Qualitative study reveals how border violence persists across migration stages in Latinx immigrants, highlighting its role as a multi-level social determinant of health.
Key Points
To examine how border violence operates as a persistent socio-structural system that shapes safety, security, and well-being among Latinx immigrants across all stages of migration.
Conducted 30 semi-structured interviews as part of a larger community-based participatory research project.
Evaluated participant narratives across pre-migration, transit, and post-migration contexts across individual, community, and structural levels.
Structural exclusion, economic instability, surveillance, and securitization continually restrict mobility and undermine stability long after initial settlement.
Participants actively negotiated safety and well-being through relational, symbolic, and material strategies embedded within immigrant communities.