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Being an immigrant with disabilities: characteristics of a population facing multiple structural challenges
Being an immigrant with disabilities: characteristics of a population facing multiple structural challenges
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Author(s):
- Echave, Paola A., author
Gonzalez, Dulce, author - Contributor(s):
- Urban Institute, issuing body.
- Publication:
- Washington, DC : Urban Institute, April 2022
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Disabled Persons -- statistics & numerical data
Emigrants and Immigrants -- statistics & numerical data
Employment -- statistics & numerical data
Health Equity -- economics
Health Policy
Poverty -- economics
Social Discrimination -- statistics & numerical data
Social Mobility
United States - Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- People with disabilities often face serious challenges that impact their daily lives, such as increased discrimination at work or when applying for jobs compared to those without disabilities, and these challenges contribute to employment and pay gaps. As a result, people with disabilities earn lower wages and income than people without disabilities and have high poverty rates overall. These disadvantages can be compounded for immigrants with disabilities, which is particularly true for those who are female; have limited English proficiency; or have nonpermanent resident, undocumented, or temporary or seasonal worker status. Immigrant eligibility status restrictions create additional barriers to safety net resources that could mitigate these disadvantages. Moreover, the fear of immigration enforcement and retaliation from employers may discourage immigrant workers from enforcing their workplace rights and voicing grievances or wage claims. Understanding the prevalence and nature of disabilities among immigrant groups can guide the development of policies and programs to mitigate the negative mental health and economic consequences associated with the double minority challenge, which refers to being an immigrant and having a disability. Previous research has provided information on the prevalence of disability among older immigrant populations (those age 50 and older) and specific immigrant populations, such as Asian and Latinx immigrants. However, limited research discusses the prevalence of disability among nonelderly adult immigrants and characteristics of this population. This brief focuses on select characteristics of nonelderly immigrants with disabilities and lays the groundwork for future research. We draw on five-year estimates from the 2015 to 2019 American Community Survey (ACS) integrated public-use microdata. Our sample consists of nonelderly immigrant adults ages 18 to 64 (N = 1,422,274). We define immigrants as people who are noncitizens or naturalized citizens and disability as the presence of one or more of the following: ambulatory difficulty, cognitive difficulty, independent-living difficulty, vision difficulty, hearing difficulty, and self-care difficulty.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-DC license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (23 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918486682906676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918486682906676