Recipients of PSC Small Grant Awards

My research interests are specifically understanding legal status and health. In the literature, we know legal status may be thought of as a fundamental cause of health, whereby undocumented immigrants are disadvantaged relative to documented immigrants. However, our understanding of immigrant illegality and health is limited to treating legal status as static rather than dynamic and changing across the life course. To fully understand racialized legal status as a social determinant of health, I propose to study the formerly undocumented Latino/a older adult population in the United States.