Communities are important health determinants for resettled refugees. The risk for lead poisoning among African refugee children who resettle in the United States remains elevated, despite the gradual decrease in childhood lead poisoning in this country. We argue that the refugee resettlement process is a restricted system with a limited infrastructure that inadvertently contributes to the disproportionate burden of lead poisoning cases experienced by resettled African refugee children. We present childhood lead poisoning in a resettled African refugee population as a case study of environmental inequality. We propose recommendations for practitioners to reduce and ultimately eliminate this unintended environmental inequality. © 2012 Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

refugee resettlement agency environmental inequality African refugees childhood lead poisoning refugee resettlement

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