Recent immigration raids and mass deportations have severely upended communities in California, including older adults. Advocates are developing data on the economic impact of these actions on sectors such as agriculture and construction. But what about long-term care?
Given the number of immigrants in our care workforce for older adults in California, we must better understand the financial implications of these practices on the long-term care sector. Developing this economic argument will equip advocates with the tools they need to fight for the dignity and well-being of frontline care workers and the older adults they serve.
Along with introductory remarks by Rigo Saborio, Archstone Foundation President and CEO, Shriram Parashuram from NORC at the University of Chicago and Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young from UC Merced provide a snapshot of available data on how immigration activity has and could impact CA's long-term care economy.
Following this context setting, Gerson Galdamez, Program Officer, moderates a conversation with community leaders Seciah Aquino from the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California and Romeo Hebron from the Filipino Migrant Center on how data can inform advocacy in this moment, and the work we have ahead to protect this essential workforce.
Slides: View Shriram Parashuram's presentation here.
Research: Beyond “Chilling Effects”: Latinx and Asian Immigrants’ Experiences With Enforcement and Barriers to Health Care
Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young, PhD, MPH, Sharon Tafolla, MPH, Altaf Saadi, MD, MS, May Sudhinaraset, PhD, Lei Chen, MPP, MSW, and Nadereh Pourat, PhD
In this paper, the authors share findings that confirm Latinx immigrants experience high levels of encounters with the enforcement system. The paper also highlights data on Asian immigrants’ enforcement encounters. Direct experiences with enforcement have a negative relationship with health care access. These findings have implications for health systems to address the needs of immigrants affected by enforcement and for changes to health and immigration policy to ensure immigrants’ access to care.
