Social Exclusion among African Immigrants in the United States.

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      PSYCHOLOGY of Black people; CULTURE; STRUCTURAL equation modeling; COMPUTER software; STATISTICS; SOCIAL participation; EDUCATION; CROSS-sectional method; ONE-way analysis of variance; HEALTH status indicators; RACE; SOCIAL isolation; SURVEYS; INCOME; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; STATISTICAL sampling; MAXIMUM likelihood statistics; STATISTICAL correlation; PSYCHOLOGY of immigrants; RELIGION
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      UNITED States
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      Research suggests exclusionary mechanisms fostering negative socioeconomic outcomes for African immigrants. This study explored predictors of social exclusion among immigrants from African countries living in the United States. The authors examined four dimensions of social exclusion that entail social–cultural and structural–economic exclusion. Authors used structural equation modeling to analyze cross-sectional survey data from first- and second-generation African immigrants across the United States (N = 409). Findings highlighted the negative effects of discrimination on all four dimensions of social exclusion. In addition, higher levels of education were associated with higher levels of social–cultural exclusion, whereas higher levels of income were protective from social and structural–economic exclusion. Authors also found health status, religion, race, and immigrant generation to have significant effects on social exclusion. Study findings have important implications for social workers seeking to identify and prevent exclusionary mechanisms and practices affecting African immigrants in the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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