Though this study did …show more content…
Rubio-Hernandez and Cecilia Ayón called “Pobrecitos los Niños: The Emotional Impact of Anti-Immigration Policies on Latino Children” was published in 2015. This report focused solely on qualitative data regarding the impact that immigration policies have on children that came strictly from immigrant parents. The study involved 54 Latino immigrant parents. There was a coding system that was used in order to be able to categorize the information received from in-depth interviews with the parents. Through this coding system, they discovered four themes: Concern and sense of responsibility, fear and hypervigilance, sadness and crying. These themes became the theoretical framework for their study. The study provided a lot of original account from parents that did indeed show that immigration policies hurt their children. It was reported that depression was a significant finding in the children whose parents were deported. This supports the belief that separation due to immigration policies impacts the psyche of the …show more content…
They used a constructivist grounded theory method in order to provide guidelines for the coding system. It allowed for the categories to be built around the data that was collected. I think that this is a better method than developing the categories before collecting the data because the categories are now more specific and accurate. The data was analyzed and coded twice over. The coding was done by an immigrant from Mexico and the daughter of Mexican immigrants, which ensured that the data received through interviews from the Spanish speaking parents were accurately