Toward Critically Analyzing Whiteness in Immigrant Health.
Health Educ Behav
; 50(4): 493-499, 2023 08.
Article
en En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-37525981
ABSTRACT
Assimilation theories dominate immigration scholarship to examine differential life chances, opportunities, and health of immigrants across three waves of immigrants in the United States. Assimilation theories are widely used in public health to explain the health status of immigrants despite the embedded White supremacist ideology while ignoring the role of whiteness. This article reviews and critiques assimilation theories to propose a critical analysis of whiteness in immigrant health scholarship. Critically analyzing whiteness in immigrant health studies allows us to recognize (a) the problematic framing of assimilation theories because of the theories' devotion to a White-European vision of upward mobility and a mainstream characterized as elite and White and (b) how a purportedly colorblind immigration law reinforces White supremacy through possessive investment in whiteness. To highlight whiteness in immigrant health, we examine the anti-immigration rhetoric and anti-immigrant policies and surveillance while providing implications for future research in the scholarship of immigrant health.
Palabras clave
Texto completo:
1
Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Emigrantes e Inmigrantes
Aspecto:
Equity_inequality
/
Patient_preference
Límite:
Humans
País/Región como asunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Health Educ Behav
Asunto de la revista:
CIENCIAS DO COMPORTAMENTO
/
EDUCACAO
/
SAUDE PUBLICA
Año:
2023
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos