Doctoral Dissertation Research: Migrant Health Status in Migration Stream

博士论文研究：移民流中的移民健康状况

• 批准号: 0902484
• 负责人: Paula Fomby
• 金额: $ 0.75万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Denver-Downtown Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-04-01 至 2011-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0902484&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Migrant; Health

Mexican immigrants who are new to the United States show remarkably high levels of health. It has been hypothesized that the good health status of migrants is the result of a selection process through which those who are better off tend to move. By studying a well-defined migration stream, I will determine if men who migrate to this country are actually healthier than their counterparts who stayed in Mexico and test two different theories that might explain why healthier people migrate. This study draws upon quantitative and qualitative data and will be conducted in a male-only agricultural migration stream from rural communities in central Mexico to the state of Colorado in the US. The Co-PI will conduct semi-structured interviews with migrants, return-migrants, migrant recruiters and contractors to understand the context of migration decision-making and the role that health status might have on this decision. The quantitative data will be collected through a cross-sectional survey that includes selected health status indicators, migrant network characteristics, and migration decision-making factors of Mexican adult male migrants (in the US) and their counterparts who stay in their communities of origin (in Mexico). The results of this dissertation will add to our knowledge of the health of immigrants when they arrive and will also expand our understanding of social processes that could be useful to study immigrant adaption. The contributions of this study will be disseminated to the scientific community at several national conferences both in Mexico and the US, as well as through scientific journal articles. This research project will promote the participation of students in Mexico and the US in a binational research experience.

新到美国的墨西哥移民表现出非常高的健康水平。据推测，移民的良好健康状况是一个选择过程的结果，在这个过程中，条件较好的人倾向于迁移。通过研究一个定义明确的移民流，我将确定移民到这个国家的男性是否真的比留在墨西哥的男性更健康，并检验两种不同的理论，这两种理论可能解释为什么更健康的人会移民。本研究利用定量和定性数据，并将在从墨西哥中部农村社区到美国科罗拉多州的男性农业移民流中进行。共同调查团将与移徙者、返回移徙者、移徙者招聘人员和承包商进行半结构化访谈，以了解移徙决策的背景以及健康状况可能对这一决定产生的作用。定量数据将通过横断面调查收集，其中包括选定的健康状况指标、移民网络特征和墨西哥成年男性移民（在美国）及其留在原籍社区（在墨西哥）的同行的移民决策因素。本论文的结果将增加我们对移民抵达时健康状况的了解，并将扩大我们对社会过程的理解，这可能有助于研究移民适应。这项研究的成果将在墨西哥和美国的几个国家会议上以及通过科学期刊文章向科学界传播。该研究项目将促进墨西哥和美国学生在两国研究经验的参与。