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Immigration and Mental Health
Women’s History Month provides an opportunity to reflect long history of immigrant women in the United States. Women have made one significant part of the immigrant population and currently constitute more than half of the total US immigrant population. Throughout history, women have left their countries of origin to escape poverty, conflict, persecution and other conditions that affect them. safety and livelihood. Rising tides of violence, incl gender and group violence, have also forced women to flee their homelands. Women migrate in search of work, educational opportunities and a better life for themselves and their families, yet many face difficult and traumatic conditions on their journeys.

Immigrant women are particularly vulnerable to migration-related stressors and mental health distress often due to exposure to traumatic experiences before, during and after migration. Prior to migration, exposure to extreme poverty and violence increases the risk of depression in immigrants. During migration, the risk of physical, psychological and sexual violence, exploitation, human and drug trafficking and inhuman conditions of detention often contribute to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression and anxiety. Once settled in that country, immigration policies, loss of social networks, discrimination, economic pressures, dangerous working conditions, and low socioeconomic status can further increase stress and unhealthy coping strategies.

The story of Elizabeth
Elizabeth, a pseudonym, is an immigrant from Ecuador who came to the United States in 2001 in search of a better life. Unfortunately, no American dream awaited Elizabeth. The father of her four children had become her worst nightmare. He was emotionally, physically and psychologically abusive towards her. Fearing deportation and separation from her children, Elizabeth hesitated to go to the police and stayed with her husband. “I suffered everything a woman could suffer,” she told Al Día News. “I was scared, alone and didn’t even speak English.”

Elizabeth eventually managed to escape and find resources to help when she moved to Philadelphia. As a single mother in a new city, Elizabeth had to support herself and her children. Seek support at the Sisters of Saint Joseph Welcome Center. The Center helped Elizabeth with her immigration and personal matters.

Immigrant women like Elizabeth are among them the most underserved people in the world. Policies and systems that recognize unequal power dynamics, fear of disclosure and deportation, barriers to legal and immigrant support, and stigma are needed to support women experiencing gender-based violence and abuse. The Violence Against Women Act, U nonimmigrant status, and mental health counseling promising possibilities for justice for surviving immigrants.

Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)
VAWA was enacted by Congress in 1994. VAWA created a special pathway to legal immigration status for victims of domestic abuse. Victims of battery or extreme cruelty can self-report if the acts were committed by spouses, parents, or children who are US citizens or lawful permanent residents (LPRs). Parents of US citizens may also qualify for a VAWA self-report. Most importantly, VAWA’s self-referral allows victims of abuse to “obtain legal standing without the participation or control of the abuser’. VAWA recognizes that physical and psychological violence committed by US citizens and LPRs against immigrants. It also highlights abuse in an intimate partner setting and implicitly acknowledges the possibilities power imbalance in mixed-state interactions. VAWA’s immigration provisions have been incorporated into the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), making permanent provisions that do not require reauthorization by Congress – confirming the urgency from these cases. Along with victims of domestic abuse, victims of crime are also provided a special path to legal immigration status.

U Visa
Congress created the U nonimmigrant status (U visa) in 2000 to help victims of crime. The US visa is reserved for “victims of certain crimes who have suffered mental or physical abuse and assist law enforcement or government officials in the investigation or prosecution of criminal activity.” The legislation aims to strengthen the ability of law enforcement agencies to “investigate and prosecute cases of domestic violence, sexual assault, trafficking in non-citizens and other crimes,” while also protection of victims of crime that assist in the investigation or prosecution of criminal activity. Unlike VAWA visa cases, U require law enforcement the participation and immigration status of the offender is irrelevant.

Mental Health: More than a Clinical Service
Undocumented people who are victims of domestic abuse or crime may seek services from mental health systems to deal with their trauma. Documentation of mental health services can be used to support a VAWA self-application process and U visa issuance and begin a path to legal immigration status. For example, undocumented individuals who want to self-petition under VAWA must prove that they have been victims of “battery or extreme cruelty.” During the self-application process, individuals can obtain the support of a domestic violence advocate or mental health counselor who can write “affirmative statements“. Affirmative statements can describe the facts of the abuse and are particularly useful “when the abuse was no physical or no police reportsprotection orders or medical reports’.

U visa applicants can also send evidence to prove their eligibility. If a person is seeing a mental health therapist or counselor, a statement from that professional can be evidence. The therapist may describe the events of the crime to show “significant damage” experienced the applicant. Recounting abuse can be re-traumatizing for individuals, so counselors can too explain details of the crime based on what the person has disclosed.

Although mental health services can be critical in the VAWA and U visa processes, immigrants face many barriers to mental health care. Ignorance of publicly funded medical care, reluctance to use public benefits for fear that disclosing personal information will increase their risk of deportation, limited access to translation services, transportation, employment, and education hinder the ability of immigrant women to understand and navigate the health system. Moreover, Immigration status is a determinant of access to health care. Due to exclusionary policies, immigrants were is systematically prevented from obtaining coverage and seeking necessary health services. While the Affordable Care Act (ACA) expanded health care coverage to legally admitted immigrants and allowed them to buy insurance through the Health Insurance Marketplace, undocumented adults and children is prohibited from purchasing health insurance and were left uninsured. Immigrants also work low-paying jobs in industries that are less likely to offer employer-based health insurance and often cannot afford to pay for private health insurance. In addition, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) requires skilled immigrants to wait 5 years before they are eligible to enroll in Medicaid and Cuts Undocumented Immigrants From Medicaid Completely (PDF | 790 KB). These social and political barriers can prevent immigrant women from seeking mental health care and must be addressed to increase the accessibility of mental health care in this population.

conclusion
Mental health care can play critical roles in the lives of immigrant women who have experienced traumatic life events. The intersection of immigration and mental health shows that equality efforts are connected through policies that span the fields of public health and immigration. Collaboration between mental health systems and immigration processes can create a transformative future that allows immigrant survivors to they overcome victimization and fear to find their own power, action and possibility.

SAMHSA Resources
Although SAMHSA does not have programs that specifically target this population, many of its programs include women’s health behavior. The Residential Treatment for Pregnant and Postpartum Women grant program provides treatment to pregnant and postpartum women for substance use disorders. Early Childhood Mental Health Programs aim to reduce the impact of substance use and mental illness in our communities by funding programs that promote and support the health and well-being of young children and their families. These programs have a two-generation focus on children and caregivers of young children, which disproportionately includes women, although services are not exclusively offered to women/female caregivers. Finally, of SAMHSA findtreatment.gov The site is a comprehensive resource for people seeking treatment for mental and substance use disorders in the United States and its territories.


Please note that this blog is not about asylum seekers.

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