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Migrant health convergence and the role of material deprivation

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Date
12/04/2019
Author
Loi, Silvia
Hale, Jo Mhairi
Keywords
Immigration
Migrant health
Healthy immigrant effect
Health outcomes
Material deprivation
G Geography (General)
HM Sociology
H Social Sciences (General)
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BACKGROUND Cross–national research shows that although immigrants initially have better health than their native–born counterparts, their health deteriorates over time in their destination countries, converging to natives’ health (health convergence). Explanations include acculturation to negative health behaviours, exposure to low socioeconomic status, and social exclusion. OBJECTIVE This study is the first to examine how material deprivation, a measure of relative disadvantage that includes elements of SES and social exclusion, interacts with duration of stay to affect immigrants’ health convergence. METHODS Using data from Italy (2009), we assess the association between duration of stay and three health outcomes, and we estimate interaction effects of duration of stay with material deprivation. RESULTS We find immigrants’ duration of stay is negatively associated with self–rated health, chronic morbidities, and activity limitations. Immigrants’ health converges to natives’, net of controls. Convergence is most dramatic for self–rated health, but the pattern is also reflected in chronic morbidity and activity limitations. The health of immigrants who live in conditions of material deprivation is more similar to natives’ health at shorter durations of stay, compared to their not–deprived counterparts. CONTRIBUTION The paper contributes to a better understanding of the role of social exclusion – measured as material deprivation – on the immigrant–native health convergence process. It is the first to assess the interaction of material conditions to duration of stay in a host country.
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Loi , S & Hale , J M 2019 , ' Migrant health convergence and the role of material deprivation ' , Demographic Research , vol. 40 , 32 , pp. 933-962 . https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2019.40.32
Publication
Demographic Research
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2019.40.32
ISSN
1435-9871
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2019 Silvia Loi & Jo Mhairi Hale. This open-access work is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Germany (CC BY 3.0 DE), which permits use, reproduction, and distribution in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are given credit. See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/de/legalcode.
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This work is financially supported by the Max Planck Society within the framework of the research initiative “The Challenges of Migration, Integration and Exclusion” (WiMi).
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/17511

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