I was pleased to publish this piece by Diya Kallivayalil in The New England Journal of Higher Education (NEJHE) in March 2021 …

NEJHE has spilled much ink (pixels?) on stories related to trauma, the coronavirus pandemic and immigration, treated as mostly distinct issues. In this NEJHE piece titled Trauma, Pandemic and Immigration, psychologist Diya Kallivayalil explains how the the three forces interact. The Victims of Violence Program that she directs at Cambridge Health Alliance pursues its mission of bringing health equity and social justice to underserved, medically indigent populations. A faculty member in the Psychiatry Department at Harvard Medical School, Kallivayalil writes of many patients who have lost their incomes and faced racialized targeting of immigrants in workplaces and beyond.

Notably, among the “Related Posts” that we list with the Kallivayalil piece, check out World-Class Care: Boston Welcome Back Center Puts Internationally Educated Nurses Back To Work. That piece is from 2008, when NEJHE was called Connection and the journal was published in print on paper. It examines New England’s vexing shortage of nurses just as immigrant nurses who were trained in their home countries could not penetrate this market due to red tape and differences in healthcare credentialing. It’s a problem that seems to be only getting worse from what I see in my post-NEJHE gig helping teach English (and, of course, job search) at the Malden, Mass.-based Immigrant Learning Center.

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