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Bloemraad I, Sheares A. Understanding Membership in a World of Global Migration: (How) Does Citizenship Matter? INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION REVIEW 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/imre.12354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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This article synthesizes the literature on citizenship and immigration to evaluate the heft of citizenship and theorize why it matters. We examine why citizenship laws vary cross-nationally and why some immigrants acquire citizenship while others do not. We consider how citizenship influences rights, identities, and participation and the mechanisms by which citizenship could influence lives. We consider frameworks, such as cultural and performative citizenship, that de-center legal status and the nation-state. Ultimately, we argue for a claims-making approach to citizenship, one that is a relational process of recognition, includes actors outside the individual/state dyad, and focuses on claims to legitimate membership.
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Perceived Status and National Belonging: The Case of Russian Speakers in Finland and Estonia. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 2018. [DOI: 10.5334/irsp.149] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Fenelon A, Chinn JJ, Anderson RN. A comprehensive analysis of the mortality experience of hispanic subgroups in the United States: Variation by age, country of origin, and nativity. SSM Popul Health 2017; 3:245-254. [PMID: 29349222 PMCID: PMC5769052 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2017.01.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2016] [Revised: 01/03/2017] [Accepted: 01/04/2017] [Indexed: 11/04/2022] Open
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Although those identifying as "Hispanic or Latino" experience lower adult mortality than the more socioeconomically advantaged non-Hispanic white population, the ethnic category Hispanic conceals variation by country of origin, nativity, age, and immigration experience. The current analysis examines adult mortality differentials among 12 Hispanic subgroups by region of origin and nativity, and non-Hispanic whites, adjusting for socioeconomic and demographic characteristics. We use the National Health Interview Survey Linked Mortality Files pooled 1990-2009 to obtain sufficient sample of each subgroup to calculate mortality estimates by sex and age group (25-64, 65+). Among adults aged 65 and over, all foreign born subgroups have an advantage over non-Hispanic whites, and many USB subgroups exhibit an advantage in the adjusted model. Foreign-born Dominicans, Central/South Americans, and other Hispanics exhibit consistent advantages across models for both men and women, aged 25-64 and 65 and over, and both unadjusted and adjusted for socioeconomic covariates. Both US-born and foreign-born Mexicans between ages 25 and 64 have mortality disadvantaged relative to non-Hispanic whites, while older Mexicans exhibit clear advantages. Our results complicate the traditional formulation of the Hispanic Paradox and cast doubt on the singularity of the mortality experience of those of Hispanic origin.
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- Andrew Fenelon
- Department of Health Services Administration, University of Maryland, ollege Park 3310 SPH Building 2242 Valley Dr, College Park, MD, 20740 USA
- Maryland Population Research Center, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
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- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, MD, USA
- Office of Minority Health, Department of Health and Human Services, USA
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- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, MD, USA
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Novak NL, Wang X, Clarke PJ, Hajat A, Needham BL, Sánchez BN, Rodriguez CJ, Seeman TE, Castro-Diehl C, Golden SH, Diez Roux AV. Diurnal salivary cortisol and nativity/duration of residence in Latinos: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2017; 85:179-189. [PMID: 28886460 PMCID: PMC5623131 DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2017.08.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2016] [Revised: 08/13/2017] [Accepted: 08/14/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Latino immigrants have lower prevalence of depression, obesity and cardiovascular disease than US-born Latinos when they are recently arrived in the US, but this health advantage erodes with increasing duration of US residence. Cumulative exposure to psychosocial stress and its physiological sequelae may mediate the relationship between nativity and duration of US residence and poor health. We used data from Latino cohort study participants ages 45-84 to examine cross-sectional (n=558) and longitudinal (n=248) associations between nativity and duration of US residence and features of the diurnal cortisol curve including: wake-up cortisol, cortisol awakening response (CAR, wake-up to 30min post-awakening), early decline (30min to 2h post-awakening) and late decline (2h post-awakening to bed time), wake-to-bed slope, and area under the curve (AUC). In cross-sectional analyses, US-born Latinos had higher wake-up cortisol than immigrants with fewer than 30 years of US residence. In the full sample, over 5 years the CAR and early decline became flatter and AUC became larger. Over 5 years, US-born Latinos had greater increases in wake-up cortisol and less pronounced flattening of the early diurnal cortisol decline than immigrants with fewer than 30 years of US residence. Immigrants with 30 or more years of US residence also had less pronounced flattening of the early decline relative to more recent immigrants, and also had a less pronounced increase in AUC. In sum, we saw limited cross-sectional evidence that US-born Latinos have more dysregulated cortisol than recently-arrived Latino immigrants, but over time US-born Latinos had slower progression of cortisol dysregulation.
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- Nicole L Novak
- Department of Epidemiology and Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, University of Michigan School of Public Health, 1415 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2029, USA.
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- Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, 3215 Market St., Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
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- Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, 426 S. Thompson St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
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- University of Washington School of Public Health Department of Epidemiology, 4225 Roosevelt Way NE, Suite 303, Seattle, WA 98105, USA.
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- Department of Epidemiology and Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, University of Michigan School of Public Health, 1415 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2029, USA.
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan School of Public Health, SPH II, Room 4164, 1415 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Cardiology, Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Blvd, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA.
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- Division of Geriatrics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 10945 Le Conte Avenue, Suite 2339, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
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- Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Mailman School of Public Health, 630 West 168th Street PH9 105, New York, NY 10032, USA.
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- Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes,and Metabolism, 1830 E. Monument Street, Suite 333, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
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- Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, 3215 Market St., Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
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Beltrán-Sánchez H, Palloni A, Riosmena F, Wong R. SES Gradients Among Mexicans in the United States and in Mexico: A New Twist to the Hispanic Paradox? Demography 2017; 53:1555-1581. [PMID: 27655408 DOI: 10.1007/s13524-016-0508-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Recent empirical findings have suggested the existence of a twist in the Hispanic paradox, in which Mexican and other Hispanic foreign-born migrants living in the United States experience shallower socioeconomic status (SES) health disparities than those in the U.S. POPULATION In this article, we seek to replicate this finding and test conjectures that could explain this new observed phenomenon using objective indicators of adult health by educational attainment in several groups: (1) Mexican-born individuals living in Mexico and in the United States, (2) U.S.-born Mexican Americans, and (3) non-Hispanic American whites. Our analytical strategy improves upon previous research on three fronts. First, we derive four hypotheses from a general framework that has also been used to explain the standard Hispanic paradox. Second, we study biomarkers rather than self-reported health and related conditions. Third, we use a binational data platform that includes both Mexicans living in Mexico (Mexican National Health and Nutrition Survey 2006) and Mexican migrants to the United States (NHANES 1999-2010). We find steep education gradients among Mexicans living in Mexico's urban areas in five of six biomarkers of metabolic syndrome (MetS) and in the overall MetS score. Mexican migrants living in the United States experience similar patterns to Mexicans living in Mexico in glucose and obesity biomarkers. These results are inconsistent with previous findings, suggesting that Mexican migrants in the United States experience significantly attenuated health gradients relative to the non-Hispanic white U.S. POPULATION Our empirical evidence also contradicts the idea that SES-health gradients in Mexico are shallower than those in the United States and could be invoked to explain shallower gradients among Mexicans living in the United States.
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- Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez
- Department of Community Health Sciences, Fielding School of Public Health, California Center for Population Research, University of California, Los Angeles, 650 Charles E. Young Drive South, Room 41-257 CHS, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1772, USA.
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- Center for Demography of Health and Aging, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- Population Program, Institute of Behavioral Science and Geography Department, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Sealy Center on Aging, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
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Riosmena F, Kuhn R, Jochem WC. Explaining the Immigrant Health Advantage: Self-selection and Protection in Health-Related Factors Among Five Major National-Origin Immigrant Groups in the United States. Demography 2017; 54:175-200. [PMID: 28092071 PMCID: PMC5316478 DOI: 10.1007/s13524-016-0542-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Despite being newcomers, immigrants often exhibit better health relative to native-born populations in industrialized societies. We extend prior efforts to identify whether self-selection and/or protection explain this advantage. We examine migrant height and smoking levels just prior to immigration to test for self-selection; and we analyze smoking behavior since immigration, controlling for self-selection, to assess protection. We study individuals aged 20-49 from five major national origins: India, China, the Philippines, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic. To assess self-selection, we compare migrants, interviewed in the National Health and Interview Surveys (NHIS), with nonmigrant peers in sending nations, interviewed in the World Health Surveys. To test for protection, we contrast migrants' changes in smoking since immigration with two counterfactuals: (1) rates that immigrants would have exhibited had they adopted the behavior of U.S.-born non-Hispanic whites in the NHIS (full "assimilation"); and (2) rates that migrants would have had if they had adopted the rates of nonmigrants in sending countries (no-migration scenario). We find statistically significant and substantial self-selection, particularly among men from both higher-skilled (Indians and Filipinos in height, Chinese in smoking) and lower-skilled (Mexican) undocumented pools. We also find significant and substantial protection in smoking among immigrant groups with stronger relative social capital (Mexicans and Dominicans).
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- Fernando Riosmena
- Population Program and Geography Department, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1440 15th Street, 483 UCB, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA.
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- UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Department of Community Health Sciences and the California Center for Population Research, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
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- Department of Geography and Environment, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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The specificity principle in acculturation science asserts that specific setting conditions of specific people at specific times moderate specific domains in acculturation by specific processes. Our understanding of acculturation depends critically on what is studied where, in whom, how, and when. This article defines, explains, and illustrates the specificity principle in acculturation science. Research hypotheses about acculturation can be more adequately tested, inconsistencies and discrepancies in the acculturation literature can be satisfactorily resolved, acculturation interventions can be tailored to be more successful, and acculturation policies can be brought to new levels of effectiveness if the specificity principle that governs acculturation science is more widely recognized.
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- Marc H Bornstein
- Child and Family Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health
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Rogers RG, Lawrence EM, Hummer RA, Tilstra AM. Racial/Ethnic Differences in Early-Life Mortality in the United States. BIODEMOGRAPHY AND SOCIAL BIOLOGY 2017; 63:189-205. [PMID: 29035105 PMCID: PMC5729754 DOI: 10.1080/19485565.2017.1281100] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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U.S. early-life (ages 1-24) deaths are tragic, far too common, and largely preventable. Yet demographers have focused scant attention on U.S. early-life mortality patterns, particularly as they vary across racial and ethnic groups. We employed the restricted-use 1999-2011 National Health Interview Survey-Linked Mortality Files and hazard models to examine racial/ethnic differences in early-life mortality. Our results reveal that these disparities are large, strongly related to differences in parental socioeconomic status, and expressed through different causes of death. Compared to non-Hispanic whites, non-Hispanic blacks experience 60 percent and Mexican Americans 32 percent higher risk of death over the follow-up period, with demographic controls. Our finding that Mexican Americans experience higher early-life mortality risk than non-Hispanic whites differs from much of the literature on adult mortality. We also show that these racial/ethnic differences attenuate with controls for family structure and especially with measures of socioeconomic status. For example, higher mortality risk among Mexican Americans than among non-Hispanic whites is no longer significant once we controlled for mother's education or family income. Our results strongly suggest that eliminating socioeconomic gaps across groups is the key to enhanced survival for children and adolescents in racial/ethnic minority groups.
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- Richard G Rogers
- a Department of Sociology and Population Program , IBS, University of Colorado Boulder , Boulder , Colorado , USA
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- b Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina , Chapel Hill , North Carolina , USA
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- c Department of Sociology and Carolina Population Center , University of Carolina , Chapel Hill , North Carolina , USA
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- a Department of Sociology and Population Program , IBS, University of Colorado Boulder , Boulder , Colorado , USA
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Bacon E, Riosmena F, Rogers RG. Does the Hispanic health advantage extend to better management of hypertension? The role of socioeconomic status, sociobehavioral factors, and health care access. BIODEMOGRAPHY AND SOCIAL BIOLOGY 2017; 63:262-277. [PMID: 29035106 PMCID: PMC5864248 DOI: 10.1080/19485565.2017.1353407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Hispanics in the United States (and foreign-born Hispanics in particular) have relatively favorable health given their lower socioeconomic status compared to, for example, non-Hispanic whites. This phenomenon is often called the Hispanic health paradox (HHP). This study examines whether the previously documented HHP in hypertension prevalence extends to its management using clinical and self-reported measures from the 2007-2012 National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys. Multivariate models adjusting for demographic, socioeconomic, and sociobehavioral characteristics show an advantage among foreign-born Mexicans in hypertension prevalence relative to non-Hispanic whites (adjusted OR = 0.85). However, compared to non-Hispanic whites, foreign-born Mexicans were 38% less likely to receive treatment recommendations and, when advised to undergo treatment, were 60% less likely to adhere to treatment. Adjusting for health care access and utilization dramatically reduces disparities in hypertension control between foreign-born Mexicans and non-Hispanic whites, suggesting that insufficient systematic access to and use of quality health care erodes the HHP and contributes to the deterioration of health throughout the immigrant experience. Without appropriate interventions, particularly in health care access and utilization, poorer hypertension management among foreign-born Mexicans may negatively affect the Hispanic health profile, increase risk of cardiovascular disease-related mortality, and erode the Hispanic health advantage in the future.
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- Emily Bacon
- a Department of Sociology and Population Program , Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado Boulder , Boulder , Colorado , USA
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- b Department of Geography and Population Program , Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado Boulder , Boulder , Colorado , USA
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- a Department of Sociology and Population Program , Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado Boulder , Boulder , Colorado , USA
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Ambulatory disability among immigrants from China, India, and Mexico: Exploration of heterogeneity in ‘immigrant advantage’. MIGRATION STUDIES 2016. [DOI: 10.1093/migration/mnw021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022]
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Lawrence E, Mollborn S, Riosmena F. Early Childhood Disadvantage for Sons of Mexican Immigrants: Body Mass Index Across Ages 2-5. Am J Health Promot 2016; 30:545-53. [PMID: 26305614 PMCID: PMC4767705 DOI: 10.4278/ajhp.140725-quan-366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2014] [Accepted: 02/06/2015] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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PURPOSE To distinguish the origins of higher weight status and determine when and why intra- and interracial/ethnic disparities emerge. DESIGN The study used a longitudinal analysis of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (ECLS-B). SETTING The study was conducted in the United States. SUBJECTS Participants were children of non-Hispanic white mothers and children of U.S.- and foreign-born mothers of Mexican origin from a nationally representative sample of children born in the year 2001 (N ≈ 3700). MEASURES The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention growth charts determined sex- and age-specific weight status. Covariates were obtained from birth certificate records and parent interviews. ANALYSIS Frequencies, growth curve trajectories, and ordinary least squares regression examined body mass index (BMI) and obesity across survey waves. RESULTS Compared to their peers with non-Hispanic white mothers, children of Mexican-heritage mothers have higher average BMI and greater rates of obesity. The BMI of boys with Mexican-born mothers is higher relative to whites and children of U.S.-born Mexican mothers across early childhood, increasing sharply at about age 4.5 years. This divergence is driven by increases in the BMI of boys, as girls do not show the same growth. A number of measures, including descriptors of children's nutritional intake, lifestyle factors, and acculturation, do not explain the increased obesity rates among sons of Mexican mothers. CONCLUSION Despite favorable perinatal health and weight, Mexican-American sons of foreign-born mothers show disadvantages in BMI that emerge close to the start of kindergarten.
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- Elizabeth Lawrence
- Institute of Behavioral Science and Department of Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado
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- Institute of Behavioral Science and Department of Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado
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- Institute of Behavioral Science and Department of Geography, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado
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Fenelon A. Rethinking the Hispanic Paradox: The Mortality Experience of Mexican Immigrants in Traditional Gateways and New Destinations. INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION REVIEW 2016; 51:567-599. [PMID: 33110281 DOI: 10.1111/imre.12263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Mexican immigrants enjoy a substantial mortality advantage over non-Hispanic whites in the US, although their health declines with greater duration of residence. Many previous studies have suggested this advantage reflects higher levels of social support among Mexicans in enclave communities with high co-ethnic density. As the Mexican-origin population in the US has grown, it has expanded outside traditional gateway cities in California and Texas to new destinations throughout the US, and it has become increasingly important to understand how settlement in new destinations impacts the health of Mexican immigrants. This study examines the mortality outcomes of Mexican immigrants in Traditional Gateways versus New and Minor Destinations in the US. Using a nationally-representative survey with mortality follow-up the analysis finds that Mexican immigrants in new and minor destinations have a significant survival advantage over their counterparts in traditional gateways. This advantage largely reflects the mortality benefits of living in communities with smaller and less-established Mexicans immigrant communities, a finding that runs in contrast to prior work on the protective effects of immigrant enclaves. The results suggest that future research must reevaluate the relationship between neighborhood ethnic composition, social support, and immigrant health.
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- Andrew Fenelon
- National Center for Health Statistics, 3311 Toledo Road, Hyattsville, MD 20782
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Lariscy JT, Nau C, Firebaugh G, Hummer RA. Hispanic-White Differences in Lifespan Variability in the United States. Demography 2016; 53:215-39. [PMID: 26682740 PMCID: PMC4771518 DOI: 10.1007/s13524-015-0450-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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This study is the first to investigate whether and, if so, why Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites in the United States differ in the variability of their lifespans. Although Hispanics enjoy higher life expectancy than whites, very little is known about how lifespan variability-and thus uncertainty about length of life-differs by race/ethnicity. We use 2010 U.S. National Vital Statistics System data to calculate lifespan variance at ages 10+ for Hispanics and whites, and then decompose the Hispanic-white variance difference into cause-specific spread, allocation, and timing effects. In addition to their higher life expectancy relative to whites, Hispanics also exhibit 7 % lower lifespan variability, with a larger gap among women than men. Differences in cause-specific incidence (allocation effects) explain nearly two-thirds of Hispanics' lower lifespan variability, mainly because of the higher mortality from suicide, accidental poisoning, and lung cancer among whites. Most of the remaining Hispanic-white variance difference is due to greater age dispersion (spread effects) in mortality from heart disease and residual causes among whites than Hispanics. Thus, the Hispanic paradox-that a socioeconomically disadvantaged population (Hispanics) enjoys a mortality advantage over a socioeconomically advantaged population (whites)-pertains to lifespan variability as well as to life expectancy. Efforts to reduce U.S. lifespan variability and simultaneously increase life expectancy, especially for whites, should target premature, young adult causes of death-in particular, suicide, accidental poisoning, and homicide. We conclude by discussing how the analysis of Hispanic-white differences in lifespan variability contributes to our understanding of the Hispanic paradox.
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- Joseph T Lariscy
- Department of Sociology, University of Memphis, 223 Clement Hall, Memphis, TN, 38152, USA.
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- The Johns Hopkins Global Obesity Prevention Center, Bloomberg School of Public Health, W3508, 615 Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA
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- Population Research Institute and Department of Sociology and Criminology, The Pennsylvania State University, 902 Oswald Tower, University Park, PA, 16802, USA
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- Carolina Population Center and Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 206 West Franklin Street, Room 211, Chapel Hill, NC, 27516, USA
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