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Many pandemic-related traumas that are new experiences for folks are facets of everyday life for undocumented communities. I am not comparing/invalidating these experiences, just saying, having worked with mixed-status communities for a decade, I can't help but notice.
Examples:
Examples:
You can't see a loved one when they die.
This is a notably painful part of undocumented life. When a parent dies outside of the country, folks are rarely able to attend their funerals, lest they be unable to return to the US. https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/04/13/999348/covid-19-grief-zoom-funerals/
This is a notably painful part of undocumented life. When a parent dies outside of the country, folks are rarely able to attend their funerals, lest they be unable to return to the US. https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/04/13/999348/covid-19-grief-zoom-funerals/
You, your parents, your children & your spouse all have different access to the vaccine.
Also common. Most undocumented folks live in "mixed status" families, and the healthcare the undocumented parent, the citizen child, and the child with DACA get are all different.
Also common. Most undocumented folks live in "mixed status" families, and the healthcare the undocumented parent, the citizen child, and the child with DACA get are all different.
Your health fundamentally depends on the political views of others.
Masks, vaccines, research, respirators, unfortunately we have seen all of these shaped by political views, just as police collaboration with ICE, DL access, medicaid expansion, etc, is informed by politics
Masks, vaccines, research, respirators, unfortunately we have seen all of these shaped by political views, just as police collaboration with ICE, DL access, medicaid expansion, etc, is informed by politics
You are in a high-risk group... and feel as though your health and that of your family is irrelevant.
Again, common among those who see family separation as an express goal of the US government.
Again, common among those who see family separation as an express goal of the US government.
The hypervigiliance and constant worry is taking a toll on your mental health.
The feeling of looking over one's shoulder and thinking "is today the day I catch it" may parallel the feeling of looking over one's shoulder and thinking "is today the day I get caught."
The feeling of looking over one's shoulder and thinking "is today the day I catch it" may parallel the feeling of looking over one's shoulder and thinking "is today the day I get caught."
