Undocu-Bibliography [Sept 2013-- ]


1	Title	Lead Author	Year	Population	Health Concern	Health Outcome	What They Found	Link	Notes

2	Undocumented status: implications for child development, policy, and ethical research.	Suarez-Orozco	2013	Children with undocumented parents	Growing up in the shadows	Health, cognitive, socioemotional, and educational development	Reflection upon the ethical policy implications of this growing demographic group and consider research strategies in conducting ethical research with this population.	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24038807
3	Identifying health insurance predictors and the main reported reasons for being uninsured among US immigrants by legal authorization status.	Vargas Bustamante	2013	Foreign born adults from the 2009 CA Health Interview Study	Length of stay in the US, immigration status	Health insurance coverage	Immigration status is the main reported reason for lacking health insurance	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24038524
4	Day laborers' life satisfaction: the role of familismo, spirituality, work, health, and discrimination.	Ojeda	2013	143 predominantly undocumented Latino male day laborers	Discrimination, buffering forces of familismo, spirituality	Mental health, perceived health, work satisfaction	Among these variable, spirituality and perceived health were identified as protective factors against the role of perceived discrimination on life satisfaction	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23875852
5	Fear of discovery among Latino immigrants presenting to the emergency department.	Maldonado	2013	Undocumented Latino immigrants in Emergency Rooms in two CA counties	Sources of Fear	Discovery of undocumented status	One in eight of UDLI presenting to the ED express fear of discovery and consequent deportation. Belief that medical staff report UDLI and recent immigration are risk factors for this fear. Family, friends, and media are the primary sources of these concerns.	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23406074
6	Sexual health of Latino migrant day labourers under conditions of structural vulnerability	Organista	2013	Latino migrant day labourers in the SF Bay Area	Structural vulnerability	Sexual health	The sexual health aspirations of the men are deeply embedded in the core value and practice of Latino familismo or, in this case, the central goal of securing a family headed by men as providers and present husbands/fathers. However, such goals are frequently thwarted by the poverty engendering work and prolonged separations from home that characterise predominantly undocumented day labour in the USA.	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23140484
7	Battling discrimination and social isolation: psychological distress among Latino day laborers.	Negi	2013	Latino day laborers	discrimination and social isolation	Psychological distress	both quantitative and qualitative member checking focus group results indicated that discrimination and social isolation have an adverse and signiﬁcant impact on LDLs’ mental health	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22864958
8	Relationship between documentation status and survival for medically underserved Hispanic breast cancer patients.	Castro-Echeverry	2013	Seven hundred fifty-one breast cancer patients were identified	Documented status	Several breast cancer outcomes	Undocumented patients presented at an earlier age and were likely to present with advanced stage. After adjusting for covariates, undocumented status was not associated with increased mortality. The diagnosis-to-treatment interval was significantly longer in undocumented patients.	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22632937
9	Access to health care for undocumented migrant children and pregnant women: the paradox between values and attitudes of health care professionals.	Ruiz-Casares	2013	Clinicians, administrators, and support staff	Analysis examined the role of personal and institutional correlates of these attitudes	Attitudes to health care for undocumented immigrants	Foreign-born respondents and those in primary care centers were more likely to assess the present access to care as a serious problem, and to endorse broad or full access to services, primarily based on human rights reasons	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22399247
10	Obstacles to getting ahead: how assimilation mechanisms impact undocumented mexican immigrant families.	Bacalao	2013	10 undocumented Mexican families (12 adolescents and 14 of their parents) who had immigrated within the past 7 years	Discrimination, host culture norms, appearance, and behaviors	Assimilation	Results indicated that assimilation was prompted by two powerful mechanisms: monolingualism and discrimination.	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23369018
11	Sociocultural and Structural Barriers to Care Among Undocumented Latino Immigrants with HIV Infection	Dang	2012	HIV-positive undocumented immigrants	Being HIV positive and undocumented	Circumstantial, situational and social factors that uniquely affect entry and retention in care for this population		http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22012476
12	Provider's perspectives on the impact of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity on immigrant health.	Hacker	2012	Primary care and emergency medicine providers	ICE actitivies such as raids, detention, and deportation	Emotional health, ability to comply with health care recommendations, and access	Health care providers are witnessing the negative effects of ICE activities on their immigrant patients' psychological and physical health	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22643614
13	Birth outcomes among low-income women - Documented and Undocumented	Dang	2011	Prenatal patients receiving CHIP and Medicaid at a community health center in Texas	Enrollment in CHIP or Medicaid (used a rought proxies for documentation status)	Pre-term birth, Low birth weight	Emergent themes related to health care barriers include (1) the challenges of dealing with HIV stigma and rejection from family and community; and (2) the experienced and perceived struc- tural barriers of accessing care as an undocumented indi- vidual	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21841923
14	The Linkage of Life course, Migration, Health and Aging: Health in Adults and Elderly Mexican Migrants	deOca	2011	Mexican migrants living in US and Mexico	Migration experience (both personal and historical)	life course conditions, aging, migration, and health outcomes	According to this theoretical perspective and the data, historical time, age at migration, and the conditions under which the migration trajectory developed, show different impacts on the health and quality of life of the elderly, as revealed through analysis of labor experience, disease and accidents, medical service, health treatment, transnational networks, and family formation.	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21878577
15	The impact of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on immigrant health: perceptions of immigrants in Everett, Massachusetts, USA	Hacker	2011	Immigrants in Everrett, MA	Impact of increased Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity in the community	Mental health, health care access, and other perceptions regarding well-being	Themes across the focus groups included: 1) Fear of deportation, 2) Fear of collaboration between local law enforcement and ICE and perception of arbitrariness on the part of the former and 3) Concerns about not being able to furnish documentation required to apply for insurance and for health care	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21778008
16	Prenatal care among immigrant and racial-ethnic minority women in a new immigrant destination: exploring the impact of immigrant legal status	Korinek	2011	Birth outcomes of pregnant women in Utah	Immigration Status	Prenatal Care	important factors inﬂuencing prenatal care utilization. Undocumented women are among the least likely to obtain adequate levels of prenatal care. However, undocumented women’s prenatal care utilization is enhanced among those using the state’s integrative driver privilege program, and among those residing in neighborhoods with high concentrations of immigrants.	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21530038
17	The impact of new health insurance coverage on undocumented and other low-income children: lessons from three California counties	Howell	2011	Children from Santa Clara, San Mateo, and LA counties	Health insurance	Access to health care, various child heath counties	In the populations of low-income children studied in these three California counties, it is clear that providing the children with health insurance greatly improved their access to medical and dental care which, in turn, led to improvements in use of critical health services and reductions in unmet need for services.	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20453380
18	Variations in Healthcare Access and Utilization Among Mexican Immigrants: The Role of Documentation Status	Vargas Bustamante	2011	Mexican immigrants in California Health Interview Survey, 2007 immigrants)	Immigration legal status	Usual source of care; regular physician visits	This study shows that undocumented immigrants from Mexico are much less likely to have a physician visit in the previous year and a usual source of care compared to documented immigrants from Mexico.	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16292496
19	Acculturative stress among documented and undocumented Latino immigrants in the United States.	Arbona	2010	Documented and undocumented Mexican and Central American immigrants living in two major cities in Texas.	Immigration status; "Immigration challenges" (separation from family, language proficiency, traditionality); and of fear of deportation	Extrafamilial and intrafamilial acculturative stress	Undocumented immigrants reported higher levels of immigration challenges. Both immigrant groups experienced the same levels of fear of deportation. Immigration challenges and immigration status were each associated with extrafamilial acculturative stress, but not with intrafamilial acculturative stress. Fear of deportation was associated with both extrafamililal and intrafamilial acculturative stress.	http://www.ncfh.org/pdfs/2k9/8827.pdf
20	Violence Committed Against Migrants in Transit: Experiences on the Northern Mexican Border	Infante	2010	Migrants staying in shelters in Northern Mexico	Crossing the US-MX border on foot	Physical, sexual and verbal abuse, arbitrary detention	Migrants experienced threats, verbal abuse, and arbitrary detention based on ethnicity, as well as assaults, beatings and sexual violence.	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21655940
21	The Jornalero: Perceptions of Health Care Resources of Immigrant Day Laborers	Leclere	2010	Day laborers in the San Fernando Valley, California	Day Laborer as occupation	Access to health care resources	There were few health care resources, aside from ER's and clinics for homeless, for day laborers.	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21866352
22	Accessing Primary Care: HIV+ Caribbean Immigrants in the Bronx	Pivnick	2010	HIV positive immigrants in the Bronx, New York	Peer services	Utilization of HIV Primary Care	Alienation from family, women's vulnerability to family violence, and difficulties with disclosure, employment, and health care were compounded by undocumented immigration status. Retention was encouraged by the community based site, high levels of peer interaction, and supportive services.	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19784773
23	Depression and Anxiety Among First-Generation Immigrant Latino Youth Key Correlates and Implications for Future Research	Potochnick	2010	Latino youth in North Carolina	Migration stressors and factors	Mental Health Outcomes, Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms	Compared with documented adolescents, undocumented adolescents were at greater risk of anxiety, and children in mixed-status families were at greater risk of anxiety and marginally greater risk of depressive symptoms.	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20611049
24	Experiences of Immigrant Women Who Self-Petition Under the Violence Against Women Act	Ingram	2010	Two counties adjacent to the border in AZ	Women who self-petitioned under the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)	Experiences with the VAWA	There are several challeges women who self-petition face when self-petitioning for the VAWA. Many of the women found out by chance, and many others had to face obstacles such as discrimination to receive the protection.	http://www.ncfh.org/pdfs/2k9/8720.pdf
25	United States–Mexico Border Crossing: Experiences and Risk Perceptions of Undocumented Male Immigrants	DeLuca	2010	undocumented border crossers from Mexico	Risks associated with crossing the US-Mexico border	Perceptions of crossers and efforts taken to minimize risks	This preliminary study found that individuals crossing the US–Mexico border appear willing to put themselves and their families at substantial perceived risk in order to seek economic opportunity.	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18850270
26	The health of California's immigrant hired farmworkers.	Villarejo	2010	The California Agricultural Workers Health Survey	hired farm worker	Chronic health conditions; occupational injuries; behavioral health risks	Some measures of health are broken down by immigration status: medical visits and health insurance	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20191600
27	Household density among undocumented Mexican immigrants in New York City	Standish	2010	Undocumented Mexican Immigrants in New York City	Crowding in the home (def'n 2 people per room)	Health insurance, self-rated health, food security	Living with children, food insecurity and experiences of language discrimination were associated with crowded housing	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18709456
28	Health Insurance and Access to Care for Families with Young Children in California, 2001-2005: Differences by Immigration Status	Stevens	2010	Children and families in California Health Interview Survey, 2001, 2003, and 2005	Immigration legal status (four categories, citizen, documented, mixed, and undocumented)	Health insurance, physician visits, dental visits, regular source of care	After controlling for other factors, only undocumented children had poorer insurance coverage and access to care than citizen children.	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18780183
29	Documentation status and parental concerns about development in young US children of Mexican origin	Ortega	2009	Mexican-Americans and Whites in California	Immigration legal status, Ethnicity	Parents' evaluation of child's developmental risks	Mexican children with undocumented parents have greater parent-reported developmental risk than Mexican and White children whose parents are US citizens or legal permanent residents.	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19394914
30	The Impact of Detention and Deportation on Latino Immigrant Children and Families: A Quantitative Exploration	Brabeck	2010	Latinos recruited from community-based service organizations in Massachusetts	Deportation or detention; and level of parents' "legal vulnerability" ((undocumented, has a current deportation order, had been detained by immigration authorities in the past, was previously deported, has a family member currently in detention, has a family member who had been deported, is a U.S. citizen, and legal U.S. resident).	Parent emotional well-being, ability to provide financially, and relationships with their children, child’s emotional well-being and academic performance.	Parents with higher levels of legal vulnerability reported a greater impact of detention or deportation on the family environment and child well-being.	http://digitalcommons.ric.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1255&context=facultypublications
31	Perceived quality of care, receipt of preventive care and usual source of health care among undocumented and other Latinos	Rodríguez	2009	The Pew Hispanic Center/ Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Hispanic Healthcare survey of a nationally representative telephone interview survey of 4,013 randomly selected Latino adult participants, aged ≥18 years.	Immigration legal status	Blood pressure checked in the past 2 years, cholesterol checked in the past 5 years, perceived quality of medical care in the past year, perceived receipt of no health/health-care information from a doctor in the past year, and language concordance.	Undocumented status was associated with lower likelihood of blood pressure checked in the previous 2 years, cholesterol checked in the past 5 years, and perceived receipt of excellent/good care in the past year .	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2764043/
32	Hunger and health among undocumented Mexican migrants in a US urban area	Hadley	2008	Undocumented immigrants in New York City	Hunger, occupation, time spent in US, gender, income, social support, public benefits	Poor health, mental and physical health	Hunger was associated with being a day laborer and not having public assistance. Hunger and time spent in the US were associated with the poor mental and physical health.	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17610762
33	Access to and use of health services among undocumented Mexican immigrants in a US urban area.	Nandi	2008	Undocumented Mexican Immigrants in New York City	Immigration status	Access to health care	Living in a residence with fewer other adults, linguistic acculturation, higher levels of formal income, higher levels of social support, and poor health were associated with health insurance coverage. Female gender, fewer children, arrival before 1997, higher levels of formal income, health insurance coverage, greater social support, and not reporting discrimination were associated with access to a regular health care provider.	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2636432/
34	Fractured migrant families: paradoxes of hope and devastation.	McGuire	2007	Migrant Oaxacan women	Immigration policy/Increased feminization	Women's lived experience, hope and devastation	This article describes women's experiences by sharing their voices, and challenges practitioners/researchers to shape new clinical responses, international connections, and solidarity in efforts humanize immigration policy, and to transform the dynamics of economic globalization that contribute to these conditions.	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17563480
35	Beyond acculturation: Immigration, discrimination, and health research among Mexicans in the United States	Viruell-Fuentes	2007	first and second generation Mexican women in Michigan	generation in US	health	Not an epi study - interviews examined the process of first and second generations to understand processes by which second generation has worse health. "The women’s narratives highlighted a key process linked to their integration into US society, in which the second generation experienced a more pervasive and cumulative exposure to ‘‘othering’’ than the ﬁrst generation. The ﬁndings point to ‘‘othering’’ and discrimination as potential pathways through which the health of immigrants and their descendants erodes. "	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17602812
36	Legal status, emotional well-being and subjective health status of Latino immigrants	Cavasos	2007	Self-identified Latino Immigrants in a Midwestern City (probably St. Louis)	Concern about deportation (Responded affirmatively to the item, "I have thought that if I went to a social or government agency I would be deported.")	Emotional distress, immigrant stress, perceived health status	Results indicate that Latino immigrants with concerns about deportation are at heightened risk of experiencing negative emotional and health states (particularly anger), Hispanic immigrant stress associated with extrafamilial factors and substandard health status.	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17987916
37	Health care access, use of services, and experiences among undocumented Mexicans and other Latinos.	Ortega	2007	Undocumented Latin American immigrants and Latinos in California	Immigration legal status	Health care access and experience	Undocumented Mexicans and other undocumented Latinos reported less use of health care services and poorer experiences with care compared with their US-born counterparts,	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18039995
38	The subjective experience of trauma and subsequent PTSD in a sample of undocumented immigrants.	Rasmussen	2007	Undocumented immigrants on their way to asylum hearings or deportation	History of trauma (personal, poltical, interpersonal, etc.)	PTSD	Interpersonal violence in general was associated with higher rates of PTSD. We identiﬁed a dose-response effect for PTSD, but this was not depen- dent on other events.	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17299301
39	Serving Asians and Pacific Islanders with HIV/AIDS: Challenges and Lessons Learned	Chin	2006	HIV positive documented and undocumented immigrants in the Bronx.	Primary language (Asian languages, English) and immigration status (undocumented or documented/citizen)	Receipt of primary care services and barriers to primary care services	At baseline non-English speaking and undocumented immigrants had a significantly lower rate of receipt of primary care services and experienced significantly more barriers to service. At follow-up of program, however, differences by primary language and immigration status disappeared.	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17242538
40	Why are Latinos the most uninsured racial/ethnic group of US children? A community-based study of risk factors for and consequences of being an uninsured Latino child.	Flores	2006	Latino parents in the greater Boston region	Ethnicity, legal status, parent employment and income	Child's health insurance coverage and access to primary care	After adjustment, parental undocumented and documented status, having 2 parents work, low family income, and older child age are associated with being an uninsured child, but Latino ethnicity is not.	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16950964
41	Unauthorized border crossings and migrant deaths: Arizona, New Mexico, and El Paso, Texas, 2002-2003	Sapkota	2006	Deceased undocumented border crossers	Border crossing	Cause of death	Leading causes of death were heat exposure, vehicle crashes and drowning
42	Deportation of Tuberculosis Patients Complicated by a Medication Shortage --- Honduras, May--August 2006	Rodriquez	2006	Immigrants Deported to Honduras	Deportation, lack of access to medicine	Tuberculous	Approximately 84% of detainees identified with TB while in ICE custody are deported to their countries of origin before their treatment has been completed (1,2). These patients are only allowed to travel after they have been deter- mined to be noninfectious in accordance with CDC guide- lines (3). Patients with active TB who are deported before treatment completion are at high risk for interrupting or not completing treatment (which typically lasts at least 6 months), developing drug-resistant TB, and transmitting TB disease to others; in addition, these patients often illegally reenter the United States after deportation (1).	http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5626a3.htm
43	Overcoming the Odds: Access to Care for Immigrant Children in Working Poor Families in California	Guendelman	2005	3,978 nonimmigrant and 462 immigrant children and adolescents under the age of 18	health insurance status (insured or uninsured)	postponing ER visits, dental care, perceived discrimination	Among the uninsured, immigrants had higher odds of perceiving discrimination (11% vs. 5%, p < 0.05) and postponing emergency room (ER) (16% vs. 7%, p < 0.05) and dental care (40% vs. 30%, p < 0.05) after controlling for covariates. Among the insured, immigrants fared worse on almost every access and utilization outcome. Among insured immigrants, child and parent undocumented status and having a non-English-speaking parent contributed to missed physician and ER visits.	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16292496
44	Residency in the United States, Subjective Well-Being, and Depression in an Older Mexican-Origin Sample	Cuellar	2004	Hispanics aged 45 and older in Texas	Immigrant vs. non-immigrant; Stress, acculturation, age, and gender	Depression, health status, life satisfaction, or self-esteem.	The non-immigrant group was not significantly different from the immigrant group on measures of depression, health status, life satisfaction, or self-esteem. The immigrant group was found to report significantly more stress than the non-immigrant group. Income, age, gender, and acculturation were significant predictors of well-being, whereas immigration status and years of residency were not.	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15271265
45	Masculinity and Undocumented Labor Migration: Injured Latino Day Laborers in San Francisco.	Walter	2004	Undocumented day laborers in SF	"structural violence" - vulnerability due to undoc status; impact of masculine identity; etc.	“socially structured patriarchal suffering”	"A clinical ethnographic focus on socially structured patriarchal suffering elucidates the causal relationship between macro-forces and individual action with a fuller appreciation of the impact of culture and everyday lived experience."	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15210088
46	Undocumentedness and liminality as health variables.	McGuire	2003	Migrant Oaxacan women	Immigration policy/Increased feminization	Women's lived experience, hope and devastation	Recommendations for nurses on how to work with undocumented women to consider the constellation of factors that impact their lives.	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12945654
47	The Ties that Heal: Guatemalan Immigrant Women’s Networks and Medical Treatment.	Menjívar	2002	Recently arrived Guatamalan immigrant woman in Los Angeles	Migrant women's social networks	Access to prescription and "traditional" medications	Migrants women’s informal networks become key in putting within reach a variety of treatments that include prescription drugs (obtained over the counter) and “traditional” medicines,	http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1747-7379.2002.tb00088.x/abstract
48	The effect of fear on access to care among undocumented Latino immigrants	Berk	2001	Undocumented immigrants in Los Angeles, Fresno, Houston, El Paso in the years following 1994 and 1996 anti-immigration policies.	Undocumented status	Fear of not receiving health care	39% of the sample reported that fear of not receiving medical services because of their status Those who expressed fear of not being able to get health care were more likely to have reported not having been able to get the care they need.	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16228780
49	The Effect of Passing an ‘‘Anti-immigrant’’ Ballot Proposition on the Use of Prenatal Care by Foreign-Born Mothers in California	Spetz	2000	Foreign mothers giving birth in CA 1993-1995	Foreign born mothers who have been	Birth outcomes, prenatal care	Slight decrease in access to prenatal care for foreign born women possibly related to the passage of Prop 187. Esp. women with less education.	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16228741