{"product_id":"immigration-and-health-9781787430624","title":"Immigration and Health","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe current politicized climate around immigration includes heated debate over the potential costs of continued immigration for the health and well-being of the nation. Amid the controversy one pattern that has escaped significant notice is that immigrants today are healthier than the native-born. Even more striking is that these positive health profiles are found among those immigrants who tend to have less education and lower income, factors that population health researchers have typically associated with poor health. A final feature of contemporary immigrant health is evidence of a gradual loss of the immigrant health advantage with time in the U.S. and across generations.  \u003cbr\u003e  These paradoxical patterns lie at the center of Volume 19 of Advances in Medical Sociology. Too often, immigrant health is set apart and treated as a specialty research area rather than as a topic that is central to understanding such core sociological concepts as stratification and inequality. The contributors in this volume all leverage a population health perspective to help unravel the patterns and paradoxes of immigrant health, and in doing so, help to clarify more broadly how health dis-parities emerge and persist in the contemporary U.S.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBelieving that health and illness provide a window into how a social structure operates, sociologists offer evidence-based perspectives on the health of immigrants and their descendants. In sections on cross-national perspectives, problemitizing acculturation, and a structural approach, they address such topics as reconsidering the relationship between age at migration and health behaviors among US immigrants: the modifying role of continued cross-border ties, intergenerational health transmission among Mexican Americans: further evidence of the protective effect of Spanish-language utilization, the influence of acculturation and weight-related behaviors on body mass index among Asian American ethnic subgroups, the immigrant health differential in the context of racial and ethnic disparities: the case of diabetes, and immigrant exclusion and inclusion: the importance of citizenship for insurance coverage before and after the Affordable Care Act. -- Annotation ©2019 * (protoview.com) *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Advancing the Field of Immigration and Health; \u003ci\u003eReanne Frank, Erick Axxe, Coralia Balasca, Melissa Rodriguez \u003c\/i\u003ePart 1: Cross-National Perspectives  1. Reconsidering the Relationship between Age at Migration and Health Behavior among US Immigrants: The Modifying Role of Continued Contact with Countries of Origin; \u003ci\u003eJacqueline Torres, Annie Ro, May Sudhinaraset\u003c\/i\u003e 2. Structure, Culture, and HIV\/STI Vulnerabilities among Migrant Women in Russia; \u003ci\u003eVictor Agadijanian and Natalia Zotova \u003c\/i\u003e Part 2: Problematizing Acculturation  3. Socioeconomic Status and Acculturation: Why Mexican-Americans are Heavier than Mexican Immigrants and Whites; \u003ci\u003eMichelle Frisco, Molly Martin, Jennifer Van Hook \u003c\/i\u003e 4. Intergenerational Health Transmission among Mexican-Americans: Further Evidence of the Protective Effect of Spanish-Language Utilization; \u003ci\u003eBrian K. Finch \u003c\/i\u003e  5. Talking about Teeth: Egocentric Networks and Oral Health Outcomes in a Mexican-American Immigrant Community; \u003ci\u003eErin Pullen, Brea Perry Gerardo Maupome\u003c\/i\u003e   6. The Influence of Acculturation and Weight-Related Behaviors on Body Mass Index among Asian American Ethnic Subgroups; \u003ci\u003eChih-Chien Huang \u003c\/i\u003e  Part 3: Structural Approach  7. The Immigrant Health Differential in the Context of Racial and Ethnic Disparities: The Case of Diabetes; \u003ci\u003eMichal Engelman and Leafia Zi Ye  \u003c\/i\u003e 8. The Effects of Perceived Discrimination on Immigrant and Refugee Physical and Mental Health; \u003ci\u003eMagdalena Szaflarski and Shawn Bauldry  \u003c\/i\u003e 9. 'They See Us Like Trash': How Mexican Illegality Stigma Affects the Phychological Well-Being of Undocumented and U.S.-born Young Adults of Mexican Descent; \u003ci\u003eDeisy Del Real\u003c\/i\u003e 10. Immigrant Exclusion and Inclusion: The Importance of Citizenship for Insurance Coverage Before and After the Affordable Care Act; \u003ci\u003eErin Ice  \u003c\/i\u003e 11. Precarious Incorporation: The Role of Work in Migrant Health and Longevity; \u003ci\u003eNathan Dollar  \u003c\/i\u003e 12. Inflammation among Children: Evidence of an Immigrant Advantage?; \u003ci\u003eKammi Schmeer \u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Emerald Publishing Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49412421943639,"sku":"9781787430624","price":80.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/immigration-and-health-9781787430624","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}