Abstract
Recently, Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC) have encountered an escalation in adverse social conditions and trauma events in the United States. For individuals of Mexican ancestry in the United States (IMA-US), these recent events represent the latest chapter in their history of adversity: a history that can help us understand their social and health disparities. This paper utilized a scoping review to provide a historical and interdisciplinary perspective on discussions of mental health and substance use disorders relevant to IMA-US. The scoping review process yielded 16 peer reviewed sources from various disciplines, published from 1998 through 2018. Major themes included historically traumatic events, inter-generational responses to historical trauma, and vehicles of transmission of trauma narratives. Recommendations for healing from historical and contemporary oppression are discussed. This review expands the clinical baseline knowledge relevant to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of contemporary traumatic exposures for IMA-US.
Highlights
Genealogy 5: 32. https://doi.org/The current political climate engenders adverse social conditions for several populations, including Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC)
For individuals of Mexican ancestry in the United States (IMA-US) these social conditions have worsened in the last few years
The purpose of this article is to identify, evaluate, and integrate the scholarly work that uses a historical perspective to examine the behavioral health of IMA-US, including mood and substance use disorders (SUDs)
Summary
Genealogy 5: 32. https://doi.org/The current political climate engenders adverse social conditions for several populations, including Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC). IMA-US are by far the single largest U.S immigrant group by nationality, and their access to satisfactory social and healthcare services has been historically inadequate (González de Alba 2010; Satcher 2000; Stepler and Brown 2016). They have been the target of anti-immigrant sentiment and political violence (Greene 2018). A vivid example of this involves the conditions of homeland security detention centers in which people with real or perceived Mexican ancestry have been held They were not provided standard sanitation resources, the children were held in cages, and their parents were frequently deported without any plan for reunification (Greene 2018; Hernández 2019)
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