Mechanisms by which anti-immigrant stigma exacerbates racial/ethnic health disparities
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Anti-immigrant rhetoric and political actions gained prominence and public support before, during, and after the 2016 presidential election. This anti-immigrant political environment threatens to increase health disparities among undocumented persons, immigrant groups, and people of color. I discuss the mechanisms by which anti-immigrant stigma exacerbates racial/ethnic health disparities through increasing multilevel discrimination and stress, deportation and detention, and policies that limit health resources. I argue that the anti-immigrant sociopolitical context is a social determinant of health that affects mostly communities of color, both immigrants and nonimmigrants. Public health has a moral obligation to consider how immigration policy is health policy and to be prepared to respond to worsening health disparities as a result of anti-immigrant racism.
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The dominant group may exercise stigma using multiple mechanisms such as anti-immigrant media and messaging and resource-reducing discrimination in employment, housing, and education to marginalize minority groups with status loss and negative labels/stereotypes.
“the dominant group may exercise stigma using multiple mechanisms such as anti-immigrant media and messaging (Morey, 2018) and resource-reducing discrimination in employment, housing, and education (Hatzenbuehler et al., 2013) to marginalize minority groups with status loss and negative labels/stereotypes (Link and Phelan, 2001).”
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- Authors
- Morey, B. N.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Riverside (US)
- Corresponding author
- Morey, Brittany N.
- ORCID
- Morey, Brittany N.
- Venue
- American Journal of Public Health
- Publisher
- American Public Health Association
- Published
- 2018-04
- Volume
- 108
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 460-463
- ISSN
- 0090-0036 (ISSN-L)
- 1541-0048
- PMC
- PMC5846442
- OpenAlex
- W2788827480
- Cited by
- 192
- References
- 17
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 22.91
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- American Journal of Public Health (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Migration, Health and Trauma
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Social Sciences › Health › Migration, Racism, and Human Rights
- Keywords
- racial and ethnic health disparities, immigration policy, undocumented immigrants, deportation, immigration detention, discrimination, stress, social determinants of health, anti-immigrant racism, health policy
- MeSH terms
- Ethnicity, Health Policy, Humans, Stereotyping, United States, Racial Groups, Emigrants and Immigrants, Health Status Disparities, Racism
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