Kimbro 2009) and exposure to racial discrimination and other negative environmental experiences ( Carrasquillo et al.

For about two years, if you met me at a party and were discernibly of foreign birth, you ran a strong risk of getting The Question. However, YSI group differences could also reflect age effects (given that the mean age at survey increases from 37. In the hypothetical scenarios, the immigrants without eligible mortality records are set to be equally likely (15%), twice as likely (30%), and greater than three times as likely (50%) than natives to have died by 2011. Journalist Claudia Kolker has learned that a wide variety of cherished customs are brought to the United States by immigrant groups, often adapted to American life by the second generation in a distinctive blending of old and new.First, healthier individuals are more likely to self-select into migration ( Akresh and Frank 2008; Bosdriesz et al. She chronicles the quests of young Indian Americans to find spouses with the close guidance of their parents, revealing the benefits of “assisted marriage,” an American adaptation of arranged marriage. Today, more than 37 million immigrants live in this country, an estimated 11 million of those without authorization.

But when he visited my grandmother, Concepción, at school, she felt ashamed of his farmer’s clothes and leather sandals.To account for differences in characteristics between native-born and foreign-born respondents, we introduce gender, age at the survey, education, poverty status, and marital status in the models. This survival advantage amplified with each elapsed year, although odds of death increased with time for both natives and immigrants.

g., age 50), immigrants who migrated during childhood or adolescence have worse health than those who migrated in young adulthood or later life ( Choi 2012; Gubernskaya 2015). This phenomenon, often referred to as unhealthy assimilation ( Antecol and Bedard 2006), suggests that health protection for immigrants is only short term but that assimilation to natives' unhealthy diet and behaviors (e. But Hen Le, a fifty-seven-year-old Vietnamese refugee living in Houston, showed me that sometimes the un-American way can bring us what we want most. I was newly impressed by the parents of a Vietnamese boy who drove an hour to my house so I could tutor him—although he already was an honor student. Thus, we construct a third variable differentiating immigrants by race/ethnicity, with five categories: natives, non-Hispanic White immigrants, non-Hispanic Black immigrants, non-Hispanic Asian immigrants, and Hispanic immigrants.In Mexico, the youngest daughter traditionally never marries and spends her life keeping house for her parents, my mom offered before I (the youngest daughter) cleared that point up. This is not the case for other immigrant groups, whose survival advantages were amplified even with ratios of hazard probabilities. Conceptually, although immigrants face an initial disadvantage in health care access ( Laroche 2000; Leclere et al. Given the difficulties cross-sectional analyses face, a handful of studies have started using longitudinal data that follow immigrants over time ( Choi 2012; Wakabayashi 2010).

F ROM THE CORNER of a banquet table strewn with empty dishes, I watched large-denomination bills change hands.Thus, to the extent mortality is tied to health, this study provides unequivocal evidence that the health protection of immigrant status is stable and long-lasting, with no sign of waning after two decades. Relatively few cross-sectional studies have recognized that the duration-of-residence effect can also be confounded with the age-of-arrival effect. On a wall-mounted TV screen, a Vietnamese youth and a little girl in traditional clothes were scrambling up a mountain away from pursuers. Our results suggest that immigrants' initially greater health endowment and better health behaviors, along with increased economic assimilation and improved access to health care with time, ultimately offset any unhealthy assimilation and amplify their survival advantage over natives in the long run. The predicted hazard probabilities calculated from models in Table 5 (not presented here) reveal similar patterns.