Impact of Arizona’s SB 1070 Immigration Law on Utilization of Health Care and Public Assistance Among Mexican-Origin Adolescent Mothers and Their Mother Figures

Toomey, Russell B.; Umaña‐Taylor, Adriana J.; Williams, David R.; Harvey-Mendoza, Elizabeth C.; Jahromi, Laudan B.; Updegraff, Kimberly A.

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“…Although participants indicated that fear of deportation was a constant worry for undocumented immigrants, no one told us that this fear prevented these individuals from seeking out health services when needed. This is surprising given the ample literature that has substantiated undocumented immigrants' unwillingness and inability to access care due to fear of deportation and anti-immigration policies [39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46]. This is the first study to examine perceived barriers to access to care for Latino and Haitian immigrants on Maryland's Eastern Shore.…”

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Immigrant Health in Rural Maryland: A Qualitative Study of Major Barriers to Health Care Access

Sangaramoorthy

Guevara

2016

J Immigrant Minority Health

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Immigration to rural areas in new receiving communities like Maryland's Eastern Shore is growing. Despite a rapid rise in immigration and diminishing health system resources, little attention has been focused on barriers to health care access in this region for immigrants. A total of 33 in-depth key informant interviews with providers and immigrants were conducted. Qualitative analysis employing a constant comparison approach was used to explore emergent themes related to barriers to health care access for a growing immigrant population. Participants perceived limited health care resources, lack of health insurance coverage, high health expenditures, language barriers, and non-citizenship status as barriers to immigrants' access of health care. Findings imply that immigrants living and working on the rural Eastern Shore face serious barriers to health care access. Additional work on immigrant health in rural areas and the impacts of immigration to rural health systems are needed.

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Immigrant Health in Rural Maryland: A Qualitative Study of Major Barriers to Health Care Access

Sangaramoorthy

Guevara

2016

J Immigrant Minority Health

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“…However, the few quantitative studies do not consistently find effects of omnibus laws on health care access. A longitudinal study of Latino adolescent mothers found that after Arizona passed SB 1070 in 2010, mothers were less likely to seek preventive care for their US-born children (Toomey et al, 2014). This small study did not use a representative sample, limiting its generalizability, and did not have a comparison group.…”

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Do restrictive omnibus immigration laws reduce enrollment in public health insurance by Latino citizen children? A comparative interrupted time series study

Allen

McNeely

2017

Social Science & Medicine

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In the United States, there is concern that recent state laws restricting undocumented immigrants’ rights could threaten access to Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for citizen children of immigrant parents. Of particular concern are omnibus immigration laws, state laws that include multiple provisions increasing immigration enforcement and restricting rights for undocumented immigrants. These laws could limit Medicaid/CHIP access for citizen children in immigrant families by creating misinformation about their eligibility and fostering fear and mistrust of government among immigrant parents. This study uses nationally-representative data from the National Health Interview Survey (2005–2014; n=70,187) and comparative interrupted time series methods to assess whether passage of state omnibus immigration laws reduced access to Medicaid/CHIP for US citizen Latino children. We found that law passage did not reduce enrollment for children with noncitizen parents and actually resulted in temporary increases in coverage among Latino children with at least one citizen parent. These findings are surprising in light of prior research. We offer potential explanations for this finding and conclude with a call for future research to be expanded in three ways: 1) examine whether policy effects vary for children of undocumented parents, compared to children whose noncitizen parents are legally present; 2) examine the joint effects of immigration-related policies at different levels, from the city or county to the state to the federal; and 3) draw on the large social movements and political mobilization literatures that describe when and how Latinos and immigrants push back against restrictive immigration laws.

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“…Growing research confirms that deportations and greater local immigration enforcement lowers social service use and increases economic hardship,[15, 18, 21, 29, 30] but most studies are based on qualitative data and small-scale surveys, which provide rich contextual information but are limited with respect to representativeness. Moreover, these studies have not demonstrated that 287(g) increases food insecurity.…”

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Local-Level Immigration Enforcement and Food Insecurity Risk among Hispanic Immigrant Families with Children: National-Level Evidence

Potochnick

Chen

Perreira

2016

J Immigrant Minority Health

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Background Local-level immigration enforcement generates fear and reduces social service use among Hispanic immigrant families but the health impacts are largely unknown. We examine the consequence of 287(g), the foundational enforcement program, for one critical risk factor of child health—food insecurity. Methods We analyze nationally representative data on households with children from pooled cross-sections of the Current Population Survey Food Supplemental Survey. We identify the influence of 287(g) on food insecurity pre-post-policy accounting for metro-area and year fixed-effects. Results We find that 287(g) is associated with a 10 percentage point increase in the food insecurity risk of Mexican non-citizen households with children, the group most vulnerable to 287(g). We find no evidence of spillover effects on the broader Hispanic community. Discussion Our results suggest that local immigration enforcement policies have unintended consequences. Although 287(g) has ended, other federal-local immigration enforcement partnerships persist, which makes these findings highly policy relevant.

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Impact of Arizona’s SB 1070 Immigration Law on Utilization of Health Care and Public Assistance Among Mexican-Origin Adolescent Mothers and Their Mother Figures

Cited by 166 publications

References 25 publications

Immigrant Health in Rural Maryland: A Qualitative Study of Major Barriers to Health Care Access

Immigrant Health in Rural Maryland: A Qualitative Study of Major Barriers to Health Care Access

Do restrictive omnibus immigration laws reduce enrollment in public health insurance by Latino citizen children? A comparative interrupted time series study

Local-Level Immigration Enforcement and Food Insecurity Risk among Hispanic Immigrant Families with Children: National-Level Evidence

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