Date: Friday, August 8

Time: 4:30 PM - 6:10 PM

Session 026: Pursuing Racial Justice to Improve Health Inequities in Historically Marginalized Groups II
Room: Kimball Room

Sponsor: Health, Health Policy, and Health Services

Organizers: Virginia Kuulei Berndt, McDaniel College
Raja Staggers-Hakim, University of Connecticut

Presider &

Discussant: Raja Staggers-Hakim, University of Connecticut

Description: 

Current Heath Sociology and Public Health Scholarship acknowledge the need to eliminate health inequities in order to achieve health justice. However, despite awareness of this great need, much discussion in academic and policy circles are concerned with socioeconomic resources exclusively and neglect how groups from marginalized disadvantaged communities experience multiple oppressions simultaneously and overtime. This session will explore the interface of social protest for human and civil rights that communities are still fighting in the quest for racial justice and good health. Topics include health, human rights, environmental justice, criminology, education, and more, which make connections between racial justice and human rights related to various social determinants which drive adverse health outcomes.

Papers:

“Access to and Utilization of Dental Care Services by Older Adults in Nigeria: Barriers and Facilitators,” Sunkanmi Folorunsho, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Victor Ajayi, University of North Carolina School of Social Work, Munirat Sanmori, Georgia State University, Medinah Suleiman, Department of Common and Islamic Law, Raji Abdullateef, University of Ilorin and Abdulazeez Abdulganiyu, Brooks Insights

“Border Disablement: How Embodied Borders Disable Latina Immigrants with Breast Cancer,” Susana Echeverri Herrera, The University of New Mexico

“Familismo and Fear: Narratives of Parent Separation and Legal Uncertainty among Mexican and Central American Immigrants,” Natalie J. Cholula, Portland State University

“HIV Testing Patterns and Risk Behaviors among U.S. Deportees and Return Migrants in Mexico City,” Alice Cepeda, Arizona State University, Avelardo Valdez and Nefertari Rincon-Guerra, University of Southern California

“Transnational Care Webs: Understanding Latina Migrant Experiences Navigating Exclusion and Challenging Oppressions,” Alejandra G. Lemus, The University of New Mexico

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