Aquí Entre Nos (Just Between Us): Engagement of Hotel Housekeepers During Sociopolitical and Environmental Change

Samantha Sabo, Dulce J. Jiménez, Alexandra Samarron Longorio, Omar Gomez, Melissa Liebert, Miriam Adriana Cuautle, Sara Shuman, Jill Guernsey de Zapien, Shefali Milczarek-Desai

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)213-223
Number of pages11
JournalProgress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action
Volume18
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 1 2024

Keywords

  • Community-based participatory research
  • Southwestern United States
  • community health research
  • community-based participatory research
  • immigrant health
  • occupational health
  • women’s health

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Health(social science)
  • Education
  • Sociology and Political Science

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