Immigration and health /

• Other Authors: Frank, Reanne (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019.
• Series: Advances in medical sociology ; v. 19.
• Subjects: Immigrants > Health and hygiene > United States.; Immigrants > Services for > United States.; Social Science / Emigration & Immigration.; Migration, immigration & emigration.

The 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. E...

Table of Contents:

• Prelims
• Advancing the field of immigration and health
• Cross-national perspectives
• Problematizing acculturation
• Structural approach
• Index.