ArticleJournal of immigrant and minority health2017
Threat of Deportation as Proximal Social Determinant of Mental Health Amongst Migrant Workers.
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- Migrant women caregivers' experiences in end-of-life formal care.Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S P · 2023Article
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- Infection, temporality and inequality: Sanitizing foreign bodies and protecting public health in Taiwan.Asian and Pacific migration journal : APMJ · 2022Article
- Negotiating Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Performing Migrant Domestic Work in Contentious Conditions.The American behavioral scientist · 2021Article
- Low-wage migrant workers during coronavirus disease 2019: a social determinants analysis.Journal of public health policy · 2021Article
- Social Determinant of Mental Health in Immigrants and Refugees: A Systematic Review.Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran · 2021Article
- No Te Tratan Bien Porque Eres Mexicana: Intersectional Systemic Violence and Precarity in Latina Adolescent Life in the U.S. South.Peace and conflict : journal of peace psychology : the journal of the Division of Peace Psychology of the American Psychological Association · 2020Article
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- Breaking down the barriers: Understanding migrant workers' access to healthcare in Malaysia.PloS one · 2019Article
- Social Determinants of Mental Health: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go.Current psychiatry reports · 2018Review
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Abstract
While migration health studies traditionally focused on socioeconomic determinants of health, an emerging body of literature is exploring migration status as a proximate cause of health outcomes. Study 1 is a path analysis of the predictors of mental health amongst 582 documented migrant workers in Singapore, and shows that threat of deportation is one of the most important proximate social determinants of predicted mental illness, and a mediator of the impact of workplace conflict on mental health. Study 2 is a qualitative study of the narratives of 149 migrant workers who were in workplace conflict with their employers, and demonstrates that workers believed threats were used as a negotiating strategy during workplace conflicts. Findings suggest that migration status places workers who come into workplace conflict with their employers at heightened risk of mental illness because migration status can be used as a tool by employers in workplace negotiations.
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