Immigration and Gender as Social Determinants of Mental Health during the COVID-19 Outbreak: The Case of US Latina/os

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Sylvia Manzano¹  Melanie Sayuri Dominguez²  Barbara Gomez-Aguinaga³ 

[1] BSP Research, Agoura Hills, CA 91301, USA;Department of Political Science, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA;School of Public Administration, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE 68182, USA;

关键词: COVID-19;    health inequities;    mental health;    pandemic;    intersectionality;    Latina/os;   

DOI  :  10.3390/ijerph18116065

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

While men and women make up a similar number of COVID-19 cases, and are equally likely to know someone who has become ill due to the virus, the gendered and systemic implications of immigration during public health emergencies among minority groups in the United States are empirically underexplored. Using the SOMOS COVID-19 Crisis National Latino Survey, we conduct a series of intersectional analyses to understand the extent to which personal experiences with COVID-19, gendered structural factors, and spillover effects of US immigration policies impact the mental health of US Latina/os during a public health emergency. The results show that among Latinas, knowing an undocumented immigrant and someone ill with COVID-19 increases the probability of reporting worse mental outcomes by 52 percent. Furthermore, being a woman increases the probability of reporting the highest level of mental health problems by 30 percent among Hispanic people who know someone with COVID-19 and an undocumented immigrant. These findings indicate that the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak among US Latinas and Latinos are entrenched in gendered and systemic inequalities.

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