What would it take for you to leave your home and everything you know? What if you left knowing you might not be able to return? If you had to leave quickly, what would you take with you? These are questions that many immigrants must grapple with because of their circumstances. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the global migration of humans had reached the highest levels in recorded human history.International Organization for Migration (IOM) is the global institution that studies and helps inform international laws regarding human migration. This organization posits that 1 in every 30 persons globally is classified broadly as a migrant (IOM, 2022). As the world transitions into the COVID-19 postpandemic phase, it is estimated that the number of global migrants will return to prepandemic levels within a decade, if not sooner (IOM, 2021).The IOM has promulgated a set of internationally standardized definitions for people who have migrated in Table 1. Although the broadest term is migrant, other terms may be useful to clinicians and researchers, and appreciated by clients and participants, because they classify migrants into various terms that convey the basis for the migration or the migrant's status. Examples are migrant worker, asylum seeker, refugee, undocumented migrant, and immigrant.Notably, IOM stresses that no human being should be classified as illegal in reference to their residential status in a country. The term illegal is reductive, dehumanizing, xenophobic, and oftentimes rooted in racist ideas.Immigrants face many challenges when adapting to life in the host country, including when navigating the healthcare system.Common challenges immigrants experience when navigating the healthcare system are language barriers, changes in socioeconomic status, changes in social support networks, barriers with accultura-

With the current paradigm shift in health care towards providing valuebased care and the echoes to meaningfully reduce racial inequities, nurses, and midwives globally are essential to addressing the needs of populations that have been marginalized based on race. Race describes grouping individuals based on observable characteristics such as skin color, hair texture, eye shape, and other facial and body features. Race and racial categories differ internationally and have changed across centuries as social, political, cultural contexts, and migration patterns change. Importantly, there is no genetic basis for racial differences as all human DNA is the same, therefore, human beings are all equally human.

The International Organization on Migration (IOM)-the international organization representing people who migrate from their birth countries for a variety of reasons-defines displaced persons as "The movement of persons who have been forced or obliged to flee or to leave their homes or places of habitual residence, in particular as a result of or to avoid the effects of armed conflict, situations of generalized violence, violations of human rights or natural or humanmade disasters" (IOM, 2019). During wars, displaced persons seek freedom and safety, fleeing from conflict zones and violence; while others are looking for better economic opportunities (Becker &

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