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Black and Immigrant: Exploring the Effects of Ethnicity and Foreign-Born Status on Infant Health
Black immigrant mothers have better birth outcomes than U.S.-born Black women but worse outcomes than nearly all other immigrant groups. The gap remains unexplained.
Parenting Behavior, Health, and Cognitive Development among Children in Black Immigrant Families: Comparing the United States and the United Kingdom
Children in Black immigrant families show health advantages and developmental disadvantages, defying expectations based on differing UK and U.S. policy contexts.
Asian Labour Migrants and Health: Exploring Policy Routes
Asian labor migrants face growing health vulnerabilities at every stage of migration, requiring cross-border, multisectoral responses from government.
Changing Demography and Circumstances for Young Black Children in African and Caribbean Immigrant Families
Children of Black immigrants rank in the middle of well-being indicators, with outcomes shaped sharply by parental origin, English proficiency, and refugee status.
Protection through Integration: The Mexican Government's Efforts to Aid Migrants in the United States
Mexico increasingly seeks to protect its migrants in the United States through consular services, programs, and closer ties to communities abroad.
Immigrants and Health Care Reform: What's Really at Stake?
Uninsured immigrants use emergency care at low rates; excluding them from U.S. health reform raises safety net costs while adding minimally to overall costs if they are included.
Moving to the Land of Milk and Cookies: Obesity among the Children of Immigrants
Among children of immigrants in the United States, the newest arrivals face the greatest obesity risk.
Migration and the Economic Downturn: What to Expect in the European Union
EU migration is likely to slow during recessions, though continue as long as opportunity gaps between origin and destination countries persist.
Los Angeles on the Leading Edge: Immigrant Integration Indicators and their Policy Implications
Immigrants in Los Angeles face persistent labor market, language, and health-care integration gaps that call for more proactive policy across the public and private sectors.