Immigrant Health-Care Workers in the United States
Immigrants make up a disproportionately high number of U.S. health-care workers, from doctors and nurses to home health aides. In 2018, more than 2.6 million immigrants worked in the U.S. health-care...
View ArticleBrain Waste among U.S. Immigrants with Health Degrees: A Multi-State Profile
Across the United States, the skills of an estimated 263,000 immigrants and refugees with health-related degrees are going underutilized during a time of pandemic, with these health professionals...
View ArticleImmigration Enforcement and the Mental Health of Latino High School Students
This study explores the relationship between immigration enforcement and the mental health of Latino high school students, finding that majorities surveyed in both high- and low-enforcement...
View ArticleSupporting Immigrant and Refugee Families through Home Visiting: Innovative...
Although proven effective in supporting young children and their caretakers, home visiting programs are less likely to see the enrollment of immigrant and refugee families. This brief looks at the...
View ArticleThe Role of Immigrant Health-Care Professionals in the United States during...
With the U.S. health-care system buckling under the resurgent COVID-19 outbreak, policymakers could undertake efforts to enable skilled, underemployed international health-care professionals to...
View ArticleHow the Fear of Immigration Enforcement Affects the Mental Health of Latino...
The prevalence of mental-health symptoms among Latino high school students, immigrant and U.S. born alike, is closely related to their fears of immigration enforcement. And the situation may have...
View ArticleAnticipated “Chilling Effects” of the Public-Charge Rule Are Real: Census...
Researchers, service providers, and others have long predicted that sweeping revisions by the Trump administration to the definition of who constitutes a public charge would deter large numbers of...
View ArticleThe Integration of Immigrant Health Professionals: Looking beyond the...
The U.S. health-care workforce came under incredible strain during the COVID-19 pandemic. Longer-term trends—including the aging and increasing diversity of the U.S. population, and health-care worker...
View ArticleA Solvable Challenge: Improving Asylee Access to Health and Other Benefits
While asylees are eligible for many of the same public benefits and services as resettled refugees, including health care and employment assistance, there is no system to inform them of their...
View ArticleTranslating Into Success: Key Features of U.S. State & Local Language...
On this webinar, MPI researchers examine common features and notable areas of innovation they found in a scan of state and local language access laws and policies in more than 40 states, along with...
View ArticleOpportunities Exist to Better Reach Dual Language Learner and Immigrant...
Home visiting programs can offer critical integration-related supports, yet many Dual Language Learner (DLL) and immigrant families are known to be underserved. With reauthorization of the Maternal,...
View ArticleLeveraging the Skills of Immigrant Health-Care Professionals in Illinois and...
Immigrants play important roles across the U.S. health-care workforce, but not all of those with in-demand health and medical degrees are able to put their skills to work. Addressing this skill...
View ArticleImmigrant Children’s Medicaid and CHIP Access and Participation: A Data Profile
Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program help many children in low-income families access health care. But under federal rules, hundreds of thousands of children are ineligible due to...
View ArticleChanging the Playbook: Immigrants and the COVID-19 Response in Two U.S....
U.S. cities and towns have responded to COVID-19 in ways that are as diverse as the communities they aim to support. This report looks at how two very different locations—Worthington, MN, and the...
View ArticleThe Missing Link: Connecting Eligible Asylees and Asylum Seekers with...
Asylees in the United States are eligible for many of the same benefits and services as refugees, but many may not be aware of this fact. For asylum seekers awaiting a decision in their case, available...
View ArticleThe Public-Charge Final Rule Is Far from the Last Word
The Biden administration public-charge final rule undoes deep restrictions imposed during the Trump era, codifying much of the policy in place from 1999 to 2019. Yet confusion and fear over triggering...
View ArticleA Profile of Low-Income Immigrants in the United States
Immigrants in the United States experience strong economic mobility overall. But for some, limited educational attainment and English proficiency, and the challenges of restarting life in a new...
View ArticleSNAP Access and Participation in U.S.-Born and Immigrant Households: A Data...
The U.S. government created the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or food stamps, to combat food insecurity. Under federal law, many lawfully present noncitizens in poor households are...
View ArticleStrengthening Medical and Mental Health Services for Unaccompanied Children...
This conversation marks the launch of a report by the American Academy of Pediatrics and MPI examining unaccompanied children’s access to medical and mental health services post-release and offering...
View ArticleA Path to Meeting the Medical and Mental Health Needs of Unaccompanied...
As the number of unaccompanied children entering U.S. communities has increased, many have faced barriers to accessing critical medical and mental health services. This report explores common barriers...
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