Double lockdown: The effects of digital exclusion on undocumented immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic

Bastick, Zach; Mallet, Maxime

doi:10.1177/14614448211063185

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“…In particular, those underrepresented subpopulations may likely provide further insights into different subgroups who believe in misinformation. Several studies have highlighted immigrants' elevated risk of exposure to misinformation and difficulty in accessing needed information and resources during the COVID-19 pandemic [52][53][54]. Further research focusing on this under-represented community is therefore warranted.…”

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What predicts people’s belief in COVID-19 misinformation? A retrospective study using a nationwide online survey among adults residing in the United States

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Background Tackling infodemics with flooding misinformation is key to managing the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet only a few studies have attempted to understand the characteristics of the people who believe in misinformation. Methods Data was used from an online survey that was administered in April 2020 to 6518 English-speaking adult participants in the United States. We created binary variables to represent four misinformation categories related to COVID-19: general COVID-19-related, vaccine/anti-vaccine, COVID-19 as an act of bioterrorism, and mode of transmission. Using binary logistic regression and the LASSO regularization, we then identified the important predictors of belief in each type of misinformation. Nested vector bootstrapping approach was used to estimate the standard error of the LASSO coefficients. Results About 30% of our sample reported believing in at least one type of COVID-19-related misinformation. Belief in one type of misinformation was not strongly associated with belief in other types. We also identified 58 demographic and socioeconomic factors that predicted people’s susceptibility to at least one type of COVID-19 misinformation. Different groups, characterized by distinct sets of predictors, were susceptible to different types of misinformation. There were 25 predictors for general COVID-19 misinformation, 42 for COVID-19 vaccine, 36 for COVID-19 as an act of bioterrorism, and 27 for mode of COVID-transmission. Conclusion Our findings confirm the existence of groups with unique characteristics that believe in different types of COVID-19 misinformation. Findings are readily applicable by policymakers to inform careful targeting of misinformation mitigation strategies.

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What predicts people’s belief in COVID-19 misinformation? A retrospective study using a nationwide online survey among adults residing in the United States

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“…This would explain why the Google Trends measure predicts U.S.-born Latinos' psychological distress but not Latino noncitizens'. At the same time, the association of detainers with Latino noncitizens'but not U.S.-born Latinos'-psychological distress may reflect one or two complementary realities: either noncitizens are more attuned to national changes in detainers issued or detainers proxy this group's efforts to share information about interior immigration enforcement actions nationwide via social media channels like WhatsApp, as qualitative research suggests (76,77). Taken together, we believe that the distinct impact of our multiple measures urges greater scholarly attention to both institutional and social environments of deportation threat.…”

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Deportation threat predicts Latino US citizens and noncitizens’ psychological distress, 2011 to 2018

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Levesque,

Lewis

et al. 2024

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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The national context of deportation threat, defined as the federal government’s approach to deportation and/or deportation’s salience to the US public, fluctuated between 2011 and 2018. US Latinos across citizenship statuses may have experienced growing psychological distress associated with these changes, given their disproportionate personal or proximal vulnerabilities to deportation. Drawing on 8 y of public- and restricted-access data from the National Health Interview Survey (2011 to 2018), this article examines trends in psychological distress among Latinos who are US-born citizens, naturalized citizens, and noncitizens. It then seeks to explain these trends by considering two theoretical pathways through which the national context of deportation threat could distress Latinos: 1) through discrete dramatic societal events that independently signal a change to the country’s approach to deportation and/or that render deportation temporarily more salient to the public or 2) through more gradual changes to the country’s everyday institutional (i.e., quotidian efforts to detain and deport noncitizens) and social (i.e., deportation’s ongoing salience to a concerned public) environment of deportation threat. We find that, though both pathways matter to some degree, there is more consistent evidence that the gradual changes are associated with Latino US citizens and noncitizens’ overall experiences of psychological distress. The article highlights how, even absent observable spillover effects of dramatic societal events bearing on deportation threat, the institutional and social environment in which they occur implicates Latinos’ well-being.

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“…Digital exclusion was a barrier to telehealth services and it made migrants more vulnerable to misinformation about the virus (Bastick and Mallet-Garcia, 2022). These vulnerabilities manifested themselves in terms of poor access to digital technology or limited digital literacy, a set of disparities prominent among socio-economically precarious and medically disadvantaged populations.…”

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Healthcare (im)mobilities and the Covid-19 pandemic: Notes on returning to the field

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Burns

2023

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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This article proposes a mobilities-informed approach to social science research on healthcare and migration. It engages with evidence gathered during the Covid-19 pandemic that suggests that when confronted with a public health emergency, health systems can be responsive to the needs of mobile populations. During the Covid-19 lockdowns, health resources shifted routine services online, spurring an acceleration of telemedicine. The roll-out of these practices intersected with the phenomenon of digital exclusion, making healthcare partly or completely out of reach for those who could not connect. We argue that these efforts could have been more successful if they grew out of a recognition of healthcare's ‘sedentary bias’. National health systems are configured to serve settled populations. They are not designed for people on the move, with uncertain residential and immigration status. Yet this bias can be alleviated when health interventions are rethought from the point of view of the mobile patient.

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Double lockdown: The effects of digital exclusion on undocumented immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic

Cited by 34 publications

References 46 publications

What predicts people’s belief in COVID-19 misinformation? A retrospective study using a nationwide online survey among adults residing in the United States

What predicts people’s belief in COVID-19 misinformation? A retrospective study using a nationwide online survey among adults residing in the United States

Deportation threat predicts Latino US citizens and noncitizens’ psychological distress, 2011 to 2018

Healthcare (im)mobilities and the Covid-19 pandemic: Notes on returning to the field

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