Simulating the Effects of Acculturation and Return Migration on the Maternal and Infant Health of Mexican Immigrants in the United States: A Research Note
Simulating the Effects of Acculturation and Return Migration on the Maternal and Infant Health of Mexican Immigrants in the United States: A Research Note
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10.1007/s13524-011-0017-4
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发表时间：
2011-05-01
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3.5
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Ceballos, Miguel
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作者：
Ceballos, Miguel
一项关于少数族裔健康的重要研究表明，尽管拉丁裔移民在母婴健康方面出乎意料地取得了良好的结果，但这种优势随着在美国居住时间的增加而恶化。本研究评估了解释这一悖论的两个相互竞争的假设的基本假设。第一种假设将这种恶化归因于移民在美国生活期间可能产生的文化适应和行为调整的负面影响，第二种假设将这种恶化归因于选择性返回移民的机制。基于这两个假设的假设，模拟了评估持续时间和出生结果之间关系的假设概率模型。研究结果与美国第一代墨西哥裔移民妇女母婴健康的实证研究结果进行了比较。分析提供的证据表明，持续时间和出生结果的曲线模式可以用文化适应和选择性回迁的共同影响来解释，其中前者在较长时间内影响健康状况，后者在较短时间内影响健康状况。
A significant body of research on minority health shows that although Latino immigrants experience unexpectedly favorable outcomes in maternal and infant health, this advantage deteriorates with increased time of residence in the United States. This study evaluates the underlying assumptions of two competing hypotheses that explain this paradox. The first hypothesis attributes this deterioration to possible negative effects of acculturation and behavioral adjustments made by immigrants while living in the United States, and the second hypothesis attributes this deterioration to the mechanism of selective return migration. Hypothetical probabilistic models are simulated for assessing the relationship between duration and birth outcomes based on the assumptions of these two hypotheses. The results are compared with the empirical research on the maternal and infant health of first-generation, Mexican-origin immigrant women in the United States. The analysis provides evidence that a curvilinear pattern of duration and birth outcomes can be explained by the joint effects of both acculturation and selective return migration in which the former affects health status over the longer durations, and the latter affects health status at shorter durations.