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Mind Map #9 - Coggle Diagram
Mind Map #9
Class discussion
We are looking at Southeast Asian communities and how those are considered to be "brown" bit why and where did this come from?
There is a lack of recourses for people who have migrated to the united states. They come into a country with no recourses, a tense climate from the government to keep the immigrants out, mixed with a society that also doesn't want them creates a climate where health is not considered to be a priority
quantified marginalization: it isn't the best idea simply because there are so many different groups within this overarching categories. Finding the correlation with race and gender and nationality will help at least inform more and we should by no means stop collecting data but there needs to be a closer analysis of specific groups.
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A Trajectory Model for Understanding and Assessing Health Disparities in Immigrant and Refugee Communities
The article opens by talking about how there are racial/ ethnic health disparities, some of which have been studied, but there is still a major lack of research and information around immigration and refugee groups in their healthcare journeys.
21% of immigrant children are living in poverty and the level of poverty impacts the level of care people are able to receive. It is harder for this demographic to get food, housing and consistent healthcare than their native born counter parts.
Lower SES demographics also encapsulate an overrepresentation of minority populations. These are also associated with health risks like smoking, poor nutrition, environmental pollution and injury
The jobs that are available to these immigrant workers don't offer recourses like health insurance and thus are at a higher level of injurie or disease.
The trajectory in the end is to expand our research on immigration and refugees and how they are treated in a society that was built on racism and is still being supported by the deranged ideology that some people are worthy of more and others deserve less.
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Because of this major lack of research or information about immigration, we aren't even able to develop a framework to begin to reduce the impact of these health disparities
My Thoughts
Perceived discrimination: Is based on the persons report of what it means to be discriminated against. They are looking at self reported data from an immigrant to also see if the individual understand why they are being discriminated against. Ex. People talk to me differently because I have a thick accent.
While the data that they are collecting is important in understanding health and discrimination but at the same time is it a question of what will be done with this data. We know that there is a large system of oppression isnt something that we can measure based on perception. It is happening, everyday, everywhere. So what do we do with this data?
It is incredibly important that these groups are talked about and represented. One issue that stuck out to me that we talked about in class today is that while for a bit of time we were distracted by Trump wanting to "build the wall" shifting the focus onto mexico and the hispanic population we have in America. Meanwhile, the percentage of southeastern asians that were deported was up almost 200% but the public eye wasnt shifted on them.