Order Keepers or Immigration Agents? Latine Immigrant Views of Law Enforcement in Healthcare Settings.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Police and security presence in healthcare settings have grown. There are few studies exploring perceptions of these law enforcement agents among US Latine immigrants, who can be vulnerable to immigration enforcement actions due to past and ongoing criminalization and anti-immigrant policies.

Objective

To explore Latine immigrants' perceptions of law enforcement in healthcare settings.

Design

Exploratory, semi-structured qualitative interviews asked participants about their perspectives of law enforcement in healthcare settings.

Participants

English- and Spanish-speaking adult patients (n = 19) from a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in Los Angeles, CA, serving predominantly low-income Latine immigrants.

Approach

We used the framework

SUBMITTER: Snyder SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11306448 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature