COVID and Coraje: Negotiating Latinx Immigrant Experiences of the Pandemic

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dc.contributor.authorDuncan, Whitney
dc.contributor.authorHorton, Sarah
dc.contributor.authorYarris, Kristin
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-07T01:59:07Z
dc.date.available2022-08-07T01:59:07Z
dc.date.issued2021-01-01
dc.description11 pagesen_US
dc.description.abstractIn this paper, we compare observations from engaged ethnography and participant observation with Latinx immigrants in Colorado and Oregon during the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, we focus on lived experiences of structural vulnerability, as well as the ways in which COVID-related disparities have become internalized as stigma and have amplified immigrants’ experiences of stress, anxiety, and “aislamiento,” or isolation. Indeed, Latinx immigrants in the US—especially those without legal status and those in mixed-status families—face a range of exclusions, discourses of blame and (un)deservingness, and forms of precarity that have contributed to disproportionate risk, suffering, and fear as the pandemic has unfolded. At the same time, by laying bare blatant injustices and racist exclusions, the pandemic has prompted some Latinx immigrants in our research and advocacy sites to enact new forms of resistance and contestation. We detail the range of ways which, in efforts to stay healthy and to challenge discriminatory portrayals of themselves as either disease carriers unlikely to heed public health warnings or as “public charges,” they insist upon their own rights, worth, belonging, and dignity. Finally, we conclude by discussing some of the ways in which these two U.S. states—and the health and social service organizations working with Latinx communities within them—have attempted to address coronavirus disparities among Latinx communities, showing how particular approaches can assuage short-term suffering and improve access to healthcare and other social supports, while others may create a new set of barriers to access for already marginalized communitiesen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Science Foundationen_US
dc.identifier.citationDuncan, Whitney L, Horton, Sarah B., & Yarris, Kristin. COVID and Coraje: Negotiating Latinx Immigrant Experiences of the Pandemic. Society for Psychological Anthropology Biennial Meetings, (). Retrieved from https://par.nsf.gov/biblio/10277035.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/27485
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAmerican Anthropological Associationen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSociety for Psychological Anthropology Biennial Meetings;
dc.rightsCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USen_US
dc.titleCOVID and Coraje: Negotiating Latinx Immigrant Experiences of the Pandemicen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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