Peer-reviewed journal articles
Chen, L., Young, M.-E., Rodriguez, M., Kietzman, K. (2023) Immigrants’ Enforcement Experiences and Concern about Accessing Public Benefits or Services. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health.
Young, M.-E., Tafolla, S., Saadi, A., Sudhinaraset, M., Chen, L., Pourat, N. (2023) Beyond “chilling effects”: Asian and Latinx immigrants’ experiences with enforcement and barriers to health care. Medical Care.
Young, M.-E., Chen, Sudhinaraset, M., Saadi, A., Kietzman, K., Wallace, S. P. (2022) Cumulative experiences of immigration enforcement policy and the physical and mental health outcomes of Asian and Latinx immigrants in the United States. International Migration Review.
Goldman-Mellor, S., Plancarte, V., Perez-Lua, F., Payan, D., Young, M.-E. (2022). Mental health among rural Latino immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic.. SSM-Mental health, 3, 100177.
Young, M.-E., Perez-Lua, F., Sarnoff, H., Plancarte, V., Goldman-Mellor, S., Payan, D. (2022). Working around safety net exclusions during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study of rural Latinx immigrants. Social science & medicine (1982), 311, 115352. 0277-9536.
Young, M.-E., Crookes, D. M., Torres, J. (2022). Self-rated health of both US citizens and noncitizens is associated with state-level immigrant criminalization policies. SSM-Population Health, 19, 101199.
Young, M.-E., Payan, D., Guzman-Ruiz, I. (2022). The structural impacts of enforcement policy on Latino immigrant health. Frontiers in Public Health.
Payan, D., Perez-Lua, F., Goldman-Mellor, S., Young, M.-E. (2022). Rural Household Food Insecurity among Latino Immigrants during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Nutrients, 14(13).
Sudhinaraset, M., Choi, H. Y., Nwankwo, E., Young, M.-E. (2022). Association between immigration enforcement encounters and COVID-19 testing and delays in care: a cross-sectional study of undocumented young adult immigrants in California. BMC Public Health: 22, 22, 1558.
Nakphong, M. K., Young, M.-E. D., Morales, B., Guzman-Ruiz, I. Y., Chen, L., Kietzman, K. G. (2022). Social exclusion at the intersections of immigration, employment, and healthcare policy: A qualitative study of Mexican and Chinese immigrants in California. Social science & medicine, 298.
Young, M.-E., Sarnoff, H., Lang, D., Ramirez, A. Susana. (2021) Coverage and framing of immigration policy in US newspapers. The Milbank Quarterly, 100.
Saadi, A., Patler, C., Young, M.-E. Cumulative Risk of Immigration Prison Conditions on Health Outcomes among Detained Immigrants in California. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 9(6): 2518–2532
Patler, C., Saadi, A., Young, M.-E., Franco, K. (2021) Release from US Immigration Detention May Improve Physical and Psychological Stress and Health: Results from a Two-Wave Panel Study in California. SSM-Mental Health, 1, 100035.
Chen, L., Hin, T., Wu, D., Young, M.-E. (2021) Cross-Cultural Researchers' Positionality in Immigrant Health Research: Reflections on Conducting Research on Chinese Immigrants’ Experiences in the United States. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 20:1-13.
Gutiérrez, Á., Young, M.-E., Dueñas, M., García, A., Márquez, G., Chávez, M. E., Ramírez, S., Rico, S., Bravo, R. L. (2021). Laboring With the Heart: Promotoras' Transformations, Professional Challenges, and Relationships With Communities. Family & community health, 44(3), 162-170.
Sudhinaraset, M., Woofter, R., Young, M.-E., Landrian, A., Vilda, D., Wallace, S. P. (2021). Analysis of State-Level Immigrant Policies and Preterm Births by Race/Ethnicity Among Women Born in the US and Women Born Outside the US. JAMA network open, 4(4), e214482.
Payan, D., Rios, K. D., Ramirez, A. Susana, Young, M.-E. (2021). Structural Barriers Influencing Food Insecurity, Malnutrition, and Health Among Latinas During and After COVID-19: Considerations and Recommendations. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, May;121(5):837-843.
Lopez, W. D., Kline, N., LeBrón, A., Novak, N. L., Young, M.-E., Gonsalves, G., Mishori, R., Safi, B. A., Kysel, I. M. (2021). Preventing the Spread of COVID-19 in Immigration Detention Centers Requires the Release of Detainees. American journal of public health, 111(1), 110-115.
Young, M.-E., Beltran-Sanchez, H., Wallace, S. P. (2020). States with fewer criminalizing immigrant policies have smaller health care inequities between citizens and noncitizens. BMC Public Health, 20.
Saadi, A., Young, M.-E., Patler, C., Estrada, J. L., Venters, H. (2020). Understanding US Immigration Detention: Reaffirming Rights and Addressing Social-Structural Determinants of Health. Health and human rights journal, 22(1).
Ortega, A. N., Pintor, J. K., Langellier, B. A., Vargas Bustamante, A., Young, M.-E., Prelip, M. L., Alberto, C. K., Wallace, S. P. (2020). Cardiovascular disease behavioral risk factors among Latinos by citizenship and documentation status.. BMC public health, 20(1), 629.
Young, M.-E., Wallace, S. P. (2019). Included, but Deportable: A New Public Health Approach to Policies That Criminalize and Integrate Immigrants.. American journal of public health, 109(9), 1171-1176. 0090-0036.
Wallace, S. P., Young, M.-E., Rodríguez, M. A., Brindis, C. D. (2019). A social determinants framework identifying state-level immigrant policies and their influence on health.. SSM - population health, 7, 016-16.
Pourat, N., Bonilla, A. G., Young, M.-E., Rodriguez, M. A., Wallace, S. P. (2018). There and Back Again: How the Repeal of ACA Can Impact Community Health Centers and the Populations They Serve.. Family & community health, 41(2), 83-94. 0160-6379.
Young, M.-E., Leon-Perez, G., Wells, C. R., Wallace, S. P. (2018). More Inclusive States, Less Poverty Among Immigrants? An Examination of Poverty, Citizenship Stratification, and State Immigrant Policies. Population research and policy review, 37(2), 205-228. 0167-5923.
Young, M.-E., Madrigal, D. S. (2017). Documenting legal status: a systematic review of measurement of undocumented status in health research.. Public health reviews, 38, 26. 0301-0422.
Young, M.-E., Leon-Perez, G., Wells, C. R., Wallace, S. P. (2017). Inclusive state immigrant policies and health insurance among Latino, Asian/Pacific Islander, Black, and White noncitizens in the United States.. Ethnicity & health, 24(8), 960-972. 1355-7858.
Young, M.-E., Pebley, A. R. (2017). Legal Status, Time in the USA, and the Well-Being of Latinos in Los Angeles.. Journal of urban health: bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 94(6), 764-775. 1099-3460.
Torres, J. M., Young, M.-E. (2016). A life-course perspective on legal status stratification and health.. SSM - population health, 2, 141-148.
Castañeda, H., Holmes, S. M., Madrigal, D. S., Young, M.-E., Beyeler, N., Quesada, J. (2015). Immigration as a social determinant of health.. Annual review of public health, 36, 375-92. 0163-7525.
Policy briefs and other writing
Pourat, N., Young, M.-E., Morales, B., Chen, L. (2021) Latinx and Asian Immigrants Have Negative Perceptions of the Immigrant Experience in California. Center for Health Policy Research. University of California, Los Angeles.
Young, M.-E., Tafolla, S. (2021) Latinx and Asian Immigrants Across California Regions have Different Experiences with Law and Immigration Enforcement. Center for Health Policy Research. University of California, Los Angeles.
Young, M.-E., Wallace, S. P. (2021). A Window of Opportunity Is Opening to Improve Immigrant Health: A Research and Practice Agenda. American journal of public health, 2021 Mar;111(3):398-401.
Young, M.-E., Perez-Lua, F., Sarnoff, H., Payan, D., Goldman-Mellor, S. (2020) The pandemic’s financial toll on Latino immigrants in California's hardest hit rural regions threatens their work, families, and health. University of California, Merced, Oct
Wallace, S. P., Young, M.-E. (2018). Immigration Versus Immigrant: The Cycle of Anti-Immigrant Policies.. 0090-0036. (Date Published - April 1, 2018).
Young, M.-E. (2018). Latino Immigrants Have Higher Rates of Health Insurance in States with Inclusive Policies. (Date Published - February 28, 2018).
Young, M.-E., Wallace, S. P., Bonilla, A. G., Pourat, N., Rodriguez, M. (2017). Partnership Strategies of Community Health Centers: Building Capacity in Good Times and Bad.. (Date Published - July 31, 2017).
Bravo, R. L., Gutierrez, A., Young, M.-E. (2017). Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Dancing Toward Equitable Collaboration. 2157-1732. (Date Published - January 1, 2017).
Rodriguez, M., Young, M.-E., Wallace, S. P. (2015). Creating Conditions to Support Healthy People: State Policies that Affect the Health of Undocumented Immigrants and Their Families. (Date Published - April 15, 2015).