Healthy Migrants in an Unhealthy City? The Effects of Time on the Health of Migrants Living in Deprived Areas of Glasgow

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ID2067448
AutoresAileen Kearns (0000-0003-3198-8392, University of Glasgow, autor de correspondencia), Ade Kearns, Elise Whitley (0000-0002-0297-9078, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit), Matt Egan (0000-0002-4040-200X, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine), Catherine Tabbner (Glasgow Centre for Population Health), Carol Tannahill (Glasgow Centre for Population Health)
Año2017
Volumen18
Número3
Páginas675-698
Fecha de publicación2017-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of International Migration and Integration / Revue de l integration et de la migration internationale (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1488-3473 • E-ISSN: 1874-6365
EditorialSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s12134-016-0497-6
PMID28804271
OpenAlexW2346067505
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas14
Referencias citadas54

This paper examines the healthy immigrant effect in Glasgow, a post-industrial city where the migrant population has more than doubled in the last decade. Using data from a community survey in 15 communities across the city, the paper compares four health outcomes for the following three groups: British-born, social and economic migrants and asylum seekers and refugees. Migrants were found to be healthier than the indigenous population on all four measures, particularly in the case of adult households in both migrant groups and for older asylum seeker and refugee households. Health declines for social and economic migrants with time spent in the UK, but there is no clear pattern for asylum seekers and refugees. Health declined for refugees according to time spent awaiting a decision, whilst their health improved after a leave-to-remain decision. Indigenous and social and economic migrant health declines with time spent living in a deprived area; this was true for three health indicators for the former and two indicators for the latter. Asylum seekers and refugees who had lived in a deprived area for more than a year had slightly better self-rated health and well-being than recent arrivals. The study's findings highlight the role of destination city and neighbourhood in the health immigrant effect, raise concerns about the restrictions placed upon asylum seekers and the uncertainty afforded to refugees and suggest that spatial concentration may have advantages for asylum seekers and refugees

Demographic economics · Economics · Geography · Immigration · Indigenous · Political science · Population · Refugee · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Demography · Employment and Welfare Studies · Health disparities and outcomes · Migration, Health and Trauma