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Title: (Un)Healthy Immigrant Citizens: Naturalization, Incorporation Experiences and Health in Older Age
Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Year: 2013
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Abstract: This research argues that immigrants’ political, social and economic incorporation experiences, which are embedded in individual life-course trajectories and heavily influenced by governmental policies, play an important role in producing diverse health outcomes among the older foreign-born in the U.S. Specifically, using data from the 2008-2010 American Community Survey, this research demonstrates how naturalization, a key indicator of social and political inclusion, is related to functional health in midlife and old age. Among those foreign-born who immigrated as children and young adults, naturalized citizens have better health in old age compared to non-citizens. However, among those older foreign-born who immigrated in middle and old age, naturalized citizens have worse health compared to non-citizens. Consistent with the idea of a positive effect of socio-economic incorporation on health, these findings suggest . . .
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Authors: Gubernskaya, Zoya
Institution: University of California, Irvine
Department: Sociology
Advisor: Judith K. Treas
Degree: PhD
Publisher Location: Irvine
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS Health Surveys - NHIS
Topics: Health, Other, Population Health and Health Systems
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