Canada admits between more than 200,000 immigrants every year. National policy
emphasizes rigorous selection to ensure that Canada admits healthy immigrants. However …

The authors reviewed literature on the health of voluntary migrants to Western societies and
factors affecting their health. Health indicators include mortality rates and life expectancy …

This revised and updated fifth edition of Immigrant America: A Portrait provides a
comprehensive and current overview of immigration to the United States, including its …

Increasingly, social scientists are turning to childhood to gain a better understanding of the
fundamental social causes of adult mortality. However, evidence of the link between …

The process of immigrant assimilation is typically and uncritically conceived as one of linear
progress–becoming similar to the dominant group in the place of destination is presumed to …

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 …

Background The Mexican American Prevalence and Services Survey presents lifetime
prevalence rates for 12DSM-III-Rpsychiatric disorders in a sample of 3012 adults of Mexican …

Family unity has and continues to be the cornerstone of immigration policy for the United
States. A point of debate about generous family unity policies is a concern that family …

The simplicity of using one data set in addressing the relationship of single variables to
mortality distinguishes Living and Dying in the USA from other recent investigations of …

Objectives. This article investigates whether foreign-born status confers a protective effect
against low birth weight (LBW) and whether this protective effect varies across racial/ethnic …