Team-based urgent response: A model for community advocacy in an era of increased immigration law enforcement

Lopez, William D.; Martin, Kerry; Sonday, Laura; Stephens, Alexander M.; Lemler, Anna C.; Ibarra-Frayre, Maria; Martinez, Ramiro; Harner, Melanie; Harner, Margaret; Perrone, Mary Anne; Sanders, Laura

doi:10.1080/10705422.2020.1717711

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“…ISOs play a crucial brokerage role in helping immigrants access health-related information and other important resources [ 1 ]. In addition to providing medical care, community health workers [ 2 ], urgent response groups [ 3 ], and federally qualified health centers [ 4 ] often help vulnerable communities to access language services, transportation, and nutrition. These services have been shown to address key predictors of contracting COVID-19 [ 5 ].…”

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“Which Clinic? Pre-Covid or Post-Covid?”: Immigration Policy Uncertainty, Immigrant Serving Organization, and the Response to COVID-19

Doering-White

Roth

Woo

2022

J Immigrant Minority Health

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Background This article examines how immigration policy uncertainty during the Trump presidency shaped how immigrant serving organizations (ISOs) responded to the needs of immigrant community members in the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods We draw on semi-structured interviews conducted over the summer of 2020 with 31 directors and program coordinators of ISOs and health clinics in three southern states (KY, NC, SC). Results Responding to anti-immigrant policies laid the groundwork for organizations to respond quickly and nimbly to COVID-19 related upheavals. However, organizational flexibility may signal organizational precarity, especially given the long-term impacts of both Trump administration immigration policies and the COVID-19 pandemic. Discussion Our findings underline how ISOs facilitate access to health and social services for immigrant families. Our findings suggest that this organizational adaptability may signal a relationship between organizational precarity and immigration policy uncertainty that could have an impact well beyond the pandemic.

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