Jennifer Van Hook
Jennifer Van Hook is Professor of Sociology and Demography and Research Associate of the Population Research Institute at The Pennsylvania State University. She conducts demographic research on the settlement and incorporation patterns of U.S. immigrants, with one strand of her work focusing on estimates of the size and composition of the unauthorized foreign-born population. Her work also focuses on the social, economic, and health assimilation of immigrants and their descendants.
Dr. Van Hook received her PhD in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin, and has held positions at the Urban Institute and Bowling Green State University before joining the faculty at Penn State.
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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.
Unauthorized Migrants Living in the United States: A Mid-Decade Portrait
Unauthorized immigrants in the United States were estimated to number 10.3 million in 2004.
Poverty Grows Among Children of Immigrants in U.S.
More than 21 percent of children of immigrants in the United States were in poverty in 2000, well above the native rate.