States with fewer criminalizing immigrant policies have smaller health care inequities between citizens and noncitizens.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the last thirty years, major shifts in immigrant policy at national and state levels has heightened boundaries among citizens, permanent residents, and those with other statuses. While there is mounting evidence that citizenship influences immigrant health care inequities, there has been less focus on how policies that reinforce citizenship stratification may shape the extent of these inequities. We examine the extent to which the relationship between citizenship and health care inequities is moderated by state-level criminalization policies.

Methods

Taking a comparative approach, we assess how distinct criminalization policy contexts across US states are associated with inequitable access to care by citizenship status. Utilizing a data set with state-level mea

SUBMITTER: Young MT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7558673 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature