What Should Students Learn About the Importance of Cultural Brokering in Immigrant Communities?

Jane Lee; Gabriel Robles; Latoya Small

doi:10.1001/amajethics.2023.809

What Should Students Learn About the Importance of Cultural Brokering in Immigrant Communities?

AMA J Ethics. 2023 Nov 1;25(11):E809-817. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.809.

Authors

Jane Lee¹, Gabriel Robles², Latoya Small³

Affiliations

¹ Faculty member in the School of Social Work at the University of Washington in Seattle.
² Assistant professor and the Chancellor's Scholar for Inclusive Excellence in Sexual and Gender Minority Health in the School of Social Work at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
³ Assistant professor in the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles.

PMID: 38085583
DOI: 10.1001/amajethics.2023.809

Abstract

Cultural brokers can help clinicians meet needs of immigrant patients. This article considers loneliness as an endemic experience of immigrants in the United States and discusses how cultural brokerage practices can reduce the ill health effects of loneliness by helping clinicians contextualize their interactions with immigrant patients and by helping immigrants navigate the health care system and build social connections.

MeSH terms

Emigrants and Immigrants*
Humans
Students
United States