International Migration Review
Volume 49, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 443-478

Negative acculturation and nothing more? cumulative disadvantage and mortality during the immigrant adaptation process among Latinos in the United States (Review)

Riosmena F. , Everett B.G. , Rogers R.G. , Dennis J.A.
  • a University of Colorado, Boulder, United States
  • b University of Illinois, Chicago, United States
  • c University of Colorado, Boulder, United States
  • d University of Texas, Permian Basin, United States

Abstract

Foreign- and U.S.-born Hispanic health deteriorates with increasing exposure and acculturation to mainstream U.S. society. Because these associations are robust to (static) socioeconomic controls, negative acculturation has become their primary explanation. This overemphasis, however, has neglected important alternative structural explanations. Examining Hispanic mortality using the 1998-2006 U.S. National Health Interview Survey-Linked Mortality File according to nativity, immigrant adaptation measures, and health behaviors, this study presents indirect but compelling evidence that suggests negative acculturation is not the only or main explanation for this deterioration. © 2014 by the Center for Migration Studies of New York. All rights reserved.

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Acculturation immigrant adaptive management Latino people United States mortality public health health survey
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DOI: 10.1111/imre.12102
ISSN: 01979183
Cited by: 34
Original Language: English