PERSPECTIVE article
Front. Child Adolesc. Psychiatry
Sec. Child Mental Health and Interventions
Volume 4 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/frcha.2025.1665928
This article is part of the Research TopicNavigating global instability: risk and resilience in youth mental healthView all 14 articles
Why we should care about Asylum Seeking Latina Pregnant Migrants
Provisionally accepted
Maria Cuervo
Amanda Venta*- University of Houston, Houston, United States
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Abstract Latina immigrants seeking asylum in the U.S. report high levels of trauma exposure and posttraumatic distress. Our clinical and research experiences highlight the prevalence of these health disparities for pregnant migrants, with serious consequences for them as well as for the developmental trajectory of their children. This minireview focuses on asylum seeking Latina pregnant migrants, and the implications current polices, and circumstances have on their health and wellbeing as well as their children's health and well-being.
Keywords: Latina, immigrant, pregnanant women, Trauma, Latinx, Hispanic
Received: 14 Jul 2025; Accepted: 21 Oct 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Cuervo and Venta. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Amanda Venta, amanda.venta@gmail.com
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