Institute of Health Equity and Social Justice Research, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA, 02115, USA; Department of Health Sciences, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
Institute of Health Equity and Social Justice Research, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA, 02115, USA; Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
Health Place. 2022 May;75:102822. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2022.102822. Epub 2022 May 19.
As the United States (U.S.) continues to prioritize federal immigration enforcement, subnational localities increasingly enact their own immigration policies. Cities limiting cooperation with federal immigration enforcement are commonly referred to as sanctuary cities, which aim to improve immigrant safety and wellbeing. Yet, little is known about how these cities accomplish this beyond immigration enforcement non-cooperation. We draw from qualitative interviews with 54 organizational workers in Seattle, Washington and Boston, Massachusetts. Our findings illuminate lingering challenges immigrants face within sanctuary cities and demonstrate how organizational workers mitigate the shortcomings of sanctuary policies to addressing broad definitions of safety and health by enacting their own sanctuary practices.
随着美国继续优先执行联邦移民执法，州以下的地方越来越多地制定自己的移民政策。限制与联邦移民执法合作的城市通常被称为“庇护城市”，旨在提高移民的安全和福祉。然而，除了不合作执行移民执法之外，这些城市如何实现这一目标知之甚少。我们从华盛顿州西雅图和马萨诸塞州波士顿的 54 名组织工作人员的定性访谈中得出了这些发现。我们的研究结果揭示了庇护城市中移民仍然面临的挑战，并展示了组织工作人员如何通过实施自己的庇护实践来减轻庇护政策的缺陷，以应对更广泛的安全和健康定义。
