Discriminatory legislation targeting Latinx immigrants in the United States has shifted how parents communicate with their children about the hostile political climate. One way that Latinx parents talk about and prepare their children to face prejudice is through ethnic-racial socialization, which can promote children's positive development. Few scholars, however, have focused on how Latinx immigrant families with precarious documentation status socialize their children around issues of immigration, documentation status, and the potential for family separation. The current study seeks to broaden our understanding and conceptualization of ethnic-racial socialization practices among Latinx immigrant families living in the United States to include documentation status socialization to better capture the messages parents transmit to their children about the causes and potential impacts of their documentation status. Thirty-nine Latinx immigrant mothers aged 35–53 (M = 41.66), (22 undocumented, 17 documented) were interviewed regarding the ways in which their documentation status informs their ethnic-racial socialization practices. Five subthemes of Documentation Status Socialization were identified among both undocumented and documented parents. Example of subthemes included Limitations and Restrictions of Undocumented Status, and Documentation Privilege, in which parents discussed the limitation of being undocumented as well as the privilege that comes with the legal documentation status with their youth. Our findings yield important implications for practice and research alike.

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拉丁裔移民父母的文件身份社会化

针对美国拉丁裔移民的歧视性立法改变了父母与孩子就敌对政治气候进行沟通的方式。拉丁裔父母谈论并让他们的孩子准备好面对偏见的一种方式是通过种族社会化，这可以促进孩子的积极发展。然而，很少有学者关注具有不稳定文件身份的拉丁裔移民家庭如何围绕移民、文件身份和家庭分离的可能性让他们的孩子社交。目前的研究旨在扩大我们对居住在美国的拉丁裔移民家庭的种族-种族社会化实践的理解和概念化，包括文件身份社会化，以更好地捕捉父母向子女传递的关于其文件身份的原因和潜在影响的信息. 三十九名年龄在 35-53 岁之间的拉丁裔移民母亲（M = 41.66)，（22 人无证件，17 人有证件）接受了采访，了解他们的证件状态如何影响他们的种族-种族社会化实践。在无证件和有证件的父母中确定了文件状态社会化的五个子主题。子主题的例子包括无证身份的限制和限制，以及文件特权，其中父母讨论了无证的限制以及与他们年轻时合法文件身份带来的特权。我们的发现对实践和研究都产生了重要的影响。