigrate and substance use among youth (ages 1424) from a central Mexico state with high emigration rates. Questionnaires were completed in 2007 by 702 students attending a probability sample of alternative secondary schools serving remote or poor communities. Linear and logistic regression analyses indicated that stronger intentions to emigrate predicted greater access to drugs, drug offers, and use of illicit drugs (marijuana, cocaine, inhalants), but not alcohol or cigarettes. Results are related to the healthy migrant theory and its applicability to youth with limited educational opportunities. The study's limitations are noted.
AB - This study explored intentions to emigrate and substance use among youth (ages 1424) from a central Mexico state with high emigration rates. Questionnaires were completed in 2007 by 702 students attending a probability sample of alternative secondary schools serving remote or poor communities. Linear and logistic regression analyses indicated that stronger intentions to emigrate predicted greater access to drugs, drug offers, and use of illicit drugs (marijuana, cocaine, inhalants), but not alcohol or cigarettes. Results are related to the healthy migrant theory and its applicability to youth with limited educational opportunities. The study's limitations are noted.
KW - Alcohol adolescents
KW - Drugs
KW - Mexico
KW - Migration
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U2 - 10.3109/10826084.2011.590957
DO - 10.3109/10826084.2011.590957
M3 - Article
C2 - 21955065
AN - SCOPUS:80053487352
SN - 1082-6084
VL - 46
SP - 1619
EP - 1627
JO - Substance Use and Misuse
JF - Substance Use and Misuse
IS - 13
ER -