Immigrant and Migrant Health

An 8-year-old boy's battered feet hint at the deeper traumas many migrant children are left carrying.

In LA's Boyle Heights neighborhood, a safety net clinic says patients have come to distrust health care in the wake of President Trump's aggressive moves on illegal immigration.

For years, the New River has been plagued by toxic pollutants and raw sewage spills. In 2016, two Desert Sun journalists set out to discover why.

There is no way for an outsider to just parachute into a different culture and start writing about something as complex as refugee trauma. It takes building trust in that community.

For Hmong Americans, patchwork and embroidery are keys to preserving history and documenting the future.

A few days before Christmas in 2015, a 54-year-old immigrant named Jose Manuel Azurdia Hernandez began vomiting in his cell at a detention center in Adelanto, California.

"It was Laos, and the elders, that taught me that we create community and community creates us," writes Vlai Ly, a Hmong-American writer and photographer working in Sacramento.

Health workers and a younger generation help Hmong elders overcome a devastating past in one Northern California community.

If rural America has become the new “inner city,” then nowhere is this more apparent than in educational systems.

"I am often asked why public health should care about the role of the court and who sits on it. The answer is simple: Court rulings can support or overturn policies that dramatically affect the public’s health."