The collection that I have created is focused around immigrant women's health and wellness issues that include access to healthcare, access to protective resources and safe community spaces, and adequate and safe pregnancy resources and care. Oftentimes when talking about the health and safety of immigrants and refugees people tend to leave out sexual, reproductive, psychosocial, and female health as part of essential safety aspects. In SOWJ 2150 Immigrants and their Communities we watched the film "Maid in America," a film discussing the prevalence of female immigrants working as household maids, the film highlighted issues of poverty, community, language barriers, and education in many women's lives. One thing that was discussed was the low wages that women were earning and how it kept them in the same profession for long periods of time and often made them feel like they could not escape their poverty while also sending money back home or trying to provide for their own families. The things from this film reflect what this collection of articles shows: many immigrant women are not getting the resources they need because the ones that the US provides are inaccessible to them or women will avoid out of fear of deportation. 

 The first article in the collection titled, "Can Cell Phones Improve Latinas' Health" by Dani McClain discusses a texting based solution to help educate women about resources in Fresno County, California which provide lower cost healthcare, safe spaces and uplifting messages, or information about healthcare facilities that do not ask for a social security number. I feel that the texting based solution to help educate immigrants is effective because it considers the needs of the community because the texts do not require wireless internet or installing applications, therefore women can receive help, information, and access to this resource and community of women by only needing the most basic phone (which most people have). The group behind this named "Únete Latina" has created a great way to provide information as well as a welcoming community of women that can aid female immigrants in many situations. I believe that this solution would be good for almost any location, meaning both cities and rural communities because it does not require the use of internet or fancy mobile devices since it is texting based. The only issue that could arise is it's use in rural communities because there will be less resources for women's health due to the smaller towns, as well as these communities do not usually have a good context of reception for immigrants, because they not as diverse as urban areas and the predominantly white populations often oppose or are hostile to immigrants and refugees (like the Lewiston, Maine example discussed in class). This solution is also efficient because texts can be sent in multiple languages (as noted they are often sent in Spanish) which makes this resource accessible to more women.

 The second article in the collection titled, "In a Climate of Fear, HIV Services for Latinx Women Give Strength to Immigrant Communities" by Giuliani Alvarenga discusses the work by a woman named Thelma Garcia and her work in creating the East Los Angeles Women's Center (ELAWC) to provide health services, a safe community, and support for female immigrants who have been diagnosed with HIV and other illnesses. The article notes that many immigrant women need assistance and often don't know where to seek help or don’t know how to seek help and her organization aims to help women who need assistance or are trapped in abusive relationships that perpetuate HIV. I feel that this is a good solution for women, and after reading this I felt hopeful but still saddened because of the backwards progress that the US has taken towards improving women's health as a result of the Trump administration and the expansion of the Public Charge laws. This solution could work in both urban and rural communities because these types of women's health centers give safer spaces to women. I think that in rural communities the context of reception could face opposition and lack of funding as many might not recognize the need because of racism, as often portrayed in smaller cities like Lewiston Maine or the video we watched about immigrants in Greenbay Wisconsin. This specific center in East Los Angeles is effective because they have healthcare workers that are multi-lingual which increases the amount of people that they can assist.

The third article in the collection titled, "The Midwives Helping Women on the US-Mexico Boarder" by Claudia Bellante discusses the issues of giving birth in Mexico for refugees awaiting to be granted temporary protected status visas or other visas to the US as well as those women living in the US who do not have access to healthcare services. She interviewed two women who have created an organization called "Parteras Fronterizas," which offers midwife services to pregnant women in these areas because of obstetric violence against pregnant women in both public and private hospitals in Mexico. The article notes that about "45 out of every 100 women" in Mexico undergo cesarean section births, and that rate is so high oftentimes because hospitals do them to make extra money, even when the procedure was not necessary. The article also notes that those women who are living and working in the US on temporary protected visas can potentially not make enough money to afford adequate health services during their pregnancy. Learning about this violence against women as well as the article's discussion on the limitations of accessible healthcare in the US, is upsetting and makes this solution seem like a viable option for women, even if home births come with complications that require hospital care. This solution could work in more communities around the US other than just at the boarder because many women need access to affordable and safe healthcare options. I think that opposition for these "Frontier Midwives" would be low because there are a good amount of the US' non-immigrant population that uses midwives during their pregnancy. The only possible barrier to this solution would be the lack of awareness of these programs for women, or concern about the safety of home births. Perhaps in ethnic enclaves would this solution thrive because of word of mouth and closeness of the communities.