Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young
Biographic Data
| ID | 94124 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria-Elena De Trinidad |
| FAMILY NAME | Young |
| SIGNATURE | YOUNG M T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Merced |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7426-7870 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 122 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Recent Exclusionary Immigration Policy Experiences are Associated with Worse Asian and Latino Immigrant Health
This study examined Asian and Latino immigrants' recent exclusionary experiences with immigration policy, such as knowing someone deported, being racially profiled, or being denied health insurance, and their relationship with health care access and health status. The 2018-2020 Research on Immigrant Health and State Policy survey asked adult Asian and Latino immigrants (N = 2,010, Asian n = 1,004, Latino n = 1,006) if they had experienced any of …
Employment Exclusions and Health Care Access among Latine and Asian Immigrants in the Context of Racialization
Latine immigrants face a greater number of barriers to employment opportunities and protections of worker rights compared to Asians, while employment exclusions and past legal status drives poorer health care utilization
Immigration Policies Shape Latinos’ Trust in Health Information
Measuring county-level immigration policy contexts that may influence Latino health in California
Studies have examined the impact of federal and state immigration policies on Latino immigrant health. Few studies have investigated the effects of local policies that shape access to services, resources, and opportunities among Latino and immigrant populations. This article presents a framework and measures to describe county-level immigration policy contexts. We developed multisectoral indicators of immigration policy contexts by linking polici…
The legacy of immigration policies and employment exclusion
Restrictive federal and state immigration policies create conditions of employment exclusion that may negatively influence the health of immigrants. In particular, these policy effects are reflected in labor market and workplace experiences that determine the types of work and employment opportunities that immigrants are able to access and pursue. This study examines the relationship between both cumulative and individual measures of employment e…
Lessons from Two Latino Communities Working with Academic Partners to Increase Access to Covid-19 Testing
Objective: We sought to examine the experiences of community partners in a community–academic partnership to promote COVID-19 testing in two majority Latino communities. Methods: We conducted semistructured, in-depth interviews in English and Spanish with community-based organization leaders and community health workers/ promotoras ( n = 10) from June to July 2021. Interviews focused on identifying partner roles in planning and testing implementa…
Lessons from Two Latino Communities Working with Academic Partners to Increase Access to Covid-19 Testing
Community-academic partnerships that invest in strong relationships, community leadership, and a commitment to the community's preferred language offer a promising approach to addressing COVID-19 testing barriers. Findings provide direction for future research on how community members and academic partners can come together to inform strategies to continue addressing the COVID-19 pandemic
Organizational Impacts of Restrictive Immigration Policy on Rural Safety Net Organizations
Safety net organizations in rural regions face structural barriers to providing services. Organizations that serve rural Latino communities may face additional barriers related to restrictive immigration policies and anti‐immigrant climates. This study examines the impacts of restrictive immigration policies on safety net organizations that provide critical services to Latinos in rural areas to elucidate the mechanisms by which immigration polici…
Health Care Access and Utilization and the Latino Health Paradox
BACKGROUND: The Latino health paradox is the phenomenon whereby recent Latino immigrants have, on average, better health outcomes on some indicators than Latino immigrants who have lived in the United States longer and US-born Latinos and non-Latino Whites. This study examined whether the paradox holds after accounting for health care access and utilization. METHODS: The 2019-2020 National Health Interview Survey data were used. The main predicto…
The "disproportionate costs" of immigrant policy on the health of Latinx and Asian immigrants
Mental health among rural Latino immigrants during the Covid-19 pandemic
The mental health of the United States' Latino population significantly deteriorated during the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic, and Latino immigrants living in rural areas faced unique vulnerabilities. However, few studies have specifically examined the mental health burden and experiences of rural Latino immigrants during the COVID pandemic. To understand the mental health experiences of first- and second-generation Latinos in rural areas, we co…
The Influence of Organizational Aspects of the U.S. Agricultural Industry and Socioeconomic and Political Conditions on Farmworkers’ Covid-19 Workplace Safety
Farmworkers in the U.S. experienced high rates of COVID-19 infection and mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their workplace may have been a significant place of exposure to the novel coronavirus. Using political economy of health theory, this study sought to understand how organizational aspects of the agricultural industry and broader socioeconomic and political conditions shaped farmworkers' COVID-19 workplace safety during the pandemic. B…
Immigrants’ Enforcement Experiences and Concern about Accessing Public Benefits or Services
Although exclusionary immigration policies are associated with fear of deportation and avoidance of public benefits, relationships between immigration enforcement policy and public charge policies are largely unknown. Using a California population-based survey of 1103 Asian and Latinx immigrants in 2018, we tested the relationship between immigrants' experiences with law enforcement and their concern about public charge. Direct encounters with va…
Cumulative Experiences of Immigration Enforcement Policy and the Physical and Mental Health Outcomes of Asian and Latinx Immigrants in the United States
Immigration enforcement policies in the United States and other nations have long been enacted and implemented as intentional tools of racial control. There is mounting evidence that immigration raids, arrests, and deportations in the United States are associated with poor immigrant health outcomes, but this research has primarily focused on associations between health and single, specific enforcement actions or experiences that may not capture t…
Dismantling Structural Racism by Advancing Immigrant Health
p. S72) make a critical call to bring a structural racism framework into efforts to promote immigrants' mental health.Mounting public health research shows that structures and systems of racism are associated with poor health, yet there have been limited applications of a structural racism framework to immigrant health research or practice. 1As Cerda et al. highlight, structural racism can harm immigrants' health through processes such as policie…
Beyond “Chilling Effects”
OBJECTIVES: Immigration enforcement policies are associated with immigrants' barriers to health care. Current evidence suggests that enforcement creates a "chilling effect" in which immigrants avoid care due to fear of encountering enforcement. Yet, there has been little examination of the impact of immigrants' direct encounters with enforcement on health care access. We examined some of the first population-level data on Asian and Latinx immigra…
The structural impacts of enforcement policy on Latino immigrant health
As evidence of the negative health impact of immigration enforcement policy continues to mount, public health research has focused primarily on the psychosocial health mechanisms, such as fear and stress, by which immigration enforcement may harm health. We build on this research using structural vulnerability theory to investigate the structural processes by which enforcement policy may shape Latino immigrants' health. We conducted qualitative a…
Self-rated health of both US citizens and noncitizens is associated with state-level immigrant criminalization policies
Evidence shows that state-level restrictive immigrant policies are associated with health disparities between noncitizens and citizens. Most research has focused on Latinos and there is limited knowledge of the relationship between restrictive policies and citizenship status among other groups, particularly Asian and Pacific Islanders (API). We examined whether state-level criminalization policy contexts (e.g., law enforcement collaboration with …
Association between immigration enforcement encounters and Covid-19 testing and delays in care
Immigration enforcement encounters compound barriers to COVID-19 testing and treatment for undocumented immigrants
Social exclusion at the intersections of immigration, employment, and healthcare policy
While immigrants in the US suffer poor access to healthcare in general, access within immigrant populations varies notably by legal status and employment. Intersections between immigration, employment, and healthcare policy have shaped immigrants' access or exclusion from healthcare; however, little research has examined how immigrants experience and navigate these intersections. Drawing on social exclusion theory and the theory of bounded agency…
Working around safety net exclusions during the Covid-19 pandemic
Rural Latinx immigrants experienced disproportionately negative health and economic impacts during the COVID-19 pandemic. They contended with the pandemic at the intersection of legal status exclusions from the safety net and long-standing barriers to health care in rural regions. Yet, little is known about how rural Latinx immigrants navigated such exclusions. In this qualitative study, we examined how legal status stratification in rural contex…
Release from US immigration detention may improve physical and psychological stress and health
Imprisonment in the U.S. criminal legal system is associated with adverse health outcomes, but we know far less about the health consequences of immigration detention. Also understudied is whether and how the health of formerly incarcerated people, including individuals detained by immigration authorities, may change following release from imprisonment. This study is the first to assess changes to psychological and physical stress and general hea…
Cumulative Risk of Immigration Prison Conditions on Health Outcomes Among Detained Immigrants in California
OBJECTIVES: The USA maintains the world's largest immigration detention system. This study examines the mechanisms by which detention serves as a catalyst for worsening health. METHODS: Using data from detained immigrants in California (n = 493) from 2013 to 2014, we assessed the prevalence of exposure to conditions of confinement hypothesized to negatively influence health; the extent to which conditions of confinement are associated with psycho…
Preventing the Spread of Covid-19 in Immigration Detention Centers Requires the Release of Detainees
Immigration detention centers are densely populated facilities in which restrictive conditions limit detainees’ abilities to engage in social distancing or hygiene practices designed to prevent the spread of COVID-19. With tens of thousands of adults and children in more than 200 immigration detention centers across the United States, immigration detention centers are likely to experience COVID-19 outbreaks and add substantially to the population…
A Window of Opportunity Is Opening to Improve Immigrant Health
Included, but Deportable
There has been a burst of research on immigrant health in the United States and an increasing attention to the broad range of state and local policies that are social determinants of immigrant health. Many of these policies criminalize immigrants by regulating the “legality” of their day-to-day lives while others function to integrate immigrants through expanded rights and eligibility for health care, social services, and other resources. Researc…
Legal Status, Time in the USA, and the Well-Being of Latinos in Los Angeles
More Inclusive States, Less Poverty Among Immigrants? An Examination of Poverty, Citizenship Stratification, and State Immigrant Policies
Inclusive state immigrant policies and health insurance among Latino, Asian/Pacific Islander, Black, and White noncitizens in the United States
Objectives: Policy-making related to immigrant populations is increasingly conducted at the state-level. State policy contexts may influence health insurance coverage by determining noncitizens' access to social and economic resources and shaping social environments. Using nationally representative data, we investigate the relationship between level of inclusion of state immigrant policies and health insurance coverage and its variation by citize…
Social exclusion at the intersections of immigration, employment, and healthcare policy
While immigrants in the US suffer poor access to healthcare in general, access within immigrant populations varies notably by legal status and employment. Intersections between immigration, employment, and healthcare policy have shaped immigrants' access or exclusion from healthcare; however, little research has examined how immigrants experience and navigate these intersections. Drawing on social exclusion theory and the theory of bounded agency…
Cumulative Experiences of Immigration Enforcement Policy and the Physical and Mental Health Outcomes of Asian and Latinx Immigrants in the United States
Immigration enforcement policies in the United States and other nations have long been enacted and implemented as intentional tools of racial control. There is mounting evidence that immigration raids, arrests, and deportations in the United States are associated with poor immigrant health outcomes, but this research has primarily focused on associations between health and single, specific enforcement actions or experiences that may not capture t…
Working around safety net exclusions during the Covid-19 pandemic
Rural Latinx immigrants experienced disproportionately negative health and economic impacts during the COVID-19 pandemic. They contended with the pandemic at the intersection of legal status exclusions from the safety net and long-standing barriers to health care in rural regions. Yet, little is known about how rural Latinx immigrants navigated such exclusions. In this qualitative study, we examined how legal status stratification in rural contex…
Dismantling Structural Racism by Advancing Immigrant Health
p. S72) make a critical call to bring a structural racism framework into efforts to promote immigrants' mental health.Mounting public health research shows that structures and systems of racism are associated with poor health, yet there have been limited applications of a structural racism framework to immigrant health research or practice. 1As Cerda et al. highlight, structural racism can harm immigrants' health through processes such as policie…
Cross-Cultural Researchers' Positionality in Immigrant Health Research
While a growing body of research has examined immigrants' health generally, less is known specifically about the impact of immigration policy on the health of Chinese immigrants, the second-largest foreign-born population in the United States. This is due, in part, to the lack of methodologically well-trained, cross-cultural researchers who have both the cultural and linguistic expertise and health knowledge to engage with Chinese immigrant popul…
The "disproportionate costs" of immigrant policy on the health of Latinx and Asian immigrants
Preventing the Spread of Covid-19 in Immigration Detention Centers Requires the Release of Detainees
Immigration detention centers are densely populated facilities in which restrictive conditions limit detainees’ abilities to engage in social distancing or hygiene practices designed to prevent the spread of COVID-19. With tens of thousands of adults and children in more than 200 immigration detention centers across the United States, immigration detention centers are likely to experience COVID-19 outbreaks and add substantially to the population…
A Window of Opportunity Is Opening to Improve Immigrant Health
Inclusive state immigrant policies and health insurance among Latino, Asian/Pacific Islander, Black, and White noncitizens in the United States
Objectives: Policy-making related to immigrant populations is increasingly conducted at the state-level. State policy contexts may influence health insurance coverage by determining noncitizens' access to social and economic resources and shaping social environments. Using nationally representative data, we investigate the relationship between level of inclusion of state immigrant policies and health insurance coverage and its variation by citize…
Legal Status, Time in the USA, and the Well-Being of Latinos in Los Angeles
A social determinants framework identifying state-level immigrant policies and their influence on health
Many conceptual frameworks that touch on immigration and health have been published over the past several years. Most discuss broad social trends or specific immigrant policies, but few address how the policy environment affects the context of settlement and incorporation. Research on the social determinants of health shows how policies across multiple sectors have an impact on health status and health services, but has not yet identified the pol…
More Inclusive States, Less Poverty Among Immigrants? An Examination of Poverty, Citizenship Stratification, and State Immigrant Policies
Included, but Deportable
There has been a burst of research on immigrant health in the United States and an increasing attention to the broad range of state and local policies that are social determinants of immigrant health. Many of these policies criminalize immigrants by regulating the “legality” of their day-to-day lives while others function to integrate immigrants through expanded rights and eligibility for health care, social services, and other resources. Researc…
States with fewer criminalizing immigrant policies have smaller health care inequities between citizens and noncitizens
Criminalization policies shape the construction of citizenship stratification across geography, such as exacerbating inequities in health care access by citizenship
Cardiovascular disease behavioral risk factors among Latinos by citizenship and documentation status
This study observes that the healthy Latino immigrant advantage seems to apply to undocumented female immigrants, but it does not necessarily extend to undocumented male immigrants who had similar behavioral risk profiles to US-born Latinos
Laboring With the Heart
Little is known about promotoras' professional experiences engaging in Latinx health promotion. In this promotora-led community-based participatory study, we purposively recruited and interviewed 30 Spanish-speaking promotoras who worked in Los Angeles County and who had at least 5 years of experience as promotoras. Using a constructivist grounded theory approach, findings revealed promotoras self-identified as health professionals who offered un…
Release from US immigration detention may improve physical and psychological stress and health
Imprisonment in the U.S. criminal legal system is associated with adverse health outcomes, but we know far less about the health consequences of immigration detention. Also understudied is whether and how the health of formerly incarcerated people, including individuals detained by immigration authorities, may change following release from imprisonment. This study is the first to assess changes to psychological and physical stress and general hea…
Cumulative Risk of Immigration Prison Conditions on Health Outcomes Among Detained Immigrants in California
OBJECTIVES: The USA maintains the world's largest immigration detention system. This study examines the mechanisms by which detention serves as a catalyst for worsening health. METHODS: Using data from detained immigrants in California (n = 493) from 2013 to 2014, we assessed the prevalence of exposure to conditions of confinement hypothesized to negatively influence health; the extent to which conditions of confinement are associated with psycho…
Preventing the Spread of Covid-19 in Immigration Detention Centers Requires the Release of Detainees
Immigration detention centers are densely populated facilities in which restrictive conditions limit detainees’ abilities to engage in social distancing or hygiene practices designed to prevent the spread of COVID-19. With tens of thousands of adults and children in more than 200 immigration detention centers across the United States, immigration detention centers are likely to experience COVID-19 outbreaks and add substantially to the population…
A Window of Opportunity Is Opening to Improve Immigrant Health
Cross-Cultural Researchers' Positionality in Immigrant Health Research
While a growing body of research has examined immigrants' health generally, less is known specifically about the impact of immigration policy on the health of Chinese immigrants, the second-largest foreign-born population in the United States. This is due, in part, to the lack of methodologically well-trained, cross-cultural researchers who have both the cultural and linguistic expertise and health knowledge to engage with Chinese immigrant popul…
The structural impacts of enforcement policy on Latino immigrant health
As evidence of the negative health impact of immigration enforcement policy continues to mount, public health research has focused primarily on the psychosocial health mechanisms, such as fear and stress, by which immigration enforcement may harm health. We build on this research using structural vulnerability theory to investigate the structural processes by which enforcement policy may shape Latino immigrants' health. We conducted qualitative a…
Self-rated health of both US citizens and noncitizens is associated with state-level immigrant criminalization policies
Evidence shows that state-level restrictive immigrant policies are associated with health disparities between noncitizens and citizens. Most research has focused on Latinos and there is limited knowledge of the relationship between restrictive policies and citizenship status among other groups, particularly Asian and Pacific Islanders (API). We examined whether state-level criminalization policy contexts (e.g., law enforcement collaboration with …
Association between immigration enforcement encounters and Covid-19 testing and delays in care
Immigration enforcement encounters compound barriers to COVID-19 testing and treatment for undocumented immigrants
Social exclusion at the intersections of immigration, employment, and healthcare policy
While immigrants in the US suffer poor access to healthcare in general, access within immigrant populations varies notably by legal status and employment. Intersections between immigration, employment, and healthcare policy have shaped immigrants' access or exclusion from healthcare; however, little research has examined how immigrants experience and navigate these intersections. Drawing on social exclusion theory and the theory of bounded agency…
Working around safety net exclusions during the Covid-19 pandemic
Rural Latinx immigrants experienced disproportionately negative health and economic impacts during the COVID-19 pandemic. They contended with the pandemic at the intersection of legal status exclusions from the safety net and long-standing barriers to health care in rural regions. Yet, little is known about how rural Latinx immigrants navigated such exclusions. In this qualitative study, we examined how legal status stratification in rural contex…
Mental health among rural Latino immigrants during the Covid-19 pandemic
The mental health of the United States' Latino population significantly deteriorated during the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic, and Latino immigrants living in rural areas faced unique vulnerabilities. However, few studies have specifically examined the mental health burden and experiences of rural Latino immigrants during the COVID pandemic. To understand the mental health experiences of first- and second-generation Latinos in rural areas, we co…
The Influence of Organizational Aspects of the U.S. Agricultural Industry and Socioeconomic and Political Conditions on Farmworkers’ Covid-19 Workplace Safety
Farmworkers in the U.S. experienced high rates of COVID-19 infection and mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their workplace may have been a significant place of exposure to the novel coronavirus. Using political economy of health theory, this study sought to understand how organizational aspects of the agricultural industry and broader socioeconomic and political conditions shaped farmworkers' COVID-19 workplace safety during the pandemic. B…
Immigrants’ Enforcement Experiences and Concern about Accessing Public Benefits or Services
Although exclusionary immigration policies are associated with fear of deportation and avoidance of public benefits, relationships between immigration enforcement policy and public charge policies are largely unknown. Using a California population-based survey of 1103 Asian and Latinx immigrants in 2018, we tested the relationship between immigrants' experiences with law enforcement and their concern about public charge. Direct encounters with va…
Cumulative Experiences of Immigration Enforcement Policy and the Physical and Mental Health Outcomes of Asian and Latinx Immigrants in the United States
Immigration enforcement policies in the United States and other nations have long been enacted and implemented as intentional tools of racial control. There is mounting evidence that immigration raids, arrests, and deportations in the United States are associated with poor immigrant health outcomes, but this research has primarily focused on associations between health and single, specific enforcement actions or experiences that may not capture t…
Dismantling Structural Racism by Advancing Immigrant Health
p. S72) make a critical call to bring a structural racism framework into efforts to promote immigrants' mental health.Mounting public health research shows that structures and systems of racism are associated with poor health, yet there have been limited applications of a structural racism framework to immigrant health research or practice. 1As Cerda et al. highlight, structural racism can harm immigrants' health through processes such as policie…
Beyond “Chilling Effects”
OBJECTIVES: Immigration enforcement policies are associated with immigrants' barriers to health care. Current evidence suggests that enforcement creates a "chilling effect" in which immigrants avoid care due to fear of encountering enforcement. Yet, there has been little examination of the impact of immigrants' direct encounters with enforcement on health care access. We examined some of the first population-level data on Asian and Latinx immigra…
The legacy of immigration policies and employment exclusion
Restrictive federal and state immigration policies create conditions of employment exclusion that may negatively influence the health of immigrants. In particular, these policy effects are reflected in labor market and workplace experiences that determine the types of work and employment opportunities that immigrants are able to access and pursue. This study examines the relationship between both cumulative and individual measures of employment e…
Immigration (29 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (29 works) · Political science (29 works) · Medicine (23 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Law (17 works) · Environmental health (15 works) · Economics (12 works) · Population (12 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (11 works)