D Kaman 2001; Quesada 2011a). The popular rhetoric that undocumented Latinos are undeserving because their immigrant status is the result of lawbreaking “in both moral and judicial terms” (Viladrich 2012: 823; Cole 2009) further produces feelings of distress for undocumented immigrants. Given this social climate of restrictive immigration legislation and threats of deportation, it is no wonder that undocumented Latino immigrants experience high levels of “acculturative stress” in their daily lives (Arbona, et al 2010:379). However, more often than not a full accounting of the multiple sources of discrimination is rarely made or fully acknowledged by undocumented day laborers and others. When discussions of discrimination are shared by day laborers, their accounts vacillate along a continuum of “informed cosmopolitanism” to reproduced “na e localism” (Reichman 2011), and contribute to framing narratives4 that reflect dominant discourses of deservingness (Viladrich 2012; Willen 2007, 2012). Undocumented Latino migrants’ narratives are shaped by stories and rationales that “fit into an overarching neoliberal paradigm that rewards individual responsibility and self-sufficiency” (Viladrich 2012: 827). Self-censorship, making light of, or denial are often operative, with the latter following a logic that avoids reflection on all the problems one must face. For example, a 36 year oldNIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript4Framing refers to “conceptual structures that organize discourses and assemble narratives amid patterns of selection and valuation’ (Viladrich 2012: 827). Immigrant discourses of deservingness are usually framed to regard the undocumented according to legal, economic, political and cultural considerations that narrow rather than enlarge the civil and human rights of immigrants. City Soc (Wash). Author manuscript; available in PMC 2015 April 01.Quesada et al.PageHonduran man who has been in the U.S. since 2000 described how he deals with the stress of being on the street in the following way:NIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author ManuscriptI have felt that stress hits you when you’re upset, that you live thinking about order Ro4402257 things that you had in your country, think about things that you do not have…that they haven’t given you money, and all that….. And you feel–depressed, of course, and so that’s the stress …in those same thoughts. Because if your thoughts are not on those things…. if I don’t have work, and maybe if Cyclopamine web there’s no money over there, I don’t start thinking about it–if there isn’t [work], there isn’t. If there is, there is. Everything has a time. I don’t pay attention to that stress. It’s THAT [kind of thinking] that comes up a lot. This tendency to deny or minimize hardships and the effects of discrimination are even more studiously engaged in by U.S. citizens who support the expulsion of undocumented Latinos and state policies that deny basic human rights to the undocumented (Chavez 2008). This is not unlike Honduran non-migrants’ moral critique of their migrant compatriots (see Reichman 2011). They attribute reasons for leaving their homeland to personal failings or to a poor work ethic rather than motivations derived from more generalized social forces. In the popular North American imaginary, San Francisco and Berkeley are considered as very progressive, ultra-liberal settings that are ethnically heterogeneous, open-minded, accommodating, and char.D Kaman 2001; Quesada 2011a). The popular rhetoric that undocumented Latinos are undeserving because their immigrant status is the result of lawbreaking “in both moral and judicial terms” (Viladrich 2012: 823; Cole 2009) further produces feelings of distress for undocumented immigrants. Given this social climate of restrictive immigration legislation and threats of deportation, it is no wonder that undocumented Latino immigrants experience high levels of “acculturative stress” in their daily lives (Arbona, et al 2010:379). However, more often than not a full accounting of the multiple sources of discrimination is rarely made or fully acknowledged by undocumented day laborers and others. When discussions of discrimination are shared by day laborers, their accounts vacillate along a continuum of “informed cosmopolitanism” to reproduced “na e localism” (Reichman 2011), and contribute to framing narratives4 that reflect dominant discourses of deservingness (Viladrich 2012; Willen 2007, 2012). Undocumented Latino migrants’ narratives are shaped by stories and rationales that “fit into an overarching neoliberal paradigm that rewards individual responsibility and self-sufficiency” (Viladrich 2012: 827). Self-censorship, making light of, or denial are often operative, with the latter following a logic that avoids reflection on all the problems one must face. For example, a 36 year oldNIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript4Framing refers to “conceptual structures that organize discourses and assemble narratives amid patterns of selection and valuation’ (Viladrich 2012: 827). Immigrant discourses of deservingness are usually framed to regard the undocumented according to legal, economic, political and cultural considerations that narrow rather than enlarge the civil and human rights of immigrants. City Soc (Wash). Author manuscript; available in PMC 2015 April 01.Quesada et al.PageHonduran man who has been in the U.S. since 2000 described how he deals with the stress of being on the street in the following way:NIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author ManuscriptI have felt that stress hits you when you’re upset, that you live thinking about things that you had in your country, think about things that you do not have…that they haven’t given you money, and all that….. And you feel–depressed, of course, and so that’s the stress …in those same thoughts. Because if your thoughts are not on those things…. if I don’t have work, and maybe if there’s no money over there, I don’t start thinking about it–if there isn’t [work], there isn’t. If there is, there is. Everything has a time. I don’t pay attention to that stress. It’s THAT [kind of thinking] that comes up a lot. This tendency to deny or minimize hardships and the effects of discrimination are even more studiously engaged in by U.S. citizens who support the expulsion of undocumented Latinos and state policies that deny basic human rights to the undocumented (Chavez 2008). This is not unlike Honduran non-migrants’ moral critique of their migrant compatriots (see Reichman 2011). They attribute reasons for leaving their homeland to personal failings or to a poor work ethic rather than motivations derived from more generalized social forces. In the popular North American imaginary, San Francisco and Berkeley are considered as very progressive, ultra-liberal settings that are ethnically heterogeneous, open-minded, accommodating, and char.
