Associate professor published in "Social Science and Medicine"
Associate professor Nalini Negi, PhD; Jenny Siegel, doctoral student, and MSW alumni Priya Sharma and Gabriel Fiallos have a new paper published in Social Science and Medicine that explores the social condition of one group of undocumented immigrant men, Latino immigrant day laborers (LIDL), and their experiences of social exclusion, social isolation, loneliness and health in the new immigrant settlement city of Baltimore.
Using ethnographic methods, street recruitment and focus groups, a structural process of social exclusion and disconnection that exposed LIDLs to experiences of racism, structural vulnerability, and dehumanization was revealed. These experiences, in turn, may have heightened social isolation and loneliness and patterned substance use and sexual risk-taking among this group.
More details can be found here: Negi, N. J., Siegel, J. L., Sharma, P.B., & Fiallos, G. (2021). “The solitude absorbs and it oppresses”: ‘Illegality’ and its implications on Latino immigrant day laborers' social isolation, loneliness and health. Social Science & Medicine, 113737.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277953621000691