ArticleSociological forum (Randolph, N.J.)2011
Risk as Social Context: Immigration Policy and Autism in California.
Article in Sociological forum (Randolph, N.J.), 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 56 citations in OpenAlex.
- A Systematic Review of Help-Seeking Barriers for Racial-Ethnic Minority Caregivers Accessing Autism Diagnostic and Intervention Services.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Pooled it
- The adverse health effects of punitive immigrant policies in the United States: A systematic review.PloS one · 2020Pooled it
- Evaluating the impact of immigration policies on health status among undocumented immigrants: a systematic review.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2015Pooled it
- A Randomized Waitlist-Control Group Study of a Culturally Tailored Parent Education Intervention for Latino Parents of Children with ASD.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2020Trial
- Accelerating autism prevalence in California with changepoint in the mid-2010s and divergence by county and socioeconomic indicators.SAGE open medicine · 2026Article
- The impact of immigrant-specific policies and programmes on maternal, perinatal and paediatric outcomes: a scoping review.BMJ public health · 2025Article
- Environmental Influences on Individuals with Autistic Spectrum Disorders with Special Emphasis on Seasonality: An Overview.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- ASD Diagnosis and Treatment Experiences Among Mexican Heritage Families.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2023Article
- Ethical Machine Learning in Healthcare.Annual review of biomedical data science · 2021Article
- Disparities in the quality of and access to services in children with autism spectrum disorders: a structural equation modeling.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2021Article
- Employer Verification Mandates and Infant Health.Population research and policy review · 2020Article
- California Autism Prevalence by County and Race/Ethnicity: Declining Trends Among Wealthy Whites.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2020Article
- Factors Influencing Low Prevalence of Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Among US Hispanic/Latino Children.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2019Article
- Latino parents' links to deportees are associated with developmental disorders in their children.Journal of community psychology · 2019Article
- California Autism Prevalence Trends from 1931 to 2014 and Comparison to National ASD Data from IDEA and ADDM.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2018Article
- Parental First Concerns and Timing of Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2018Article
- State-level immigration and immigrant-focused policies as drivers of Latino health disparities in the United States.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2018Article
- Factors that Influence Autism Knowledge in Hispanic Cultures: a Pilot Study.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2017Article
- Immigration policies and mental health morbidity among Latinos: A state-level analysis.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2017Article
- Environmental factors associated with autism spectrum disorder: a scoping review for the years 2003-2013.Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice · 2017Article
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Abstract
Motivated by the dramatic increase in autism diagnoses in recent years, research into risk factors has uncovered substantial variation in autism prevalence by race/ethnicity, SES, and geography. Less studied is the connection between autism diagnosis rates and the social and political context. In this article, we link the temporal pattern of autism diagnosis for Hispanic children in California to state and federal anti-immigrant policy, particularly ballot initiative Proposition 187, limiting access to public services for undocumented immigrants and their families. Using a population-level dataset of 1992-2003 California births linked to 1992-2006 autism case records, we show that the effects of state and federal policies toward immigrants are visible in the rise and fall of autism risk over time. The common epidemiological practice of estimating risk on pooled samples is thereby shown to obscure patterns and mis-estimate effect sizes. Finally, we illustrate how spatial variation in Hispanic autism rates reflects differential vulnerability to these policies. This study reveals not only the spillover effects of immigration policy on children's health, but also the hazards of treating individual attributes like ethnicity as risk factors without regard to the social and political environments that give them salience.
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