<i>Living in Limbo</i>: Latinas' Assessment of Lower Rio Grande Valley <i>Colonias</i> Communities

Messias, DeAnne K. Hilfinger; Sharpe, Patricia A.; Castillo-González, Lourdes del; Trevino, Laura; Parra‐Medina, Deborah

doi:10.1111/phn.12307

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“…The idea of “public” encompasses the perceptions of identity that users have of resources that are not intended for proprietary or exclusive use, whether for financial or other reasons: “ If you have to pay, then it’s not really a [community] ” [ 91 ] (p. 6).…”

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Dimensions of Community Assets for Health. A Systematised Review and Meta-Synthesis

Sáinz-Ruiz

Sanz-Valero

Gea-Caballero³

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Since Aaron Antonovsky’s salutogenesis theory and Morgan and Ziglio’s health assets model were first proposed, there has been a growing concern to define the resources available to the individual and the community to maintain or improve health and well-being. The aim of the present study was to identify the dimensions that characterise community assets for health. To this end, we conducted a systematised review with a meta-synthesis and content analysis of research or projects involving asset mapping in the community. Articles that met our eligibility criteria were: (1) based on the salutogenic approach and (2) described an assets mapping process and among their results, explained what, how and why particular community assets for health had been selected. The search included primary studies in the published and grey literature which were selected from websites and electronic databases (Web of Science, MEDLINE, Scopus, EBSCOhost, Dialnet, SciELO). Of the 607 records examined by a single reviewer, 34 were included in the content analysis and 14 in the qualitative synthesis. Using an inductive process, we identified 14 dimensions with 24 categories, for which in-depth literature reviews were then carried out to define specific indicators and items. These dimensions were: utility, intention, previous use, accessibility (“circumstances–opportunity–affordability”), proximity-walkability, connectivity, intelligibility (visibility, transparency), identity (uniqueness, appropriability, attachment), design (configuration, functionality, comfort), safety (objective/subjective), diversity, the dimension of public and private, and sustainability (which includes maintenance, profitability or economic sustainability, environmental sustainability, centrality-participation and equity-inclusiveness).

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“…"Safety concerns ranged from environmental hazards and limitations of the physical environment (e.g., few parks and green areas; poor maintenance of existing parks) to neighborhood threats (e.g., thefts, gangs, vandalism) and domestic violence." [91] (p. 5). "[ .…”

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Dimensions of Community Assets for Health. A Systematised Review and Meta-Synthesis

Sáinz-Ruiz

Sanz-Valero

Gea-Caballero³

et al. 2021

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“…Early research suggested U.S. colonias residents historically have been at risk for hepatitis, cholera, tuberculosis, dysentery and other waterborne disease due to poor water and sanitation (Hilfinger Messias et al, 2017). A 2000 study reported 89% prevalence of infection with the intestinal parasite Cryptosporidium parvum , the etiologic agent of cryptosporidiosis and Giardia lamblia , among children in seven Texas colonias (Leach et al, 2000).…”

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Water insecurity in the Global North: A review of experiences in U.S. colonias communities along the Mexico border

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Since the late 1970s, the term "colonias" (in English) has described low-income, peri-urban, and rural subdivisions north of the U.S.-Mexico border. These communities are in arid and semi-arid regions-now in a megadrought-and tend to have limited basic infrastructure, including community water service and sanitation. Recent scholarship has demonstrated how colonias residents experience unjust and inequitable dynamics that produce water insecurity in the Global North. In this review, we explain why U.S. colonias are an important example for theorizing water insecurity in the United States and beyond in the Global North. Tracing the history of water infrastructure development in U.S. colonias, we show how colonias are legally and socially defined by water insecurity. We draw on the published literature to discuss key factors that produce water insecurity in U.S. colonias: political exclusion, municipal underbounding, and failures in water quality monitoring. We show that water insecurity had led to negative outcomes-including poor water access, risks to physical health, and mental ill-health-in U.S. colonias. We present four possible approaches to improving water security in U.S. colonias: (1) soft paths & social infrastructure for water delivery, (2) decentralized water treatment approaches, such as pointof-use, point-of-entry, and fit-for-purpose systems; (3) informality, including infrastructural, economic, and socio-cultural innovations; and (4) political, policy, and law innovations and reforms. At the same time, we reflect seriously on how water security can be ethically achieved in partnership and aligning with the visions of U.S. colonias residents themselves.

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“…Poor environmental conditions in the region are connected to poor physical and mental health especially in the colonias, which are informal, unregulated periphery urban subdivisions (Hilfinger Messias et al 2017;Marquez-Velarde et al 2015;Mier et al 2008;O'Connor et al 2008). The term, colonia, means neighborhood or community in Spanish (Hilfinger Messias et al 2017).…”

Section: Environmental Concernsmentioning

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Re-Examination of Quality of Life Indicators in US - Mexico Border Cities: a Critical Review

Talmage

Pijawka

Hagen

2019

Int. Journal of Com. WB

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Living in Limbo: Latinas' Assessment of Lower Rio Grande Valley Colonias Communities

Cited by 11 publications

References 20 publications

Dimensions of Community Assets for Health. A Systematised Review and Meta-Synthesis

Dimensions of Community Assets for Health. A Systematised Review and Meta-Synthesis

Water insecurity in the Global North: A review of experiences in U.S. colonias communities along the Mexico border

Re-Examination of Quality of Life Indicators in US - Mexico Border Cities: a Critical Review

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