Immigration and Health Initiative (IAHI)

The City University of New York (CUNY)

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Research Areas

  • Health Disparities and Pharmaceutical Marketing
  • Latinas in NYC: Weight Control, Physical Activity and Paradoxical Body Images
  • Immigration and Alternative Healing Practices
  • Immigrant Health & the Obesity Epidemics
  • Global Health and Transnationalism

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  • Maria's Dilemma: Between Nostalgia and Healthy Foods
  • Argentines in New York City
  • Botanicas
  • AAA Newsletter
  • Proliferan botánicas in Nueva York
  • With no insurance and cultural mistrust, Latinos seek healthcare in botánicas

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Published Articles


  • Religion and Mental Health Among Immigrants and Minorities in the US
  • The Problem with Similarity: Ethnic Affinity Migrants in Spain
  • Imagined Homecomings: The Problem with Similarity
  • Immigrants and Urban Aging: Toward a Policy Framework
  • Do Real Women Have Curves?
  • Determinants of Latinas' Obesity in the US
  • Fatalism or Destino?
  • Welcome to El Barrio: An Afternoon in the Company of a Latina Folk Healer
  • Encyclopedia of Obesity: IAHI entries
  • Book Review: The Sorcery of Color: Identity, Race, and Gender in Brazil
  • From "Shrinks" to "Urban Shamans": Argentine Immigrants'  Therapeutic Eclecticism in NYC
  • Los Argentinos en los EE.UU.: Los Desafíos e Ilusiones de una Minoría Invisible
  • Botanicas in America's Backyard
  • Fatalism Reconsidered
  • Latino Immigrant Health in the U.S.
  • Beyond the Supernatural: Latino Healers Treating Latino Immigrants in NYC
  • Welcoming the Stranger
  • Editorial article
  • Neither Virgins Nor Whores: Tango Lyrics and Gender Representations
  • Performing The Tango's Dual Life: Immigrant Tales From The Field
  • Extraordinary Anthropology: Ethnographic Rendez-vous
  • Viladrich's Ethnography: "You Just Belong to Us"
  • Tango Immigrants in New York City

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