The spillover of Us immigration policy on citizens and permanent residents of Mexican descent: How internalizing "illegality" impacts public health in the borderlands

Frontiers in Public Health

Volumn 3, Issue JUN, 2015, Pages

  Sabo, Samantha ^a   Lee, Alison Elizabeth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS AMÉRICAS PUEBLA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Border health; Immigration policy; Mistreatment; Prevention and control; Psychological; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 85029374155     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2015.00155     Document Type: Article

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