Moving beyond salmon bias: Mexican return migration and health selection

CJ Diaz, SM Koning, AP Martinez-Donate - Demography, 2016 - Springer
Despite having lower levels of education and limited access to health care services,
Mexican immigrants report better health outcomes than US-born individuals. Research …

Return migration to Mexico: Does health matter?

E Arenas, N Goldman, AR Pebley, G Teruel - Demography, 2015 - read.dukeupress.edu
We use data from three rounds of the Mexican Family Life Survey to examine whether
migrants in the United States returning to Mexico in the period 2005–2012 have worse …

[HTML][HTML] The weight of migration: reconsidering health selection and return migration among Mexicans

AM Martinez-Cardoso, AT Geronimus - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
While migration plays a key role in shaping the health of Mexican migrants in the US and
those in Mexico, contemporary Mexican migration trends may challenge the health selection …

Does selective migration explain the Hispanic paradox? A comparative analysis of Mexicans in the US and Mexico

G Bostean - Journal of immigrant and minority health, 2013 - Springer
Latino immigrants, particularly Mexican, have some health advantages over US-born
Mexicans and Whites. Because of their lower socioeconomic status, this phenomenon has …

[HTML][HTML] Uninsured migrants: health insurance coverage and access to care among Mexican return migrants

J Wassink - Demographic research, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Despite an expansive body of research on health and access to medical care
among Mexican immigrants in the United States, research on return migrants focuses …

Explaining the Mexican-American health paradox using selectivity effects

JN Martinez, E Aguayo-Tellez… - International …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
While typically socioeconomically disadvantaged, Mexican migrants in the United States
tend to have better health outcomes than non-Hispanic whites. This phenomenon is known …

Region of origin diversity in immigrant health: Moving beyond the Mexican case

MM Reynolds, A Chernenko, JG Read - Social science & medicine, 2016 - Elsevier
Research suggests that Mexican immigrants arrive in the United States with equivalent or
better health than native-born whites but lose their advantage over time. We seek to …

Healthier before they migrate, less healthy when they return? The health of returned migrants in Mexico

SH Ullmann, N Goldman, DS Massey - Social science & medicine, 2011 - Elsevier
Over the course of the 20th century, Mexico-US migration has emerged as an important facet
of both countries, with far reaching economic and social impacts. The health of Mexican …

The consequences of migration to the United States for short-term changes in the health of Mexican immigrants

N Goldman, AR Pebley, MJ Creighton… - …, 2014 - read.dukeupress.edu
Although many studies have attempted to examine the consequences of Mexico-US
migration for Mexican immigrants' health, few have had adequate data to generate the …

The healthy migrant effect: new findings from the Mexican Family Life Survey

LN Rubalcava, GM Teruel… - American journal of …, 2008 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. We used nationally representative longitudinal data from the Mexican Family Life
Survey to determine whether recent migrants from Mexico to the United States are healthier …