Negative Acculturation and Nothing More? Cumulative Disadvantage and Mortality during the Immigrant Adaptation Process among Latinos in the United States2. Issue 2 (20th May 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Riosmena, Fernando; Everett, Bethany G.; Rogers, Richard G.; Dennis, Jeff A.
• Is Part Of: International migration review. Volume 49:Issue 2(2015:Summer)
• Page Start: 443
• Page End: 478
• Publication Date: 2014-05-20
• Subjects: Emigration and immigration -- Periodicals; 325.05
• DOI: 10.1111/imre.12102
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0197-9183

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main" id="imre12102-abs-0001"> <title> <x xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <p>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.</p> </abstract>