Brittany N. Morey is with the School of Public Policy, University of California, Riverside.
Am J Public Health. 2018 Apr;108(4):460-463. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2017.304266. Epub 2018 Feb 22.
Anti-immigrant rhetoric and political actions gained prominence and public support before, during, and after the 2016 presidential election. This anti-immigrant political environment threatens to increase health disparities among undocumented persons, immigrant groups, and people of color. I discuss the mechanisms by which anti-immigrant stigma exacerbates racial/ethnic health disparities through increasing multilevel discrimination and stress, deportation and detention, and policies that limit health resources. I argue that the anti-immigrant sociopolitical context is a social determinant of health that affects mostly communities of color, both immigrants and nonimmigrants. Public health has a moral obligation to consider how immigration policy is health policy and to be prepared to respond to worsening health disparities as a result of anti-immigrant racism.
在 2016 年总统选举之前、期间和之后，反移民言论和政治行动都备受关注并得到了公众的支持。这种反移民的政治环境有可能加剧无证移民、移民群体和有色人种之间的健康差距。我讨论了反移民污名通过增加多层次歧视和压力、驱逐和拘留以及限制卫生资源的政策，加剧种族/族裔健康差距的机制。我认为，反移民的社会政治环境是影响主要是有色人种社区的移民和非移民的健康的社会决定因素。公共卫生有道德义务考虑移民政策就是健康政策，并为应对因反移民种族主义而导致的健康差距恶化做好准备。
