Context matters: Placing the sociopolitical context into research on enclave-health effects and immigration enforcement

Ezinne Nwankwo and May Sudhinaraset

Social Science & Medicine, 2025, vol. 366, issue C

Abstract: County governments across the U.S. adopt varied immigrant-related policies that facilitate or hinder immigrant inclusion. County-level social, economic, and geographic characteristics also differ by location—resulting in diverging immigrant inclusion goals and local contexts that disparately impact the lives and health of immigrants and their families. Although ethnic enclaves—communities where a large share of coethnic and immigrant residents live—are embedded within broader county governments, research on enclave-health effects have seldom considered the sociopolitical contexts, especially the immigration enforcement policies, in the settings where enclaves exist.

Keywords: Immigration; Immigration enforcement; Immigrant health; Counties; Ethnic enclaves; Sociopolitical context (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117653

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