Latino racism targets suffer sleep loss, added depression

“When Ricardo Negrete immigrated to Utah at age 15, he felt apart from the other kids at his new school.

“Because I didn’t speak the language, I felt like I didn’t belong,” said Negrete, 25, now a case worker for the Utah Farmworker Program. “Looking back, I didn’t think it was depression or anything, but I felt sad. It was just something that weighed on my mind.”

A Brigham Young University researcher says those kinds of experiences, plus being the target, real or perceived, of racism, often leads to sleep difficulties or depression in Latino immigrants,. …”

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