About the Cover
Cover. Huang, Yu, and Ledsky note in this month's Journal that children of immigrant families face a number of significant barriers in accessing health care, health insurance, and preventive health and dental services. Among these barriers is the fact that such children are more likely to live in poverty than children in nonimmigrant families, while those who are from racial and ethnic minority groups must also confront the same barriers that have determined poor access to health care for many generations of non-White children in the United States. That immigrants face social borders that influence their health and well-being even after they have settled in the United States is illustrated by the cover photograph, which shows eight-year-olds Kristina (left) and Mary (right) in late 2000 talking to each other across the fence that separates their homes in Cleburne, Texas. The girls became friends even though Mary's parents prohibited her from entering their Mexican-immigrant neighbors' yard.
Janet Jarman/CORBIS. Cover concept by Aleisha Kropf and Robert Sember.
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