TY - JOUR
T1 - Aquí Entre Nos (Just Between Us)
T2 - Engagement of Hotel Housekeepers During Sociopolitical and Environmental Change
AU - Sabo, Samantha
AU - Jiménez, Dulce J.
AU - Longorio, Alexandra Samarron
AU - Gomez, Omar
AU - Liebert, Melissa
AU - Cuautle, Miriam Adriana
AU - Shuman, Sara
AU - de Zapien, Jill Guernsey
AU - Milczarek-Desai, Shefali
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 Johns Hopkins University Press.
PY - 2024/6/1
Y1 - 2024/6/1
N2 - Background: Aquí Entre Nos (Between Us) is a community-based participatory research project to engage rural, ethnoracially diverse hotel housekeepers in a right to work state during a time of national anti-immigrant policy, wildfires and emergence of a global pandemic. Objectives: We aimed to (1) build trust and social support with the hotel housekeeping community, (2) learn about the occupational health, safety, and workers’ rights challenges, strategies, and solutions held by workers, and (3) develop a workforce-driven research and action agenda to improve labor and health conditions. Methods: Participatory mixed methods rooted in popular education are described to form an advisory board and engage the workforce. Lessons Learned: Trusted relationships built through community organizing around immigration, housing, and minimum wage were critical to engage and drive a worker centered research agenda. Conclusions: Despite challenges, housekeeper advisors defined a research agenda that addressed immediate-and long-term needs of the workforce.
AB - Background: Aquí Entre Nos (Between Us) is a community-based participatory research project to engage rural, ethnoracially diverse hotel housekeepers in a right to work state during a time of national anti-immigrant policy, wildfires and emergence of a global pandemic. Objectives: We aimed to (1) build trust and social support with the hotel housekeeping community, (2) learn about the occupational health, safety, and workers’ rights challenges, strategies, and solutions held by workers, and (3) develop a workforce-driven research and action agenda to improve labor and health conditions. Methods: Participatory mixed methods rooted in popular education are described to form an advisory board and engage the workforce. Lessons Learned: Trusted relationships built through community organizing around immigration, housing, and minimum wage were critical to engage and drive a worker centered research agenda. Conclusions: Despite challenges, housekeeper advisors defined a research agenda that addressed immediate-and long-term needs of the workforce.
KW - Community-based participatory research
KW - Southwestern United States
KW - community health research
KW - community-based participatory research
KW - immigrant health
KW - occupational health
KW - women’s health
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U2 - 10.1353/cpr.2024.a930717
DO - 10.1353/cpr.2024.a930717
M3 - Article
C2 - 38946566
AN - SCOPUS:85197624014
SN - 1557-0541
VL - 18
SP - 213
EP - 223
JO - Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action
JF - Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action
IS - 2
ER -