Vulnerable Immigrant Population: Social, Economic, and Psychological Issues
Vicky L. Minik
BSHS/302
September 17, 2012
Tami Frye

Vulnerable Immigrant Population: Social, Economic, and Psychological Issues It is a difficult challenge for immigrants as they try to integrate with a new environment, new language, and a new socio-economic society. This paper will reveal the social factors that obstruct immigrants from integrating into society like; poor quality and type of education for themselves and their children, lack of secure jobs and poverty level, wages resulting in inadequate housing that is poor and overcrowded, mental issues such as depression, isolation from services that could assist them as well as cultural differences that may deter them from seeking service. To fully provide immigrants with the services they need, the United States needs to research the psychological and physical effects that predict the attitudes toward immigrants. By gaining more knowledge of those practices to support the policies and programs so that service care workers can carry out the appropriate interventions to meet the specific needs of the immigrant population. A century ago the revolution served as a promoter for immigration, providing the global economy with the distribution, production, and consumption of goods and service, much as it is today. Where ever the money and enterprise are sound, immigrants gravitate toward that country. The United States is seeing the largest population of immigrants in history. “Immigrants are identified as a “Vulnerable Population” meaning, a group of people at an increased risk for poor physical, psychological, social health outcomes, and inadequate health