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Refugee-led organisations (RLOs) fill public health assistance gaps during COVID-19. Refugees do and can provide public health information and supplement capacity gaps. Refugees do and can deliver healthcare, shape social norms, track viruses/contacts. Mechanisms are needed to identify RLOs, offer funding, and build their capacities. The COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing socioeconomic impact on already marginalised…
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Disaster preparedness efforts and the need for disaster-prepared communities in San José have substantially increased the need for more involvement at the community level. This project is a collaboration with Japantown Prepared and Hensley Historic District to understand how to build a stronger, more cohesive community through disaster preparedness. I explored how risk perception and…
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Deemed by the federal government as “essential” to the country, immigrant field and dairy workers were told to keep working despite statewide stay-at-home directives in New York State. Undocumented workers that might choose not to comply would risk the loss of employment (with no access to unemployment benefits due to their immigration status) and eviction…
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COVID-19 management in reception centers for refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants Strategies to mitigate COVID-19 in vulnerable refugee populations Outbreak response to COVID-19 in reception centers in Spain 2020 Priorities when managing COVID-19 in refugee settings before the vaccines Shortly after the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world were urged to leave…
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Aim: To assess immigrants’ disaster preparedness and determine the related factors. Methods: Two authors independently searched PubMed, Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Citation Information by the National Institute of Informatics, Japan Medical Abstracts Society, Web of Science, PsycINFO, Cochrane Library, and Google Scholar. Studies that…
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Scholarship on disaster response and recovery has focused on local communities as crucial in developing and implementing timely, effective, and sustainable supports. Drawing from interviews with refugee leaders conducted during the spring and summer of 2020 at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, this study examines crisis response activities of refugee-led grassroots groups, specifically within…
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Though COVID-19 has had sweeping implications, many immigrant groups in the United States have been disproportionately affected. The purpose of the present study is to explore the impact of COVID-19 on immigrant communities and how local immigrant-serving organizations (ISOs) have responded during the pandemic. The authors conducted in-depth qualitative interviews with executive directors and program…
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Low-income Latinos are often at particular risk following a disaster since they lack access to financial and material resources to recover their losses and cushion the impact of the disaster. Studies of earthquakes in California suggest that poor Latinos, undocumented immigrants, and monolingual ethnic groups are among the groups that encounter the most problems in…
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As community residents and recovery workers, Latino immigrants play important roles after disasters, yet are rarely included in preparedness planning. A community-university-labor union partnership created a demonstration project after Hurricane Sandy to strengthen connections to disaster preparedness systems to increase community resilience among Latino immigrant communities in New York and New Jersey. Building ongoing ties…
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Low-income immigrant Latinos are particularly vulnerable to disasters because they are both ill-prepared and disproportionately affected. Disaster preparedness programs that are culturally appropriate must be developed and tested. To develop such a program, we conducted 12 focus groups with low-income immigrant Latinos to understand their perceptions and understanding of disaster preparedness, and facilitators and obstacles…