Download or read book Food Insecurity Among Hispanics and Immigrants in the U S written by Devin Powers and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food-insecure households have difficulty at some time during the year in providing enough food for all their members due to a lack of resources. In 2014, 14.0 percent of all U.S. households were food insecure, versus 22.4 percent of Hispanic households. This book estimates the extent and severity of food insecurity across diverse groups of Hispanic households using 2011-2014 data from the Current Population Survey's Food Security Supplement. Furthermore, this book analyzes immigrant families' Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participation and food insecurity, using the Food Security Supplement of the Current Population Survey, 2003-10.
Download or read book Food Security Among Hispanic Adults in the United States 2011 2014 written by Matthew P. Rabbitt and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Food Insecurity Among Immigrants and Racial ethnic Minorities in the United States written by Ana Maria McCormick and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food insecurity is a lingering problem in the United States, with numerous implications including compromised diet quality, psychological distress, malnutrition, and hunger. The literature indicates that the prevalence of food security is disproportionate between racial/ethnic groups, with blacks and Latinos experiencing higher rates than non-Latino whites. Using new assimilation theory as a theoretical framework, this study investigates the relationship between food insecurity and immigrant status and race/ethnicity. Race/ethnicity is a central component in this study, as immigrants encounter racial/ethnic boundaries upon their arrival to the United States that may affect food security. Using the 2007-2010 waves of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, I find that when socioeconomic status is held constant, white immigrants are not statistically different than white citizens, but black citizens and Latinos, who have relatively similar rates of food insecurity, are more likely to be food insecure than white citizens. Black immigrants are much more likely to be food insecure than any of the other groups. The results confirm that immigrant and racial/ethnic disparities in food security exist in the United States and there is a clear immigrant and racial/ethnic hierarchy. The results have implications for food assistance policies and indicate a continuing pattern of racial/ethnic inequality in the United States.
Download or read book Contextual Influences on Household and Child Food Security Among Mexican origin Mothers of Young Children written by Amanda C. McClain and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food insecurity is related to numerous poor health and development outcomes, particularly in children. A greater proportion of Hispanic households in the U.S. experience food insecurity compared to non-Hispanic white households, but there is little evidence about distinctions between Hispanic ethnic subgroups in regards to food insecurity prevalence and coping strategies. Considering that Mexicanorigin and Mexican American Hispanics are the largest Hispanic subgroup in the U.S. and that the majority of children living in poverty are Hispanic with at least one Mexican-origin parent, more research is needed to understand their distinct risk factors, as well as their immigrant experience and coping strategies, and how these relate to food security status. To date, there are no published data on food provisioning related to food security among Mexican-origin households in the northeast U.S. nor are there data that account for both the immigrant's life course and current ecological system in the U.S. The purpose of this research was to capture multiple levels of influence on household and child food security status and related coping strategies among Mexican-origin households with children, using a mixed-methods approach guided by two theoretical constructs: life course perspective and ecological systems theory. Analyses of national survey data revealed that among all Hispanic households in the U.S., Mexican- and Salvadoran-origin households are most at risk and Cuban-origin are least at risk, compared to U.S.origin Hispanic households. In addition, among U.S.-origin Hispanic households, those with Mexican and Puerto Rican nativity (maternal origin) are most at risk and those with Cuban nativity are least at risk, compared to Hispanics with U.S.origin maternal nativity. In addition, our qualitative findings suggest that recent, low-income Mexican-origin mothers rely on culture and life course experiences, particularly those in Mexico, to shape how they feed their families and children in the U.S. These food-provisioning strategies exhibit important attributes of mothers towards maintaining a food secure household, particularly behaviors related to food resource management and planning. Understanding these multi-level contextual influences on Mexican-origin households provides valuable insight into ways to facilitate protective coping strategies through culturally-tailored programming at both federal and local levels.
Download or read book Food Security Among Hispanic Adults in the United States 2011 2014 written by Matthew P. Rabbitt and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hunger written by Michael R. Wilson and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2009-08-15 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses hunger in the United States, including the causes for food insecurity, its link to poverty and homelessness, and future solutions to the issue.
Download or read book The Unending Hunger written by Megan A. Carney and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-01-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on ethnographic fieldwork from Santa Barbara, California, this book sheds light on the ways that food insecurity prevails in womenÕs experiences of migration from Mexico and Central America to the United States. As women grapple with the pervasive conditions of poverty that hinder efforts at getting enough to eat, they find few options for alleviating the various forms of suffering that accompany food insecurity. Examining how constraints on eating and feeding translate to the uneven distribution of life chances across borders and how Òfood securityÓ comes to dominate national policy in the United States, this book argues for understanding womenÕs relations to these processes as inherently biopolitical.
Download or read book Associations of Food Insecurity Socioeconomic Status and Type 2 Diabetes Among Mexican Americans and Non hispanic Whites in the United States written by Seo Yeon Jang and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexican Americans are the largest segment of Hispanics in the United States of America (U.S.). Hispanics and Mexican Americans are more likely to have higher rates of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and its risk factors such as obesity, physical inactivity, low socioeconomic status (SES), and food insecurity compared to non-Hispanic Whites (NHW). However, the research looking into the associations between these risk factors and T2D, and the potential racial/ethnic differences is limited. This study examined whether food insecurity was related to T2D independently of low SES and a wide range of T2D risk factors among Mexican Americans and non-Hispanic Whites (NHW) in a nationally representative sample in the U.S. About 12,944 adults, including 2,955 Mexican Americans and 6,363 non-Hispanic Whites, 20-84yr, from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 1999-2004 were included in the analyses. Multivariate logistic regression analyses indicated that participants with marginal or very low food security (vs. high food security) at the household level were more likely to have T2D after adjusting for education, employment, poverty, race/ethnicity, age, gender, and country of birth (p
Download or read book Women Redefining the Experience of Food Insecurity written by Janet Page-Reeves and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women Redefining the Experience of Food Insecurity: Life Off the Edge of the Table is about understanding the relationship between food insecurity and women’s agency. The contributors explore both the structural constraints that limit what and how much people eat, and the myriad ways that women creatively and strategically re-structure their own fields of action in relation to food, demonstrating that the nature of food insecurity is multi-dimensional. The chapters portray how women develop strategies to make it possible to have food in the cupboard and on the table to be able to feed their families. Exploring these themes, this book offers a lens for thinking about the food system that incorporates women as agentive actors and links women’s everyday food-related activities with ideas about food justice, food sovereignty, and food citizenship. Taken together, the chapters provide a unique perspective on how we can think broadly about the issue of food insecurity in relation to gender, culture, inequality, poverty, and health disparity. By problematizing the mundane world of how women procure and prepare food in a context of scarcity, this book reveals dynamics, relationships and experiences that would otherwise go unremarked. Normally under the radar, these processes are embedded in power relations that demand analysis, and demonstrate strategic individual action that requires recognition. All of the chapters provide a counter to caricatured notions that the choices women make are irresponsible or ignorant, or that the lives of women from low-income, low-wealth communities are predicated on impotence and weakness. Yet, the authors do not romanticize women as uniformly resilient or consistently heroic. Instead, they explore the contradictions inherent in the ways that marginalized, seemingly powerless women ignore, resist, embrace and challenge hegemonic, patriarchal systems through their relationship with food.
Download or read book Hungry at Home written by Jennifer Kasper and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Food and Poverty written by Leslie Hossfeld and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food insecurity rates, which skyrocketed with the Great Recession, have yet to fall to pre-recession levels. Food pantries are stretched thin, and states are imposing new restrictions on programs like SNAP that are preventing people from getting crucial government assistance. At the same time, we see an increase in obesity that results from lack of access to healthy foods. The poor face a daily choice between paying bills and paying for food.
Download or read book Children of Immigrants written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-11-12 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immigrant children and youth are the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population, and so their prospects bear heavily on the well-being of the country. Children of Immigrants represents some of the very best and most extensive research efforts to date on the circumstances, health, and development of children in immigrant families and the delivery of health and social services to these children and their families. This book presents new, detailed analyses of more than a dozen existing datasets that constitute a large share of the national system for monitoring the health and well-being of the U.S. population. Prior to these new analyses, few of these datasets had been used to assess the circumstances of children in immigrant families. The analyses enormously expand the available knowledge about the physical and mental health status and risk behaviors, educational experiences and outcomes, and socioeconomic and demographic circumstances of first- and second-generation immigrant children, compared with children with U.S.-born parents.
Download or read book Black Identities written by Mary C. WATERS and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of West Indian immigrants to the United States is generally considered to be a great success. Mary Waters, however, tells a very different story. She finds that the values that gain first-generation immigrants initial success--a willingness to work hard, a lack of attention to racism, a desire for education, an incentive to save--are undermined by the realities of life and race relations in the United States. Contrary to long-held beliefs, Waters finds, those who resist Americanization are most likely to succeed economically, especially in the second generation.
Download or read book Hispanics and the Future of America written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-02-23 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hispanics and the Future of America presents details of the complex story of a population that varies in many dimensions, including national origin, immigration status, and generation. The papers in this volume draw on a wide variety of data sources to describe the contours of this population, from the perspectives of history, demography, geography, education, family, employment, economic well-being, health, and political engagement. They provide a rich source of information for researchers, policy makers, and others who want to better understand the fast-growing and diverse population that we call "Hispanic." The current period is a critical one for getting a better understanding of how Hispanics are being shaped by the U.S. experience. This will, in turn, affect the United States and the contours of the Hispanic future remain uncertain. The uncertainties include such issues as whether Hispanics, especially immigrants, improve their educational attainment and fluency in English and thereby improve their economic position; whether growing numbers of foreign-born Hispanics become citizens and achieve empowerment at the ballot box and through elected office; whether impending health problems are successfully averted; and whether Hispanics' geographic dispersal accelerates their spatial and social integration. The papers in this volume provide invaluable information to explore these issues.
Download or read book Food Insecurity written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Household Food Security Among Latino Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers in North Carolina written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Food Insecurity in a Predominantly Hispanic College Student Population written by Vanessa Martinez and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: Food insecurity is a major issue in the United States (U.S) as it negatively affects the physical, mental, and social health of millions of people. Households with one or more of the following characteristics are at higher risk of suffering from food insecurity: low-income, ethnic minority, female, and single-parent. Most college students express one or more of these characteristics, yet very little research has examined the prevalence of food insecurity in college student populations. It is anticipated that low-income, minority college students are experiencing food insecurity at a higher rate than the national prevalence. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine the prevalence of food insecurity in college students attending a Hispanic-serving University in the southwest region of the U.S. Research Methods and Procedures: College students from a Hispanic-serving University participated in an online survey designed to examine dietary behaviors. Each participant was categorized as either food secure (high to marginal food security level) or food insecure (low to very low food security levels) based on their answers to the section of the survey that included the U.S. Household Food Security Survey Module six-item short form. Prevalence of food insecurity was determined by tabulation and simple percentage calculations. Binary logistic regression was used to assess associations between food security status and age, gender, body mass index (BMI), ethnicity, income, and education level. Results: A college student population (N=231; age=26.0 +/- 8.2 yr.; 68% female; 60% Hispanic; BMI= 26.02±5.48 kg/m2) at a Hispanic-serving University completed the survey. Fifty-five percent of the respondents (N=127) were categorized as food insecure. A positive association between age and food security status (P=0.02) was observed. Hispanic and Black respondents were more likely to be food insecure than White respondents (p=0.007 and p=0.03; respectively). A positive association between income and food security status (p=0.050) was observed. Discussion: College students are at high risk of food insecurity. Hispanic respondents, the ethnic majority of the university and subject population, were at higher risk of food insecurity compared to White respondents. Further research needs to examine the contributing factors associated with this disparity in food security status amongst low-income, college students.
