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Latinx and Asian Immigrants Across California Regions have Different Experiences with Law and Immigration Enforcement

November 8, 2021

Latinx and Asian immigrants, California's two largest immigrant groups, face barriers to health care and experience worse health outcomes compared to U.S.-born Californians. This is in part due in part to restrictive immigration policies that permit local law enforcement (e.g., police, sheriffs) to collaborate with immigration enforcement authorities in the surveillance, policing, and deportation of noncitizens.Authors used data from the Research on Immigrant Health and State Policy Study (RIGHTS) to examine Latinx and Asian immigrants' experiences with local law and federal immigration enforcement policies and practices in three California regions, Bay Area (n=305), Los Angeles and Southern California (n=989), and the San Joaquin Valley (n=141). The survey is a follow-up to the 2018 and 2019 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS). Respondents were asked if they had ever experienced any of six different encounters with surveillance, policing, or deportation by law enforcement, including local police, sheriffs, or immigration enforcement authorities.

Latinx and Asian Immigrants Have Negative Perceptions of the Immigrant Experience in California

November 8, 2021

Evidence indicates that there are disparities in immigrants' access to health care and health status compared to U.S.-born residents, in part due to immigration policies that determine access to public benefits or shape lives. This fact sheet examines data from the Research on Immigrant Health and State Policy Study (RIGHTS) on the perceptions of Latinx and Asian immigrants in California. RIGHTS is a follow-up survey of the 2018 and 2019 California Health Interview Surveys (CHIS). Respondents reported their perceptions of immigrants' experiences at the workplace, accessing health care, encountering law or immigration enforcement, and using public benefits.

Place Matters for Health in Orleans Parish: Ensuring Opportunities for Good Health for All, A Report on Health Inequities in Orleans Parish, Louisiana

November 1, 2012

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the range of social, economic, and environmental conditions in Orleans Parish and documents their relationship to the health status of the county's residents.

Place Matters for Health in the South Delta: Ensuring Opportunities for Good Health for All, A Report on Health Inequities in South Delta, Mississippi

November 1, 2012

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the range of social, economic, and environmental conditions in the South Delta and documents their relationship to the health status of the county's residents.

Place Matters for Health in Baltimore: Ensuring Opportunities for Good Health for All, A Report on Health Inequities in Baltimore, Maryland

November 1, 2012

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the range of social, economic, and environmental conditions in Baltimore city and documents their relationship to the health status of the county's residents.

Place Matters for Health in Cook County: Ensuring Opportunities for Good Health for All, A Report on Health Inequities in Cook County, Illinois

November 1, 2012

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the range of social, economic, and environmental conditions in Cook County and documents their relationship to the health status of the county's residents.

Place Matters for Health in Jefferson County, Alabama: Ensuring Opportunities for Good Health for All, A Report on Health Inequities in Birmingham, Alabama

November 1, 2012

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the range of social, economic, and environmental conditions in Jefferson County and documents their relationship to the health status of the county's residents.

Place Matters for Health in Boston: Ensuring Opportunities for Good Health for All, A Report on Health Inequities in Boston, Massachusetts

November 1, 2012

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the range of social, economic, and environmental conditions in Boston and documents their relationship to the health status of the county's residents.

Place Matters for Health in Alameda County: Ensuring Opportunities for Good Health for All, A Report on Health Inequities in Alameda County, California

November 1, 2012

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the range of social, economic, and environmental conditions in Alameda County and documents their relationship to the health status of the county's residents.

Place Matters for Health in Bernalillo County: Ensuring Opportunities for Good Health for All, A Report on Health Inequities in Bernalillo County, New Mexico

November 1, 2012

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the range of social, economic, and environmental conditions in Bernalillo County and documents their relationship to the health status of the county's residents.

'Walk softly and listen carefully': Building research relationships with tribal communities

October 1, 2012

In this paper, we first discuss how "culture," "sovereignty," and "experience" matter for researchers when working in partnership with tribes and AI/AN people and second provide a thematic summary of reflections provided by Montana-based community members and researchers. While the first section is presented as overarching insights for researchers working with AI/AN communities, we acknowledge that each community is distinct and that "place" also matters. It is essential for researchers to come to understand the particularities of place, including local histories and experiences with research, as part of building meaningful and effective research relationships. As such, we have made an attempt to emphasize the voices of Montana community members working in tribal research contexts in the first section as well as focus on Montana voices in the second section. We hope that this framework helps to anchor researchers navigating the growing information available on developing meaningful and ethical relationships with AI/AN communities.

Place Matters: Ensuring Opportunities for Good Health for All, A Summary of Place Matters’ Community Health Equity Reports

September 1, 2012

Place matters for health in important ways, according to a growing body of research. Differences in neighborhood conditions powerfully predict who is healthy, who is sick, and who lives longer. And because of patterns of residential segregation, these differences are the fundamental causes of health inequities among different racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups.This report provides a summary of the analysis of the range of social, economic, and environmental conditions that exist in selected Place Matters communities and documents their relationship to the health status of the residents. The study finds that social, economic, and environmental conditions in low-income and non-white neighborhoods make it moredifficult for people in these neighborhoods to live healthy lives. The overall pattern in the series of Community Health Equity Reports, as this summary makes clear, suggests that we need to tackle the structures and systems that create and perpetuate inequality to fully close racial and ethnic health gaps. Accordingly, because the Joint Center seeks not only to document these inequities, we are committed to helping remedy them.