Deportability and Mental Health  

The Mental Health and Deportation Working Group includes scholars, researchers, evaluators and writers who seek to contribute to the scholarship on migration and mental health by studying the impact of immigration enforcement policies on mental wellbeing. Among the different topics addressed are: the consequences of deportablity on immigrants, their families and communities; trauma related to the migration experience of refugees; the most recent experiences at the U.S.-Mexico involving family separations; and policies that have led to the criminalization of immigrants and immigrant life. Current research by our members include studying feelings of belonging and membership by CUNY noncitizen students, and the logics of psychosocial and behavioral health/therapeutic interventions on refugees.