UNAM Boston in collaboration with the University of Seville, the Unam School of Medicine and UMass Boston held a discussion on "Migration and Health in the Americas". Moderated by Dr. Javier Laguna, director of Unam-Boston and with the participation of Dr. Martha Rodriguez, Dr. Luis Duran and Dr. Eduardo Siquiera.
Like most people who need to leave their country to seek new opportunities, Mexican immigrants go to the United States full of dreams and with the hope of improving their living conditions and well-being. However, during their stay in this country, they face extraordinary challenges that put their health and safety at risk, mainly related to their immigration status and social integration.
This discussion addresses the issue of the importance and relationship that migration has with health, the impact of being a health risk and is a matter of disease, the topic is very broad, this time the emphasis was on the impacts of deportation policies that are experienced in the Latino population in the United States, the impacts of the pandemic on the health and welfare of migrants, the homogeneity of migration.
Migration and health two categories that influence each other, it works many times as a stressor in the individual sense and family sense, the impact where there is a historical relationship in terms of deportation and deportability, there are about 17 million people who have at least one unauthorized member in their household and 1 in 3 people live with at least one US citizen child, with an increasing presence of adolescent children.
Expanding access to and quality of health care for immigrants living in the United States also represents an opportunity for the immigrants' countries of origin, including Mexico, as immigrants make important economic and social contributions to both countries.
Aspiring to good health is a right of all human beings and providing the means to make this right a reality is certainly a binational responsibility according to our expert participants.
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