SSM - Population Health
Volume 2, 2016, Pages 141-148

A life-course perspective on legal status stratification and health (Review) (Open Access)

Torres J.M. , Young M.E.D.*
  • a RWJF Health and Society Scholars Program, University of California, San Francisco and University of California, Berkeley and UCSF Center for Health and Community, 3333 California Street, Suite 465, San Francisco, CA 94118, United States
  • b Department of Community Health Sciences, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, 650 Charles E. Young Drive South, 36-071 CHS, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772, United States

Abstract

Scholars have expressed growing interest in the relationship between legal status stratification and health. Nevertheless, the extant research often lacks theoretical underpinnings. We propose the life-course perspective as a theoretical lens with which to understand relationships between legal status stratification and health outcomes. In particular, the life-course perspective guides researchers[U+05F3] attention to historical contexts that have produced differential social, political, and economic outcomes for immigrants based on legal status, and to the potentially long-term and intergenerational relationships between legal status stratification and health. We review four key dimensions of the life-course perspective and make recommendations for future directions in public health research on legal status and health. © 2016 The Authors.

Author Keywords

Life-course perspective Immigrant health Intergenerational effects Legal status stratification

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84962319046&doi=10.1016%2fj.ssmph.2016.02.011&partnerID=40&md5=ea8a4dbd4690145d7aafc7516841dc1f
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2016.02.011
ISSN: 23528273
Cited by: 12
Original Language: English