Gagnon, Monica Kansal, Nisha Goel, Ritika Gastaldo, Denise
Published in
Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
Migration is increasing at unprecedented rates worldwide, but inadequate mechanisms for granting citizenship or permanent residence have rendered many immigrants without legal status. We study the health of people without immigration status in Canada, building on a 2010 review on being without status and health. We employ an expanded definition of ...
Bacong, Adrian Matias Menjívar, Cecilia
Published in
Journal of immigrant and minority health
Immigrant health research has often noted an "immigrant health paradox", the observation that immigrants are "healthier" compared to their native-born peers of similar demographic and socioeconomic profile. This paradox disappears as immigrants stay longer in the host country. Multiple arguments, including migrant selectivity and cultural and behav...
Kowalewska, Dorota Adamczyk, Anita Trojanowska–Strzęboszewska, Monika
Published in
Data in Brief
The study contains a dataset from survey on the opinions of labour migrants from Ukraine in Poland, collected at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants (conducted in May and June 2020) were 617 migrant workers from Ukraine who remained in Poland during the first period of the pandemic in Poland. Due to limitations in face-to-face cont...
Monteiro, Laura Haan, Michael
Published in
Journal of International Migration and Integration
The subjective life satisfaction of individuals reveals valuable information about the overall well-being of a society. Furthermore, large international migration flows have led to the importance of studying the life satisfaction of immigrants within host countries, including Canada. This study uses secondary data from the 2013 Canadian General Soc...
Debras, François
The literature considers that right-wing populist parties (RWPP) are opposed to democracy (against its institutions or values). Nevertheless, it is undeniable that RWPP claim, in their speeches, the term “democracy”. I propose to study its meaning and mobilization. In more detail, the term “democracy” is mainly used to criticise the European Union ...
Landry, Alexander P. Ihm, Elliott Schooler, Jonathan W.
Published in
Evolutionary Psychological Science
The behavioral immune system (BIS) is an evolved psychological mechanism that motivates prophylactic avoidance of disease vectors by eliciting disgust. When felt toward social groups, disgust can dampen empathy and promote dehumanization. Therefore, we investigated whether the BIS facilitates the dehumanization of groups associated with disease by ...
Cao, Xuemei Sun, Ken Chih-Yan
Published in
Social Science & Medicine (1982)
Drawing on in-depth interviews with Chinese immigrants in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic, this article examines the construction of immigrants' transnational social safety net and its gaps as the pandemic struck their home and host societies successively. Building upon the scholarship on transnational migration and transnational social prote...
Kocijan, Bojana Kukec, Marko
Published in
Comparative European Politics
This article calls for greater attention to immigration attitudes of members of national parliaments (MPs) who absent harmonized immigration policy at the EU level remain the chief decision-makers and are thus responsible for swift government reaction to large influx of immigrants as witnessed in summer 2015 and spring 2020. Against this background...
Hendi, Arun S. Ho, Jessica Y.
Published in
SSM - Population Health
• Immigration adds 1.4 and 1.5 years to male and female life expectancy, respectively. • Immigration contributed roughly half of life expectancy gains between 2007 and 2017. • The post-2010 US mortality stagnation is due to adverse trends among the US-born. • Foreign-born life expectancies rival those of the world leaders in longevity.
Hanna, Kristiana Dasani, Divya Saad, Sarah Dasani, Megha Wagner, Katherine Balkoski, Victoria
Published in
The Psychiatric quarterly
The Capital District Asylum Collaborative (CDAC) is an organization that provides psychiatric and medical evaluations to be used as forensic evidence to support asylum applications. Our study assesses the demographics and traumas experienced by CDAC clients. In this retrospective study, 23 completed affidavits for clients evaluated through CDAC bet...
