"They Don't Care If We Live or Die": A Qualitative Analysis Examining the US Immigration System's Treatment of Undocumented Communities during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Autor:	Sharif MZ; COVID-19 Task Force on Racism & Equity, Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice, and Health, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA.; Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, School of Public Health, Seattle, WA., Cabral A; COVID-19 Task Force on Racism & Equity, Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice, and Health, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA.; Department of Community Health Sciences, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA., Alcalá HE; Department of Behavioral and Community Health, University of Maryland, School of Public Health, College Park, MD.; Program in Oncology, University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baltimore, MD., Hassan MA; Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, School of Public Health, Seattle, WA.; Division of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN., Amani B; COVID-19 Task Force on Racism & Equity, Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice, and Health, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA.; Department of Urban Public Health, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, CA.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Ethnicity & disease [Ethn Dis] 2024 May 27; Vol. 34 (1), pp. 8-18. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 May 27 (Print Publication: 2024).
DOI:	10.18865/ed.34.1.8
Abstrakt:	Historically, the US immigration system (ie, institutions, agencies, and laws) has served the goals and principles of white supremacy through its treatment of globally displaced people and this appears to have continued through the COVID pandemic. Yet, the implications for immigrant health are not routinely addressed in mainstream public health discourse, and especially so in regard to public health disasters. This study conducted a series of focus groups with participants from social justice organizations working with immigrants, migrants, undocumented persons, refugees, persons seeking asylum, and persons detained in immigration jails to collect stories on how the immigration system undermined efforts to control the spread of COVID-19 and exacerbated health inequity within immigrant jails and across related community contexts during the pandemic. Focus groups were conducted to explore issues related to immigrants and immigration detention during the COVID-19 pandemic. There was a total of N=14 participants across the 4 focus groups with a dedicated focus group on perspectives of Black immigrants/from Black immigrant organizations only. Each focus group consisted of 3 to 4 participants. Five key themes emerged: 1) dehumanization of immigrants and migrants and devaluation of their lives; 2) inhumane conditions of confinement that propagate risk of disease; 3) denial of resources for COVID-19 prevention and mitigation; 4) expansion of intersecting oppressive systems; and 5) community-based resistance and mobilization against immigration policies and enforcement. Our findings highlight the harms from policing, criminalization, and exclusion that racialized communities face as a result of the (in)actions within the immigration system during a public health disaster including the COVID context. Competing Interests: Conflict of Interest: No conflicts of interest reported by authors.
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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