Perhaps non-White immigrants, who tend to be from less developed countries, needed to overcome more obstacles to immigrate than White immigrants. A better way to identify the duration of residence effect is by comparing mortality risk among immigrants relative to the native-born over elapsed time. Thus, to the extent mortality is tied to health, this study provides unequivocal evidence that the health protection of immigrant status is stable and long-lasting, with no sign of waning after two decades. To add evidence on the durability of health protection for immigrants, we utilize an unusually large data set containing a general adult population and a sizable number of immigrants. Living here, I quickly saw, was like taking a round-the-world balloon tour of the countries that were now reshaping the United States.

In a beautifully written narrative, she takes readers into the living rooms, kitchens, and restaurants of immigrant families and neighborhoods all across the country, exploring the sociable street life of Chicago’s “Little Village,” a Mexican enclave with extraordinarily low rates of asthma and heart disease; the focused quiet of Korean afterschool tutoring centers; and the loving, controlled chaos of a Jamaican extended-family home. We pool the NHIS respondents from 1992 to 2009 and restrict the sample to individuals aged 26–85 at the time of the survey. Because the differences in mortality hazards are not linearly correlated with YSI, we suspect that the cohort-of-arrival effect may contribute more to the YSI-related pattern.Uneasily, I started to daydream about waking up one day as the same person, but in a new country, faced with the kind of obstacles I made my living describing.

Even more puzzling, Hamilton and colleagues (2015: tables 3 and 4) used the same analytic strategy and found that recent Hispanic immigrants are less likely to report poor health than early immigrants.percentage points lower for foreign-born respondents than for native-born respondents at the beginning of the observation period (year of survey) and 0. And uniquely, perhaps, among America’s big, melting pot cities, it is home to large communities of all four major U. Immigrants are also likely to experience economic assimilation, which offsets their early disadvantages in income, employment, and living environments ( Borjas 1995; Duleep and Regets 2002; Hu 2000; Schoeni 1997; Villarreal and Tamborini 2018; Zheng and Yu 2021).