ArticleHealth and human rights2020
Understanding US Immigration Detention: Reaffirming Rights and Addressing Social-Structural Determinants of Health.
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31 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 62 citations in OpenAlex.
- The impact of immigration detention on mental health: an updated systematic review.BMC psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
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- Intergenerational trauma in forcibly-displaced populations in Latin America: a scoping review.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Population health and the carceral continuum: A narrative review.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2026Review
- A Qualitative Review of Office of Inspector General Complaints Submitted by Individuals Held in ICE Detention.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2025Review
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- "No data, no problem"? Potential inequities in psychosis among immigrants in the United States.SSM. Mental health · 2025Article
- Perceived Detention Environment and Mental Health of Detainees in Immigration Detention Centers in Spain.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- Duration in Immigration Detention and Health Harms.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- The health-related experiences of detained immigrants with and without mental illness.Journal of migration and health · 2025Article
- Transgender in Detention: Victimization Experiences in Immigration Facilities.Transgender health · 2024Article
- Likelihood of COVID-19 Outbreaks in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Detention Centers, 2020‒2021.American journal of public health · 2024Article
- Neurological Care of Refugees and Other Forcibly Displaced Persons.Seminars in neurology · 2024Article
- "They Don't Care If We Live or Die": A Qualitative Analysis Examining the US Immigration System's Treatment of Undocumented Communities during the COVID-19 Pandemic.Ethnicity & disease · 2024Article
- Medical Mismanagement in Southern US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Detention Facilities: A Thematic Analysis of Secondary Medical Records.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2023Article
- Advancing Research To Address The Health Impacts Of Structural Racism In US Immigration Prisons.Health affairs (Project Hope) · 2023Article
- Exploring the Association Between Detention Conditions, Detention-Related Abuse, and Mental Health Among Deported Mexican Migrants.Journal of health care for the poor and underserved · 2023Article
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5 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
A crisis of mass immigration detention exists in the United States, which is home to the world's largest immigration detention system. The immigration detention system is legally classified as civil, rather than criminal, and therefore non-punitive. Yet it mimics the criminal incarceration system and holds detained individuals in punitive, prison-like conditions. Within immigration detention centers, there are increasing reports and recognition of civil and human rights abuses, including preventable in-custody deaths. In this paper, we propose understanding the health impacts of detention as an accumulation of mental and physical trauma that take place during the entirety of a detained immigrant's experience, from migration to potential deportation and removal. Further, we explore the social-structural determinants of health as they relate to immigration detention, contextualize these determinants within a human rights framework, and draw parallels to the larger context of US mass incarceration. Realizing the right to health requires addressing these social-structural determinants of health. For the care of immigrant patients to be effective, clinicians and public health professionals must incorporate an awareness of the health risks of the immigration detention system into trauma- and human rights-informed models of care during and after detention.
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