The "disproportionate costs" of immigrant policy on the health of Latinx and Asian immigrants.

ABSTRACT: There is growing evidence that Asian and Latinx immigrants' health and health care access is shaped by immigrant policies that determine their rights, protections, and access to resources and the extent to which they are targeted by policing or deportation based on citizenship/legal status and other immigration-related social categories. However, there is limited population-based evidence of how immigrants experience the direct consequences of policies, nor of the impact of such consequences on their health. Between 2018 and 2020, we conducted the Research on Immigrant Health and State Policy (RIGHTS) Study, developing a population-based survey of Asian and Latinx immigrants in California (n = 2010) that measured 23 exclusionary experiences under health care and social services, education,

SUBMITTER: Young MT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11849312 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature