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Policies and practices that push the most at-risk children, out of classrooms and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems
Children otherwise eligible for RIte Care are eligible for healthcare regardless of immigration status
Cover All Kids (2022)
Number of Refugees that come to RI each year
100 and 345 per year
Theory suggests that each life stage influences the next. The social, economic and physical environments in which we live have influence health
Life course theory
The conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks.
Social determinants of Health
Program that allows Rhode Island residents who do not have legal immigration statusto obtain a driver’s license
Driver’s Licenses for All
What percent of the Rhode Island Population are immigrants?
13%
What term describes the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, ethnicity, and immigration status, and how they overlap and influence health outcomes?
Intersectionality
This historical practice, often linked to racism, involved the systematic denial of various services, including healthcare, to specific racial groups based on their residential area.
Redlining
What is the name of the United States federal law that governs immigration and citizenship?
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (INA)
Black men are __ times more likely to be incarcerated that white men
5 times more likely
Racism that is deeply embedded in and throughout systems, laws, written or unwritten policies, and established beliefs and attitudes that produce widespread unfair treatment of people of color
Systemic Racism
These interventions, often initiated by grassroots movements, focus on improving health equity at the community level.
Community-based intervention
"Aliens And Nationality"
Title for the legal consequences for repeated illegal border crossings.
Title 8
Number of international migrants worldwide
244 million or 3%
To describe healthcare settings that are equipped with the knowledge and resources to provide adequate services of immigrants.
Immigrant Informed Care
Socially determined racial categories undergo a process where meaning and value are assigned.
Racialization
"The Public Health And Welfare”
Title introduced by Trump as a COVID-19 public health restriction affecting migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border ended on May 11, 2023
Title 42
The top country of origin for immigrants in Rhode Island
19 % Dominican Republic
A process at the individual level where people adopt the behaviors, attitudes, and values that are widespread in American society.
Acculturation