Immigration is a growing social dynamic in many countries, eliciting a variety of different responses. Proponents of immigration note how the influx of new people into the United States (US) has enhanced the workforce and brought cultural enrichment; others have attributed to immigrants, particularly undocumented, a rise in crime and strains on social services. Consequently, immigrants often contend with discrimination and other unique stressors that increase the likelihood that immigration will be a traumatizing experience. Because scholarly focus on the impact of immigration upon psychological wellbeing typically highlights individual experiences, there is limited attention on the impact on immigrant families, particularly mixed-status families comprised of immigrant parents and children who are US citizens by birth. There is also limited attention on immigrant dynamics in the Southern US. This qualitative, thematic analysis explores the experiences of 71 pairs of Latinx immigrant mothers and their US citizen children, living in the Southern US, utilizing the lens of intergenerational transmission of trauma. Using narrative data taken from trauma assessment instruments, the authors identified the most prevalent themes shared by the mothers and their children as crime victimization, deportation, threats to family health, sexual abuse, and marital conflict.

在许多国家，移民是一种日益增长的社会动态，引发了各种不同的反应。移民的支持者注意到新人涌入美国（US）如何增强了劳动力并带来了文化丰富；其他人则将犯罪率上升和社会服务压力归因于移民，尤其是无证移民。因此，移民经常与歧视和其他独特的压力源作斗争，这些压力源增加了移民成为创伤经历的可能性。由于学术关注移民对心理健康的影响通常强调个人经历，因此对移民家庭的影响关注有限，特别是由移民父母和出生为美国公民的孩子组成的混合身份家庭。对美国南部移民动态的关注也有限。这种定性的主题分析利用创伤代际传递的视角，探讨了居住在美国南部的 71 对拉丁裔移民母亲及其美国公民子女的经历。使用从创伤评估工具中获取的叙述数据，作者确定了母亲及其子女最普遍的主题是犯罪受害、驱逐、对家庭健康的威胁、性虐待和婚姻冲突。