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Annotated Bibliography on Immigration Health

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Immigration Health

Immigration is the act of international movement of people to the destination country. Immigration is necessary for those who don’t belong to the nation they aim to move for. The immigrant population is increasingly gaining the focus in public health research (Castañeda et al., 2015). It is a social determinant of health determinants (Hatzenbuehler et al., 2017). One of the important barriers for immigrants is separation from family, language barrier and feeling loss. Low literacy and lack of general awareness makes it difficult to get proper healthcare services (von Werthern et al., 2018). At the first instance, the health of immigrants at arrival to country is the matter to be wisely considered. An increase in stress may lead to excess glycogen and fat production along with suppression of insulin. This is main risk factor for prognosis of diabetes mellitus (Steppan et al., 2001). Mental stress is also a risk factor that may contribute to depression and anxiety (Alegría et al., 2017). Visa stress is associated with visa process(Becerra et al., 2020). The stress begins with first filing, proceedings and ends with LPR admission (Castañeda et al., 2015; Saraswati, 2010). Health research on immigration is focused on health behavior (including political, economic and social forces). The second framework includes emphasis on culture of immigrants and the third one focuses on institutional and political structure that influences the health of immigrants (Giuntella et al., 2018; Olsen et al., 2018). Thus, there is priority to carry out research and understand the health needs of the population by the global phenomenon

References

Alegría, M., Álvarez, K., & DiMarzio, K. (2017). Immigration and mental health. Current Epidemiology Reports, 4(2), 145–155.

Becerra, D., Hernandez, G., Porchas, F., Castillo, J., Nguyen, V., & Perez González, R. (2020). Immigration policies and mental health: examining the relationship between immigration enforcement and depression, anxiety, and stress among Latino immigrants. Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work, 1–17.

Castañeda, H., Holmes, S. M., Madrigal, D. S., Young, M.-E. D., Beyeler, N., & Quesada, J. (2015). Immigration as a social determinant of health. Annual Review of Public Health, 36, 375–392.

Giuntella, O., Kone, Z. L., Ruiz, I., & Vargas-Silva, C. (2018). Reason for immigration and immigrants’ health. Public Health, 158, 102–109.

Hatzenbuehler, M. L., Prins, S. J., Flake, M., Philbin, M., Frazer, M. S., Hagen, D., & Hirsch, J. (2017). Immigration policies and mental health morbidity among Latinos: A state-level analysis. Social Science & Medicine, 174, 169–178.

Olsen, S., & Anderson, K. M. (2018). Immigration as a social determinant of health: Proceedings of a workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. http://dx. doi. org/10.17226/25204.

Saraswati, L. R. (2010). Health transition of international migrants: A study of Indian and Chinese immigrants in the US. IMDS Working Paper Series, Working Paper.59-63

Steppan, C. M., Bailey, S. T., Bhat, S., Brown, E. J., Banerjee, R. R., Wright, C. M., Patel, H. R., Ahima, R. S., & Lazar, M. A. (2001). The hormone resistin links obesity to diabetes. Nature, 409(6818), 307–312.

von Werthern, M., Robjant, K., Chui, Z., Schon, R., Ottisova, L., Mason, C., & Katona, C. (2018). The impact of immigration detention on mental health: a systematic review. BMC Psychiatry, 18(1), 1–19.