Samantha Artiga & Elizabeth Hinton, Beyond Health Care: The Role of Social Determinants in Promoting Health and Health Equity
Kaiser Family Foundation, Health Coverage of Immigrants OR The National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, The Health Equity and Access under the Law (HEAL) for Immigrant Families Act
Medha D. Makhlouf, Health Justice for Immigrants, Revisited OR Sarah Sherman-Stokes, Public Health and the Power to Exclude: Immigrant Expulsions at the Border
Asad L. Asad & Matthew Clair, Racialized Legal Status as a Social Determinant of Health OR Asad L. Asad, Latinos’ Deportation Fears by Citizenship and Legal Status, 2007-2018
Adrian Matias Bacong and Cecilia Menjívar, Recasting the Immigrant Health Paradox Through Intersections of Legal Status and Race
Jamila Taylor, 5 Ways Immigration Justice Is Reproductive Justice OR Asees Bhasin, Love in the Time of ICE: How Parents Without Papers Are Stripped of the Right to Raise their Children in a Safe and Healthy Environment
Medha D. Makhlouf, Health Care Sanctuaries
Mara Youdelman, The Medical Tongue: U.S. Laws and Policies On Language Access OR Mara Youdelman, Summary of State Law Requirements Addressing Language Needs in Health Care
Prashasti Bhatnagar, Deportable Until Essential: How the Neoliberal U.S. Immigration System Furthers Racial Capitalism and Operates as a Negative Social Determinant of Health
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Immigration, Health Care and Health OR Medha D. Makhlouf, Laboratories of Exclusion: Medicaid, Federalism & Immigrants
The National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, AAPI Immigrant Women and Access to Health Care
Natalia Molina, Borders, Laborers, and Racialized Medicalization Mexican Immigration and US Public Health Practices in the 20th Century OR Prashasti Bhatnagar, Public Health as Pretext: The Evisceration of Asylum Law and Protections during a Pandemic
Medha D. Makhlouf & Sarah Battistich, Opinion: Biden Must Stop Using ‘Public Health Excuse’ To Immediately Expel Migrants OR Ashley Binetti Armstrong, Co-opting Coronavirus, Assailing Asylum
Prashasti Bhatnagar, Borders are the Real Crisis: A Public Health Perspective on the Need for Dismantling Imagined Borders
Sarah Goldman, Anna Aspenson, Prashasti Bhatnagar & Robert Martin, Essential and in Crisis: A Review of the Public Health Threats Facing Farmworkers in the US OR Center for Agriculture and Food Systems & Center for a Livable Future, Farmworker Health Policy Database
Meredith Van Natta, Medical Legal Violence: Health Care and Immigration Enforcement Against Latinx Noncitizens
Medha D. Makhlouf & Jasmine Sandhu, Immigrants and Interdependence: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Exposes the Folly of the New Public Charge Rule
Elle Lett, Dalí Adekunle, Patrick McMurray, Emmanuella Ngozi Asabor, Whitney Irie, Melissa A. Simon, Rachel Hardeman & Monica R. McLemore, Health Equity Tourism: Ravaging the Justice Landscape
Freedom for Immigrants, The Immigration Detention Syllabus
As you engage with the materials, we encourage you to reflect on the materials in whatever way you process—whether through provocations, questions, or discussions.
To facilitate discussion, we invite you to join us for a panel discussion with scholars and community members on this topic to reflect together and find different ways to challenge our understanding. More information on the panel is available under Scholar Series. We also welcome your own reflections and questions through our reflection form.
If you are looking for asynchronous reflection, we offer the following questions to guide your reflection:
In what ways did the readings/videos/podcasts challenge your current understanding of the state of healthcare access, particularly for immigrants? Is this limited access intentional? Why?
Think about the intersections between immigration law and health justice. In what ways does the immigration system itself exist as a negative social determinant of health? In other words, critically reflect on how the immigration system perpetuates health disparities.
Immigration justice is reproductive justice. How does the border (or other enforcement mechanisms) attack or control reproductive health?
What does building safe and equitable healthcare systems mean to you? What does it require from you, and what are you willing to commit to?
Option 1: Develop a monthly plan outlining how you will commit to learning more about the history of the land you occupy, building relationships with Indigenous peoples, and paying land taxes for your occupation.
Option 2: Engage in advocacy efforts around the HEAL for Immigrant Families Act. Develop your own action & advocacy plan by thinking critically about your personal stake, issue cutting, and the social change wheel. What does your personal social change wheel look like? Use the social change wheel 2.0 as a reference point.
Option 3: Donate time, skills, and/or money to grassroots organizations such as La ColectiVA and National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum; invest in mutual aid networks such as DC Mutual Aid Network or Indigenous Mutual Aid Groups and local abortion funds; and mobilize for reproductive justice. A comprehensive database on local mutual aid networks across the nation is available here.
Option 4: Create a weekly or monthly donation plan based on your income and generational wealth to redistribute your wealth. Use this master list to identify organizations, networks, and funds you plan to commit to.