Dr. Sarah Horton recently published an article in Social Science & Medicine that showed that as Latinx immigrants began arriving in Colorado’s mountain resort area-- a relatively “new destination” for settlement--staff at a public hospital conceptualized them as a “threat” to the hospital's finances and image, implementing spatializing strategies to keep them far from its main campus and ER. Her work situates this chilly reception to Latinx newcomers within the broader context of the financialization of health care in Colorado, where mergers and acquisitions have created seven nonprofit hospital “mega-systems” over the past decade.
She has also written about the ethics and challenges of involving students in using asylum court observations, is engaged in policy advocacy around state programs to expand health care coverage to undocumented immigrants, and is currently documenting how the current federal policy climate is affecting undocumented Latinx immigrants in Denver and Garfield counties.
