Web Resources

This knowl­edge hub of web-based resources on migra­tion, health, and the safety-net in the US, Europe, and glob­ally includes influ­en­tial sources of research and analy­sis, thought­ful and provoca­tive com­men­taries by advo­cates, schol­ars, and jour­nal­ists, and inno­v­a­tive uses of media to tell the sto­ries of undoc­u­mented immi­grants and other low-income migrant work­ers. We invite you to explore these resources and to let us know about others.

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I. Migra­tion & health, includ­ing undoc­u­mented immi­grants & access to health care
II. Photo essays & doc­u­men­taries on undoc­u­mented immi­grants & migrant work­ers
III. News & analy­sis on immi­gra­tion reform pro­pos­als in the US
IV. Safety-net health care in the US.
I. Migra­tion and health, includ­ing undoc­u­mented immi­grants and access to health care

Access Denied: A Con­ver­sa­tion on Unau­tho­rized Im/migration and Health
http://accessdeniedblog.wordpress.com/
A blog with con­tri­bu­tions from anthro­pol­ogy schol­ars based in the US and other nations, fea­tur­ing news and com­men­taries on access to health care for undoc­u­mented immi­grants and other migrant workers.

Cal­i­for­nia Immi­grant Pol­icy Cen­ter
http://www.caimmigrant.org/healthcare.html
More undoc­u­mented immi­grants live in Cal­i­for­nia than in any other state. This pub­lic pol­icy web­site fea­tures updates, in Eng­lish and Span­ish, about efforts to pro­mote access to health care for undoc­u­mented and other immi­grants in California.

Cen­ters for Dis­ease Con­trol and Pre­ven­tion
http://www.cdc.gov/immigrantrefugeehealth/
CDC guide­lines for med­ical screen­ing and treat­ment for immi­grants, migrants, and refugees.

The Curi­ous Ostrich
http://thecuriousostrich.wordpress.com
A blog with con­tri­bu­tions from pub­lic health pro­fes­sion­als and immi­grant rights advo­cates on the impact of immi­gra­tion pol­icy and prac­tices on pop­u­la­tion health.

Health Care in Nowhere­Land
http://www.nowhereland.info
Includes the archives of a 2008-10 project based at the Cen­ter for Health and Migra­tion, Danube University-Krems (Aus­tria) that aimed to study and improve access to health ser­vices for undoc­u­mented migrants in the 27 Euro­pean Union (EU) mem­ber states.

Home Eco­nom­ics: The Invis­i­ble and Unreg­u­lated World of Domes­tic Work
http://www.domesticworkers.org/homeeconomics/
Data and key find­ings from an empir­i­cal sur­vey of domes­tic work­ers, con­ducted by the National Domes­tic Work­ers Alliance and the Cen­ter for Urban Eco­nomic Devel­op­ment at the Uni­ver­sity of Illi­nois, Chicago, with atten­tion to the sit­u­a­tion of undoc­u­mented workers.

Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org/topic/migration
New reports and analy­sis on the human rights of migrants globally.

Kaiser Fam­ily Foun­da­tion
http://kff.org/uninsured/issue-brief/immigration-reform-and-access-to-health-coverage-key-issues-to-consider/
KFF’s resources on cov­er­age for the unin­sured include an issue brief on access to health care for undoc­u­mented immi­grants, with atten­tion to cur­rent immi­gra­tion reform proposals.

MigHealth­Net
http://mighealth.net/
A hub of infor­ma­tion from 16 Euro­pean nations about access to health care for migrants and other minor­ity pop­u­la­tions in Europe, design to help share “good practices.”

Migrant Clin­i­cians Net­work
http://www.migrantclinician.org/
This web­site for health care pro­fes­sion­als includes an elec­tronic med­ical records ser­vice for use in the care of migrant work­ers who receive ser­vices from sev­eral com­mu­nity health centers.

Migra­tion Dia­logue
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/
Web­site houses news, analy­sis, and a vari­ety of opin­ions on dif­fer­ent aspects of migra­tion, includ­ing the impact of migra­tion on rural communities.

Migra­tion Pol­icy Insti­tute
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/
http://www.migrationinformation.org/datahub/
http://www.migrationinformation.org/
Exten­sive research and analy­sis of poli­cies con­cern­ing migra­tion and refugees at the local, national, and inter­na­tional lev­els. Key fea­tures of this site include the MPI Data Hub (facts, sta­tis­tics, and maps) and Migra­tion Infor­ma­tion Source (news, analy­sis, and commentary).

National Immi­gra­tion Law Cen­ter
http://www.nilc.org/
The NILC con­ducts advo­cacy and edu­ca­tion on behalf of low income immi­grants, includ­ing rights and pro­tec­tions con­cern­ing access to health care and pub­lic ben­e­fits. Web­site includes sum­maries of the Deferred Action for Child­hood Arrivals (DACA) pro­gram, the Afford­able Care Act (ACA), and immi­gra­tion reform proposals.

Pew Research Cen­ter: His­panic Trends Project
http://www.pewhispanic.org
Author­i­ta­tive source of demo­graphic stud­ies and other social sci­ence research on the His­panic pop­u­la­tion in the US and on undoc­u­mented immi­grants includ­ing key esti­mates of the undoc­u­mented immi­grant pop­u­la­tion. In addi­tion to datasets and reports, the web­site includes a detailed descrip­tion of how its esti­mates are calculated.

PICUM: Plat­form for Inter­na­tional Coop­er­a­tion on Undoc­u­mented Migrants
http://picum.org/en/about-us/
http://picum.org/en/news/bulletins/
A net­work of grass­roots orga­ni­za­tions, focus­ing on the human rights of undoc­u­mented immi­grants in Europe, includ­ing rights of access to health care in the EU and con­di­tions on the ground in EU mem­ber nations. Web­site includes news bul­letins on health care and other top­ics, with reports from Europe, the US, and Mex­ico, and other publications.

Rus­sell Sage Foun­da­tion: Immi­gra­tion Pro­gram
http://www.russellsage.org/research/immigration
Includes reports on Foundation-funded social sci­ence research on immi­gra­tion to the US, with atten­tion to the long-term prospects of con­tem­po­rary immi­grants and their children.

UCLA Cen­ter for Health Pol­icy
http://healthpolicy.ucla.edu A lead­ing source of quan­ti­ta­tive infor­ma­tion on immi­grants’ use of health ser­vices in the US.

Urban Insti­tute Health Pol­icy Cen­ter
http://www.urban.org/health_policy/
Includes search­able data­base of pub­li­ca­tions by Urban Insti­tute schol­ars on top­ics includ­ing undoc­u­mented immi­grants and access to health care.

World Bank: Peo­ple Move blog
http://blogs.worldbank.org/peoplemove/ World Bank stud­ies and other pub­li­ca­tions on migra­tion and remit­tances, includ­ing remit­tance pat­terns between undoc­u­mented immi­grants in the US and other coun­tries.
II. Photo essays and doc­u­men­taries on undoc­u­mented immi­grants and migrant workers

“Bod­ies on the Bor­der” (2013)
An opin­ion doc­u­men­tary (Op-Doc) pro­duced for The New York Times by film­maker Marc Sil­ver, pro­fil­ing foren­sic anthro­pol­o­gist Robin Reineke, whose Miss­ing Migrant Project seeks to iden­tify undoc­u­mented immi­grants whose bod­ies are found in the Ari­zona desert.

“Costly Dream” (2007)
An audio slide show by Susan Meise­las in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Human Rights Watch, on the expe­ri­ences of Indone­sian women employed as domes­tic work­ers in other Asian nations.

“An Immigrant’s Jour­ney” (2013)
A photo essay by Getty Images pho­tog­ra­pher John Moore, fol­low­ing immi­grants from Cen­tral Amer­ica to the US.

“The Care­taker” (2013)
An Op-Doc pro­duced for The New York Times by film­maker Theo Rigby, about an undoc­u­mented immi­grant from Fiji who works as a domes­tic care­giver in the US.

“Lost in Deten­tion” (2011)
A Front­line doc­u­men­tary about the Immi­gra­tion and Cus­toms Enforce­ment (ICE) deten­tion program.

“Sin País” (With­out Coun­try) (2012)
An award-winning short doc­u­men­tary by Theo Rigby about par­ents fac­ing depor­ta­tion and the prospect of sep­a­ra­tion from their cit­i­zen children.

“Undoc­u­men­tary” (2012)
A web doc­u­men­tary, pro­duced by PICUM, about the expe­ri­ences of undoc­u­mented immi­grants in Europe, includ­ing inter­views with clin­i­cians pro­vid­ing health care in immi­grant communities.

“State of Excep­tion” (2013)
See also: Undoc­u­mented Migra­tion Project http://undocumentedmigrationproject.com/home/about
A video­graphic instal­la­tion by Richard Barnes, based on cloth­ing, water bot­tles, and other arti­facts left along the US/Mexico bor­der by undoc­u­mented immi­grants. The arti­facts were col­lected by Uni­ver­sity of Michi­gan anthro­pol­o­gist Jason de Leon, who stud­ies undoc­u­mented migra­tion as a “clan­des­tine social process.”
III. News and analy­sis on immi­gra­tion reform in the US

Many of the web­sites listed in Sec­tion I., above, fea­ture news and analy­sis on immi­gra­tion law and pol­icy in the US and other nations. The fol­low­ing sites offer frequently-updated cov­er­age of immi­gra­tion reform pro­pos­als in the US.

Amer­i­can Civil Lib­er­ties Union
http://www.aclu.org/immigrants-rights

Cen­ter for Amer­i­can Progress: Think Progress
http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/issue/?mobile=nc

Lawrence Downes, New York Times Edi­to­r­ial Board
http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/author/lawrence-downes
IV. Safety-net health care in the U.S.

These web­sites include datasets, empir­i­cal stud­ies, analy­sis, and other infor­ma­tion on safety-net hos­pi­tals, com­mu­nity health cen­ters, and insur­ance pro­grams in the US.

Agency for Health­care Research and Qual­ity
http://www.ahrq.gov/

America’s Essen­tial Hos­pi­tals
http://naph.org/

Cen­ter for Study­ing Health Sys­tem Change
http://www.hschange.com/

The Com­mon­wealth Fund
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/

National Acad­emy for State Health Pol­icy
http://www.nashp.org/specific-populations/vulnerable-populations

National Asso­ci­a­tion of Com­mu­nity Health Cen­ters
http://www.nachc.org/

National Health Pol­icy Forum
http://www.nhpf.org/home

Qualis Health
http://www.qualishealth.org/

Robert Wood John­son Foun­da­tion
http://www.rwjf.org/

Safety Net Hos­pi­tals for Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal Access
http://www.snhpa.org/

Safety Net Med­ical Home Ini­tia­tive
http://www.safetynetmedicalhome.org/

Nancy Berlinger & Car­o­line Rath, Edi­tors
Mohini Baner­jee, Rebecca Kaeb­nick & Naomi Schein­er­man, Research Assis­tants
URLs and con­tent descrip­tions cur­rent as of Sep­tem­ber 11, 2013