Laboratory

Population Health

At a Glance Projects Publications Team

Project

Health and Migration

Kieron Barclay, Silvia Loi, Mikko Myrskylä, Jo Mhairi Hale (MPIDR / University of St Andrews, United Kingdom), Pekka Martikainen (MPIDR / University of Helsinki, Finland), Erin Hamilton (University of California, Davis, USA)

This project investigates the health conditions of ethnic minorities and migrants, the dynamics of the native-migrant health gap over time and across generations, and the effect of forced migration on mortality. Research on health inequalities by migration status and ethnicity is important for understanding overall health inequalities.  Detailed Description

Publications

Loi, S.; Li, P.; Myrskylä, M.:

Immigrant-native health disparities: an intersectional perspective on the weathering hypothesis

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-005. (2023)    

Loi, S.; Li, P.; Myrskylä, M.:

At the intersection of adverse life course pathways: the effects on health by nativity

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2022-018. (2022)    

Caputo, J.; Li, P.; Kühn, M.; Brønnum-Hansen, H.; Oksuzyan, A.:

Immigration background and the widowhood effect on mortality

Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 76:10, 2155–2168. (2021)    

Loi, S.; Pitkänen, J.; Moustgaard, H.; Myrskylä, M.; Martikainen, P.:

Health of immigrant children: the role of immigrant generation, exogamous family setting, and family material and social resources

Demography, 1–31. (2021)    

Eibich, P.; Liu, C.:

For better or for worse mental health? The role of social networks for exogamous older couples

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-012. (2020)    

Loi, S.; Vono de Vilhena, D.:

Exclusion through statistical invisibility. An exploration on what can be known through publicly available datasets on irregular migration and the health status of this population in Germany

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-009. (2020)    

Hamilton, E. R.; Patler, C. C.; Hale, J. M.:

Growing up without status: the integration of children in mixed-status families

Sociology Compass 13:6, e12695–e12695. (2019)    

Loi, S.; Hale, J. M.:

Migrant health convergence and the role of material deprivation

Demographic Research 40:32, 933–962. (2019)    

Loi, S.; Pitkänen, J.; Moustgaard, H.; Myrskylä, M.; Martikainen, P.:

Health of immigrant children: the role of immigrant generation, exogamous family setting, and family material and social resources

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2019-009. (2019)    

Nguyen, E. T.; Hale, J. M.:

"You just don’t understand me!" Determinants of second generation Asian and Latino youth self-esteem

International Migration 55:5, 44–61. (2017)