ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the differences within the group of Latino/a attorneys and judges involved in Operation Streamline based on the social identity of citizenship/generational status. Findings show that citizenship/generational status among Latino/a respondents influences racial/ethnic social identity salience. Two groups emerge: (1) Those respondents who are 1.5- and 2nd-generation Latino/as who tend to have thicker racial/ethnic identities that they themselves assert and (2) Those respondents who are naturalized/migrated themselves later in life or who are third-generation-plus who tend to have thinner racial/ethnic identities that are assigned by others. Variations in citizenship/generational status impact how thick/asserted or thin/assigned a respondent's racial/ethnic social identity is, which affects their subsequent level of work-related role strain and identity competition. Naturalized/migrated themselves later in life and third-generation-plus Latino/a respondents more closely resembled non-Latino/as in their use of identity management strategies, while 1.5- and 2nd-generation Latino/as mirrored the overall Latino/a patterns. This supports the conceptualization of competing identity management because Latino/as who had a more salient racial/ethnic identity experienced more work-related role strain and had to engage in higher levels of identity management strategies than those who experienced less work-related role strain.
