The Profiles of Immigrants in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Focus on Economic Integration

Blyde, Juan S.; Cortes, Camila; Morales, Fernando; Pierola, Denisse

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“…Many migrant communities live in peri-urban areas surrounding Panamá City. The majority of migrants in Panamá and approximately half of migrants in Ecuador are female, most of whom are of reproductive age [ 20 ]. These three sites were selected because they have large and increasing populations of forced migrants and are diverse in terms of urbanicity, service delivery systems, populations, and other implementation factors.…”

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Evaluating the feasibility of a group psychosocial intervention for migrant and host community women in Ecuador and Panamá: protocol for a multi-site feasibility cluster trial

Greene

Bonz²,

Cristobal³

et al. 2022

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Background Community- and strengths-based psychosocial interventions are central to mental health and psychosocial support guidelines, but rigorous evidence regarding the effectiveness of these interventions is limited. The complexity and variability that is inherent to many community-based psychosocial interventions requires innovative strategies in order to facilitate the comparability and synthesis across research studies without compromising the fit and appropriateness of interventions to specific study populations and context. Entre Nosotras is a community-based psychosocial intervention developed for migrant and host community women that is designed to be flexible enough to enable integration of external intervention components and adaptable to diverse study contexts and populations. This protocol describes a study that aims to evaluate the appropriateness, acceptability, and feasibility of integrating a standardized stress management intervention into Entre Nosotras. Methods This study will evaluate the appropriateness, acceptability, feasibility, and safety of intervention and research procedures for a cluster randomized comparative effectiveness trial conducted in Ecuador and Panamá with migrant and host community women. In this feasibility trial, we will allocate communities nested within the three study sites to the integrated Entre Nosotras + stress management intervention versus Entre Nosotras alone through stratified randomization. Migrant and host community women residing in these study communities who report low to moderate levels of distress will be allocated to the intervention condition that their community is assigned (n = 220 total). We will collect quantitative measures of psychosocial wellbeing, psychological distress, coping, social support, and functioning from study participants. We will collect quantitative measures of fidelity and facilitator competencies through observation and facilitator self-assessment. Data on appropriateness, acceptability, feasibility, and safety will be gathered from participants and facilitators through quantitative assessments at 0, 5, and 10 weeks post-enrollment and qualitative interviews conducted with all facilitators and a subset of 70 study participants during the post-intervention follow-up period. Discussion Results from this feasibility trial will determine whether a multi-site cluster randomized comparative effectiveness trial of an adaptable community-based psychosocial intervention for migrant and host community women is relevant, acceptable, and feasible. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT05130944. Registered November 23, 2021—retrospectively registered.

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Evaluating the feasibility of a group psychosocial intervention for migrant and host community women in Ecuador and Panamá: protocol for a multi-site feasibility cluster trial

Greene

Bonz²,

Cristobal³

et al. 2022

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“…Many migrants settle in surrounding peri-urban areas. The majority of migrants in Panamá and approximately half of the migrants in Ecuador are female, most of whom are of reproductive age (Blyde et al, 2020). These three sites were selected because they have large migrant populations and are diverse in terms of urbanicity, service delivery systems, populations and other implementation factors.…”

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Mixed-methods evaluation of a group psychosocial intervention for refugee, migrant and host community women in Ecuador and Panamá: Results from theEntre Nosotrascluster randomized feasibility trial

Greene¹,

Bonz²,

Cristobal³

et al. 2023

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Community-based psychosocial interventions are key elements of mental health and psychosocial support; yet evidence regarding their effectiveness and implementation in humanitarian settings is limited. This study aimed to assess the appropriateness, acceptability, feasibility and safety of conducting a cluster randomized trial evaluating two versions of a group psychosocial intervention. Nine community clusters in Ecuador and Panamá were randomized to receive the standard version of the Entre Nosotras intervention, a community-based group psychosocial intervention co-designed with community members, or an enhanced version of Entre Nosotras that integrated a stress management component. In a sample of 225 refugees, migrants and host community women, we found that both versions were safe, acceptable and appropriate. Training lay facilitators to deliver the intervention was feasible. Challenges included slow recruitment related to delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, high attrition due to population mobility and other competing priorities, and mixed psychometric performance of psychosocial outcome measures. Although the intervention appeared promising, a definitive cluster randomized comparative effectiveness trial requires further adaptations to the research protocol. Within this pilot study we identified strategies to overcome these challenges that may inform adaptations. This comparative effectiveness design may be a model for identifying effective components of psychosocial interventions.

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“…in small establishments or even in the streets. Migrants' skill downgrading, which describes the situation of many migrants working in jobs for which they are overqualified, is common in many Latin American countries and Peru is no exception to this pattern (Blyde et al, 2020). 4 The objective of this paper is to study the short-term effects of the presence of Venezuelan migrants in the Peruvian labor market.…”

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Venezuelan Migration in Peru: Short-term Adjustments in the Labor Market

Morales¹,

Pierola²

2020

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The Profiles of Immigrants in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Focus on Economic Integration

Cited by 4 publications

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Evaluating the feasibility of a group psychosocial intervention for migrant and host community women in Ecuador and Panamá: protocol for a multi-site feasibility cluster trial

Evaluating the feasibility of a group psychosocial intervention for migrant and host community women in Ecuador and Panamá: protocol for a multi-site feasibility cluster trial

Mixed-methods evaluation of a group psychosocial intervention for refugee, migrant and host community women in Ecuador and Panamá: Results from theEntre Nosotrascluster randomized feasibility trial

Venezuelan Migration in Peru: Short-term Adjustments in the Labor Market

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