Food insecurity as an underexplored pathway linking ethnic enclave contexts and anxiety among Dominicans in the United States (opens in new tab)

IntroductionMigration shapes access to food environments and practices, with implications for both nutritional and mental health. Although neighborhood ethnic concentration has been linked to mental health among Latino populations, the findings remain inconsistent, and the mechanisms are not well understood. Food insecurity, a common experience among immigrant households, may represent a key psychosocial pathway linking the neighborhood context to anxiety. Caribbean Latino populations, includ...