Change in birth outcomes among infants born to Latina mothers after a major immigration raid

Background: Growing evidence indicates that immigration policy and enforcement adversely affect the well-being of Latino immigrants, but fewer studies examine ‘spillover effects’ on USA-born Latinos. Immigration enforcement is often diffuse, covert and difficult to measure. By contrast, the federal...

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Published in:International Journal Of Epidemiology
Main Authors: Novak, Nicole L, Geronimus, Arline T, Martinez-Cardoso, Aresha M
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2017
Subjects:
Child and Infant Health
Postville
Online Access:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5837605/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28115577
https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyw346
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Summary:Background: Growing evidence indicates that immigration policy and enforcement adversely affect the well-being of Latino immigrants, but fewer studies examine ‘spillover effects’ on USA-born Latinos. Immigration enforcement is often diffuse, covert and difficult to measure. By contrast, the federal immigration raid in Postville, Iowa, in 2008 was, at the time, the largest single-site federal immigration raid in US history.

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