“Lived the Pandemic Twice”: a scoping review of the unequal impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on asylum seekers and undocumented migrants

Z Mengesha, E Alloun, D Weber, M Smith… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Background: Emerging evidence suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic is widening pre-
pandemic health, social, and economic inequalities between refugees, migrants, and …

Migrant workers, migrants, internally displaced persons, asylum seekers and refugees-The silent sufferers of the COVID-19 pandemic: A brief review of media reports

NK Syed, MA Al-Kasim, S Alqahtani… - Journal of Concurrent …, 2022 - irep.ntu.ac.uk
Like other vulnerable groups, the pandemic has severely and negatively impacted
marginalized groups, including migrant laborers, documented and undocumented migrants …

Advancing Research To Address The Health Impacts Of Structural Racism In US Immigration Prisons: Commentary examines health impacts of structural racism in US …

C Diaz, J Nwadiuko, A Saadi, C Patler - Health Affairs, 2023 - healthaffairs.org
The US is the world leader in imprisoning immigrants. Its mass immigration detention system
emerged as an extension of mass incarceration, rooted in a legacy of racist US immigration …

Community engagement via restorative justice to build equity-oriented crisis standards of care

R Long, ECC Manchanda, AM Dekker… - Journal of the National …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) Pandemic has revealed multiple structural inequities
within the United States (US), with high social vulnerability index communities shouldering …

Emergency Medical Responses at US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Detention Centers in California

AM Dekker, J Farah, P Parmar, AB Uner… - JAMA Network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Knowledge of medical care in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
detention centers is limited. Reviews show high rates of preventable deaths while in …

[HTML][HTML] Suicide rates of migrants in United States immigration detention (2010–2020)

P Erfani, ET Chin, CH Lee, N Uppal… - AIMS public health, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective We determined the annual suicide rate of migrants detained by US Immigration
and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the past decade. Methods We performed a retrospective …

Characteristics of deaths among individuals in US immigration and customs enforcement detention facilities, 2011-2018

M Grassini, S Terp, B Fischer, S Ahmed… - JAMA network …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Concerns have been raised that substandard medical care has contributed to
deaths in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities. After each in …

Immigration detention in the United States: identifying alternatives that comply with human rights and advance public health

A Ly, A Sprague, B Pierce, C Post… - American Journal of …, 2021 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Under international law, the United States is obligated to uphold noncitizens' fundamental
rights, including their rights to health. However, current US immigration laws—and their …

Clinical implications for LGBT asylum seekers in US detention centers

CE Gerena - Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
LGBT asylum seekers are a unique population who have suffered violence and persecution
in their countries of origin by their families, communities, and state actors due to their sexual …

Harmful by design—a qualitative study of the health impacts of immigration detention

C Diaz, V Ortiz, L Sanchez, J Fernandez… - Journal of general …, 2023 - Springer
Background The USA has the largest immigration detention system in the world with over
20,000 individuals imprisoned by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) daily …