"Es Muy Tranquilo Aqui": Perceptions of Safety and Calm among Binationally Mobile Mexican Immigrants in a Rural Border Community.

ABSTRACT: Perceptions of community can play an important role in determining health and well-being. We know little, however, about residents' perceptions of community safety in the Southwestern borderlands, an area frequently portrayed as plagued by disorder. The qualitative aim of this community-based participatory research study was to explore the perceptions of Mexican-origin border residents about their communities in southern Yuma County, Arizona. Our team of University of Arizona researchers and staff from Campesinos Sin Fronteras, a grassroots farmworker support agency in Yuma County, Arizona, developed a bilingual interview guide and recruited participants through radio adds, flyers, and cold calls among existing agency clientele. Thirty individual interviews with participants of Mexican ori

SUBMITTER: Crocker RM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9323766 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature