Mechanisms by Which Anti-Immigrant Stigma Exacerbates Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities

Anti-immigrant rhetoric and political actions gained prominence and public support before, during, and after the 2016 presidential election. This anti-immigrant political environment threatens to increase health disparities among undocumented persons, immigrant groups, and people of color. I discuss...

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Published inAmerican journal of public health (1971) Vol. 108; no. 4; pp. 460 - 463
Main Author Morey, Brittany N
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States American Public Health Association 01.04.2018
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Birth weight
Citizenship
Community Health
Deportation
Detention
Discrimination
Elections
Emigrants and Immigrants
Enforcement
Ethnicity
Families & family life
Frost, Robert (1874-1963)
Health care
Health care access
Health care policy
Health disparities
Health Policy
Health risks
Health Status Disparities
Human Rights
Humans
Immigrants
Immigration
Immigration policy
Mental health
Minority & ethnic groups
Noncitizens
Obligations
Other Race/Ethnicity
Political power
Politics
Presidential elections
Presidents
Public health
Public Health Practice
Racial Groups
Racism
Rhetoric
Social security
Society
Sociopolitical factors
Stereotyping
Stigma
Undocumented immigrants
United States
Violence
Xenophobia
United States
United States > US
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Summary:Anti-immigrant rhetoric and political actions gained prominence and public support before, during, and after the 2016 presidential election. This anti-immigrant political environment threatens to increase health disparities among undocumented persons, immigrant groups, and people of color. I discuss the mechanisms by which anti-immigrant stigma exacerbates racial/ethnic health disparities through increasing multilevel discrimination and stress, deportation and detention, and policies that limit health resources. I argue that the anti-immigrant sociopolitical context is a social determinant of health that affects mostly communities of color, both immigrants and nonimmigrants. Public health has a moral obligation to consider how immigration policy is health policy and to be prepared to respond to worsening health disparities as a result of anti-immigrant racism.
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Peer Reviewed
ISSN:0090-0036
1541-0048
DOI:10.2105/AJPH.2017.304266