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Released: 12-Jan-2023 6:30 PM EST
New UC Davis documentary set to air on PBS
UC Davis Health (Defunct)

A new documentary from the UC Davis Environmental Health Sciences Center, “Dignidad,” premieres on PBS stations across the United States beginning Jan. 14.

   
Released: 5-Dec-2022 4:05 PM EST
We ain't misbehavin' here. The latest news in Behavioral Science on Newswise
Newswise

Here are some of the latest articles that have been added to the Behavioral Science channel on Newswise, a free source for journalists.

       
27-Oct-2022 10:25 AM EDT
Study Finds Persistent Disparities in Access to Prenatal Care Among Pregnant People Based on Citizenship Status and Education Level
Mount Sinai Health System

Findings suggest exclusions to Medicaid because of immigration status may increase risk for maternal health care disparities in some immigrant populations

Released: 20-Oct-2022 9:00 AM EDT
Prenatal care for foreign-born Latinx people dropped during 2016 presidential campaign
Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott

Rates of prenatal care among foreign-born Latinx pregnant people decreased below expected levels during the 2016 presidential campaign – likely reflecting the effects of harmful anti-immigrant rhetoric, reports a study in the November issue of Medical Care. The journal is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer.

   
Released: 18-Oct-2022 10:45 AM EDT
Vilcek Foundation Awards $600,000 in Prizes to Immigrant Scientists and Musicians
Vilcek Foundation

The Vilcek Foundation announces the recipients of the 2023 Vilcek Foundation Prizes. Awarded annually in the arts and sciences, the prizes recognize and celebrate immigrant contributions to the arts, culture, and society, and build awareness of how important immigration is for intellectual and cultural life in the United States.

   
Newswise: Tip Sheet: Johns Hopkins Experts Present on Immigrant Mental Health, Reproductive Health Care and More at National Pediatrics Meeting
Released: 8-Oct-2022 8:00 AM EDT
Tip Sheet: Johns Hopkins Experts Present on Immigrant Mental Health, Reproductive Health Care and More at National Pediatrics Meeting
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Johns Hopkins Children’s Center researchers will present on several different topics at the AAP Experience National Conference & Exhibition.

Released: 6-Oct-2022 11:40 AM EDT
Question 4: Should Massachusetts offer Driver’s Licenses to Unauthorized Immigrants?
Tufts University

A report released today by the Center for State Policy Analysis (cSPA) at Tufts University's Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life examines the potential effects of Massachusetts ballot question 4, which would allow unauthorized immigrants to obtain state-issued driver’s licenses.

Newswise: More Stress, Fewer Coping Resources for Latina Mothers Post-Trump
Released: 13-Sep-2022 6:05 AM EDT
More Stress, Fewer Coping Resources for Latina Mothers Post-Trump
University of California San Diego

The sociopolitical climate in the United States has taken its toll on the mental health of Latina mothers, according to new research from the University of California San Diego. Findings show increased depression, anxiety and perceived stress in a border city and reduced coping resources in both a border and interior US city.

   
Released: 22-Jul-2022 3:25 PM EDT
Evidence that asylum seekers are facing human rights violations in Croatia is now incontestable, says new study
University of Nottingham

Every week, hundreds of asylum seekers are facing extreme forms of police brutality, as well as being forcibly expelled from the EU without having their asylum claims processed by Croatian authorities, new independent research has found.

Newswise: UCI study examines broad impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on food insecurity among rural, Latino immigrants in California
Released: 21-Jul-2022 4:20 PM EDT
UCI study examines broad impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on food insecurity among rural, Latino immigrants in California
University of California, Irvine

A recent study led by Denise Diaz Payán, PhD, MPP, corresponding author and assistant professor of health, society, and behavior at the UCI Program in Public Health, examined how household food environments of rural Latino immigrants were impacted during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how access to nutritional food is complicated by barriers to government assistance programs. Findings are published online in the journal Nutrients.

   
Released: 20-Jul-2022 4:05 PM EDT
Racial discrimination affects brain microstructure
Elsevier

Anomalies could underlie higher risk for health conditions in Black Americans.

     
Released: 11-Jul-2022 10:30 AM EDT
What’s changed in Cuba in the year since the protests?
University of Miami

University of Miami experts versed about the Caribbean nation address what has transpired since the July 11, 2021, anti-government protests.

Released: 22-Jun-2022 5:05 PM EDT
ASA Annual Meeting, Aug. 5-9, Los Angeles; Press Registration Open
American Sociological Association (ASA)

Sociologists to Explore Topics of Gun Violence, Policing, Housing Insecurity, Abortion Rights, and More at ASA Annual Meeting, Aug. 5-9, Los Angeles; Press Registration Open

Newswise: Exhibitions at UIC Gallery 400 explore immigration, dispossession
Released: 15-Jun-2022 11:40 AM EDT
Exhibitions at UIC Gallery 400 explore immigration, dispossession
University of Illinois Chicago

Multiple events will be held during the run of the exhibitions through Aug. 6

Newswise: New research finds that preference for remaining is key to successful immigration
Released: 11-May-2022 3:10 PM EDT
New research finds that preference for remaining is key to successful immigration
Bocconi University

New research finds that policies granting permanent residency to immigrants conditional on acquiring host country skills - like language - are most likely to generate higher fiscal contributions to the host country through income taxes.

Released: 2-May-2022 4:15 PM EDT
Sociologist Explores, for First Time, the Dynamics of Immigration Enforcement that Impact Children’s Lives
University at Albany, State University of New York

The research used in-depth interviews collected between 2019 and 2021 with 84 young adults who were minors in the mid-2000s to draw conclusions and then policy implications.

Released: 29-Apr-2022 3:45 PM EDT
Skeptics of welfare schemes don’t increase with more immigrants
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

Some studies suggest that support for the welfare state decreases as immigration diversifies the population. However, recent research from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) shows that the story is probably not that simple.

Newswise: Experts: Migration policy has reached a crossroads
18-Apr-2022 4:20 PM EDT
Experts: Migration policy has reached a crossroads
DePaul University

In the midst of more than 4 million Ukrainians leaving their home country due to the invasion by Russia, immigration and migration policy has reached a critical crossroads, says a pair of scholars who will speak at DePaul University’s Migration Collaborative Immigration Summit April 29.

Newswise: Who you know can make or break employment opportunities for African migrants
Released: 30-Mar-2022 9:05 PM EDT
Who you know can make or break employment opportunities for African migrants
University of South Australia

Racial hierarchies and a lack of the ‘right sort’ of social connections are hindering African-born migrants from securing meaningful employment in South Australia, according to new research by the University of South Australia.

Released: 24-Mar-2022 10:45 AM EDT
Pandemic upended state's population trends in 2021: Indiana Business Research Center
Indiana University

Indiana added 20,341 residents in 2021 to reach a total population of nearly 6.81 million, according to the latest population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. Analysis by the Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business indicates this is Indiana's smallest annual increase since 2015 and is well below the state's average annual gain of nearly 30,200 residents over the previous decade.

   
Newswise: Novel study linking undocumented immigrants with primary care services significantly reduces emergency department use
Released: 14-Mar-2022 3:25 PM EDT
Novel study linking undocumented immigrants with primary care services significantly reduces emergency department use
University of Notre Dame

Notre Dame Assistant Professor Adrienne Sabety and a colleague from MIT partnered with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to determine how access to primary care would affect both undocumented immigrants’ health and the use of emergency departments for routine care.

Newswise:Video Embedded gender-based-violence-among-refugee-women-increased-during-covid
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Released: 10-Mar-2022 12:05 PM EST
Gender-based violence among refugee women increased during COVID
Washington University in St. Louis

The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated risks of violence for refugee and migrant girls and women, finds a new report from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis and UNICEF.

Released: 10-Mar-2022 11:30 AM EST
Immigrants have greater financial worries, but lower rates of psychological distress
Wolters Kluwer Health: Lippincott

Compared to US-born individuals, immigrants to the United States have increased financial worries – especially related to things like retirement and medical costs, reports a study in the March issue of the Journal of Psychiatric Practice. The journal is published in the Lippincott portfolio by Wolters Kluwer.

Released: 3-Mar-2022 11:50 AM EST
Vilcek Foundation to award $150,000 to early-career immigrant scientists in 2023
Vilcek Foundation

In 2023, the Vilcek Foundation will award three Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science of $50,000 each.

   
Newswise: Criminologist discusses intersection of criminal justice and immigration
Released: 1-Mar-2022 3:30 PM EST
Criminologist discusses intersection of criminal justice and immigration
DePaul University

Immigration has been a politically charged topic for decades in the U.S. What’s missing from the discussion is consideration of criminal justice practice and policy, says Xavier Perez, a criminology faculty member in DePaul University’s College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences.

Released: 16-Feb-2022 1:15 PM EST
Community leaders and Mayo Clinic researchers develop playbook for COVID-19 health equity, future pandemics
Mayo Clinic

Public health experts report that members of immigrant and refugee communities continue to be disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. A team of Mayo Clinic medical experts and community leaders collaborated to find ways to reduce health disparities related to COVID-19.

Released: 7-Feb-2022 11:55 AM EST
Refugees in U.S. struggle to find long-term work
Cornell University

Refugees are less likely to be employed the longer they live in the United States, despite unique and early access to employment services, according to new Cornell University research.

   
Newswise: UCI-led study finds disparities in undiagnosed hypertension among Chinese and Korean American Immigrants
Released: 4-Feb-2022 4:05 PM EST
UCI-led study finds disparities in undiagnosed hypertension among Chinese and Korean American Immigrants
University of California, Irvine

Chinese and Korean American immigrants who lack health insurance are at an increased risk of having hypertension, but not knowing it, according to a UCI-led study recently published in the Journal of Community Health. The study, led by corresponding author and assistant professor of health, society and behavior with the UCI Program in Public Health Brittany N.

Newswise: January temperatures linked to immigrant entrepreneurship
Released: 6-Jan-2022 7:05 AM EST
January temperatures linked to immigrant entrepreneurship
Iowa State University

Researchers at Iowa State University found the ratio of immigrants who are self-employed vs. paid-employed is much higher in parts of the country with warmer January temperatures (i.e., the South) and lower in colder areas (i.e., the Midwest).

   
Released: 19-Nov-2021 3:20 PM EST
English Learners Face Severe Inequities and Substandard Conditions in NJ Schools
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

English learners (ELs) in New Jersey public schools, already facing inadequate supports and a lack of attention, missed out on critical services during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report released today by the NJ Consortium for Immigrant Children (NJCIC), NJ Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages/NJ Bilingual Educators (NJTESOL/NBE), and Education Law Center (ELC).



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