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Title: (Un)Healthy Immigrant Citizens: Naturalization and Functional Limitations Over the Incorporation Lifecourse

Citation Type: Conference Paper

Publication Year: 2012

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Abstract: This research seeks to shed light on the relationship between a key aspect of incorporation, immigrant naturalization, and a key health-related measure, namely having a functional limitation. Focusing on U.S. immigrants aged 50 and over, it examines specifically how incorporation and selection dynamics variously influence the salience of naturalization atalternative points in the incorporation lifecourse. Older immigrants constitute an advantageous group to study because they are more subject to health-related functional limitations and have greater need for healthcare access naturalization can provide. We find that among immigrantswho come after age 50, those who naturalize are more likely to report functional limitations(worse health) than those who do not naturalize, whereas the opposite is true for those who arrived in the country as children or young adults. These results support the idea that position inthe incorporation lifecourse influences the salience of alternative kinds of naturalization benefits for immigrants.

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Authors: Bean, Frank D.; Gubernskaya, Zoya; Van Hook, Jennifer

Conference Name: Population Association of America

Publisher Location: San Francisco, CA

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration, Other

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