Explanations for immigrant health outcomes often invoke culture through the use of the
concept of acculturation. The over reliance on cultural explanations for immigrant health …

Immigrant health research has often noted an “immigrant health paradox”, the observation
that immigrants are “healthier” compared to their native-born peers of similar demographic …

Scholarship on immigrant health has steadily increased over the past two decades. This line
of inquiry is often approached as a “specialty” topic involving a discrete de-contextualized …

While health inequalities related to race/ethnicity, nativity, and age are well documented, it
remains unclear how these axes of stratification combine to shape health trajectories …

Immigration has been historically and contemporarily racialized in the United States.
Although each immigrant group has unique histories, current patterns, and specific …

Evidence suggests that, despite their lower socio-economic status, certain health outcomes
are better for first-generation Mexican immigrants than their US-born counterparts. Socio …

There is renewed concern that in spite of overall improvements in health racial and ethnic
disparities in health persist and in some cases may even have expanded. Ethnic health …

Although immigration and immigrant populations have become increasingly important foci in
public health research and practice, a social determinants of health approach has seldom …

With rising rates of immigration around the globe we have seen increased interest in the
socioeconomic situation of immigrants as well as their health status and health care needs …

Anti-immigrant rhetoric and political actions gained prominence and public support before,
during, and after the 2016 presidential election. This anti-immigrant political environment …