E R Hamilton
Biographic Data
| ID | 16250 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E R Hamilton |
| GIVEN NAMES | E R |
| FAMILY NAME | Hamilton |
| SIGNATURE | HAMILTON E R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1548-5018 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 241 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
De Facto Deportation from the United States to Mexico, 2015–2020
De facto deportation is emigration to accompany a deported person, typically a nuclear family member. We study the recent de facto deportation of children, spouses, and parents of people deported from the United States to Mexico. We identify, quantify, and describe the characteristics of de facto deported people and compare them to those who migrated for other reasons using 2020 Mexican Census data. We also analyze data from interviews with retur…
Separación y planes de reunificación familiar después de la deportación a México desde Estados Unidos
El objetivo del artículo es analizar cómo las familias planean reorganizarse tras la separación forzada de padres e hijos utilizando datos de encuestas que cuantifican los planes de reunificación de padres deportados de Estados Unidos a México entre 2015 y 2019. Se utilizan registros administrativos estadounidenses y datos de la Encuesta sobre Migración en la Frontera Norte de México para estimar el número de adultos mexicanos deportados que fuer…
Immigrant Health Advantage? The Birth Outcomes of U.S.-Born Women in Mexico and Mexican-Origin Women in the United States
The migration of Mexican immigrants and their U.S.-born children from the United States to Mexico raises questions about the health of American citizens transitioning into adulthood in Mexico. Combining data from Mexican and U.S. birth records from 2015 to 2019, we analyzed the health of 12,373 infants born to U.S.-born women delivering in Mexico and compared them to infants born to Mexican-born women in Mexico, Mexican-born women in the United S…
Adverse Infant Health Outcomes Increased After the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election Among Non-White U.S.-born and Foreign-born Mothers
Macro-level events such as elections can improve or harm population health across existing axes of stratification through policy changes and signals of inclusion or threat. This study investigates whether rates of, and disparities in, adverse birth outcomes between racialized and nativity groups changed after Donald Trump's November 2016 election, a period characterized by increases in xenophobic and racist messages, policies, and actions in the …
Gender identity, sexual orientation, and the prenatal androgen theory: Reevaluating definitions, cognitive tests, and somatic markers
Unauthorized Mexican-Born Immigrants, Occupational Injuries, and the use of Medical Services in the United States
This article examines how unauthorized immigrant status is associated with the risk of suffering a work-related accident or illness and with the use of medical services after experiencing an injury among Mexican immigrants in the United States. Using individual-level data on 81,004 Mexican immigrants who previously worked in the United States and were interviewed when they returned to Mexico in the Survey of Migration in the Northern Border of Me…
Legal Status, Deportation, and the Health of Returned Migrants from the USA to Mexico
Immigrant Legal Status Disparities in Health Among First- and One-point-five-Generation Latinx Immigrants in California
Restrictive US immigration laws and law enforcement undermine immigrant health by generating fear and stress, disrupting families and communities, and eroding social and economic wellbeing. The inequality and stress created by immigration law and law enforcement may also generate disparities in health among immigrants with different legal statuses. However, existing research does not find consistent evidence of immigrant legal status disparities …
U.S. Citizen Children De Facto Deported to Mexico
Between 2000 and 2015, the U.S. deported unprecedented numbers of Mexican immigrants. During the same period, the population of U.S.‐born children living in Mexico doubled in size. This study estimates the number of U.S.‐born children who emigrated to Mexico from the United States in order to accompany a deported parent: de facto deported children. The data come from the Mexican National Survey of Demographic Dynamics (ENADID), a national probabi…
The Limits of Gaining Rights while Remaining Marginalized: The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) Program and the Psychological Wellbeing of Latina/o Undocumented Youth
Policies that expand the rights of marginalized groups provide an additional level of structural integration, but these changes do not always come with broad social acceptance or recognition. What happens when a legally marginalized group attains increased rights but not full political or social inclusion? In particular, what are the mental health implications of these transitions for impacted groups? We bring together theories of liminal legalit…
The Migration of Children from Mexico to the USA in the Early 2000s
Daca's Association With Birth Outcomes Among Mexican-Origin Mothers in the United States
The 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program granted work authorization and protection from deportation to more than 800,000 young undocumented immigrants who arrived to the United States as minors. We estimate the association between this expansion of legal rights and birth outcomes among 72,613 singleton births to high school–educated Mexican immigrant women in the United States from June 2010 to May 2014, using birth records …
Family Separation and Remigration Intentions to the USA among Mexican Deportees
Increasingly stringent immigration enforcement in the US interior has led to the deportation of large numbers of long‐term Mexican immigrants with families in the USA. We analyse the statistical association between the intent to return to the USA and leaving minor children with spouses or other people in the USA among Mexican immigrants deported from the US interior in 2014–2018, and explore if this association varies by sex and year of deportati…
Paths to Mobility: A Longitudinal Evaluation of Earnings Among Latino/a Daca Recipients in California
Undocumented immigration status is a structural barrier to socioeconomic mobility. The regularization of legal status may therefore promote the socioeconomic mobility of formerly undocumented immigrants. The 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program provided protection against deportation and access to work authorization for eligible undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children. While studies using cross-sect…
The Life-Course Timing of Legalization: Evidence from the Daca Program
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was created to mitigate some of the harmful consequences of undocumented immigration status. Although research shows that the DACA program promoted employment outcomes for the average DACA recipient, life-course theory and immigrant integration theory suggest that the program may differentially affect younger and older recipients. Using data from the American Community Survey, the authors …
Transition into Liminal Legality: Daca's Mixed Impacts on Education and Employment among Young Adult Immigrants in California
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, implemented by executive order in 2012, granted a subset of undocumented youth temporary relief from deportation, work authorization, and other benefits. While theories of immigrant integration predict that legalization will enable immigrant socioeconomic mobility, past research on DACA's effects on education and employment have reached mixed conclusions, possibly reflecting the limitatio…
Migration and Mental Health in Mexico: Domestic Migrants, Return U.S. Migrants, and Non-Migrants
In this paper, we use survey data from the Mexican Retrospective Demographic Survey (Encuesta Demográfica Retrospectiva) and National Survey of Households (Encuesta Nacional de Hogares) collected in 2017 to examine self-reports of depression, anxiety, chronic fatigue, and pain among domestic migrants, returned U.S. migrants, and non-migrants. Although self-reports do not always correspond to clinical diagnoses, they offer some insight into mental…
Contextualizing Mexican Migrant Education Selectivity
The debate on whether Mexican immigrants are positively or negatively selected on education has been limited by studying immigrants in data collected only from the sending or the destination country. Using nationally representative data from Mexico that tracked migrants to the United States prospectively, we examine the education selectivity of Mexicans who immigrated to the United States from 2002 to 2005. We find that using reports of migration…
Uncertainty About Daca May Undermine Its Positive Impact On Health For Recipients And Their Children
Undocumented immigrants and their children have worse self-reported health than documented immigrants and US citizens do. Evidence suggests that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which was created in 2012 by President Barack Obama and which granted some rights to undocumented immigrants who arrived as children, improved the well-being of recipients and their children in the first three years after the program's introducti…
Growing up Without Status: The Integration of Children in Mixed‐Status Families
Over the past three decades, a central new challenge confronting millions of children of immigrants has emerged: growing up in a mixed‐status family in which at least one member lacks legal authorization to live and work in the United States. A body of recent research argues that unauthorized immigrant status is the fundamental determinant of integration for unauthorized immigrants, with intergenerational consequences for their U.S.‐born children…
Immigrants in Their Parental Homeland: Half a Million U.S.-born Minors Settle Throughout Mexico
In the past 10 years, a historical change occurred in migration flows within North America: specifically, Mexico–U.S. migration reached zero net migration. Alongside Mexican adults returning to their homeland was an unprecedented number of U.S.-born minors. Little is known about this massive migration of U.S. citizen children. We analyze Mexican census data from 2000 to 2015 to estimate the size and characteristics of the population of U.S.-born …
Immigrant Legal Status and Health: Legal Status Disparities in Chronic Conditions and Musculoskeletal Pain Among Mexican-Born Farm Workers in the United States
Immigrant legal status determines access to the rights and privileges of U.S. society. Legal status may be conceived of as a fundamental cause of health, producing a health disparity whereby unauthorized immigrants are disadvantaged relative to authorized immigrants, a perspective that is supported by research on legal status disparities in self-rated health and mental health. We conducted a systematic review of the literature on legal status dis…
Gender and Health in Mexico: Differences between Returned Migrants and Nonmigrants
This study considers gender differences in the health of Mexican migrants who return to Mexico from the United States, and Mexican nonmigrants. We use health data before and after migration to examine disparities in women's and men's childhood and adult health, comparing returned migrants and nonmigrants in Mexico. Using data on more than 14,000 household heads and their spouses interviewed between 2007 and 2016 in the Mexican Migration Project, …
Blessed be the Ties: Health and Healthcare for Migrants and Migrant Families in the United States
The study of migrant health provides a window into understanding themes related to the human condition.As outsiders and movers, migrants reveal what is normally taken for granted in the places where they settle: the social systems and institutions that replicate and control the social orderand the limits of those systems for the operation of a fair, humane, and healthy society.At the same time, migrants reveal the resilience of social actors navi…
Deporting Fathers: Involuntary Transnational Families and Intent to Remigrate among Salvadoran Deportees
One-fourth of deportees from the United States are parents of US-citizen children. We do not know how separation from families affects remigration among deportees, who face high penalties given unlawful reentry. We examined how family separation affects intent to remigrate among Salvadoran deportees. The majority of deportees with children in the United States were also separated from their spouse, and the vast majority had US-citizen children. F…
Immigrant Legal Status and Health: Legal Status Disparities in Chronic Conditions and Musculoskeletal Pain Among Mexican-Born Farm Workers in the United States
Immigrant legal status determines access to the rights and privileges of U.S. society. Legal status may be conceived of as a fundamental cause of health, producing a health disparity whereby unauthorized immigrants are disadvantaged relative to authorized immigrants, a perspective that is supported by research on legal status disparities in self-rated health and mental health. We conducted a systematic review of the literature on legal status dis…
Assimilation and emerging health disparities among new generations of U.S. children
This article shows that the prevalence of four common child health conditions increases across generations (from first-generation immigrant children to second-generation U.S.-born children of immigrants to third-and-higher-generation children) within e
Deporting Fathers: Involuntary Transnational Families and Intent to Remigrate among Salvadoran Deportees
One-fourth of deportees from the United States are parents of US-citizen children. We do not know how separation from families affects remigration among deportees, who face high penalties given unlawful reentry. We examined how family separation affects intent to remigrate among Salvadoran deportees. The majority of deportees with children in the United States were also separated from their spouse, and the vast majority had US-citizen children. F…
Transition into Liminal Legality: Daca's Mixed Impacts on Education and Employment among Young Adult Immigrants in California
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, implemented by executive order in 2012, granted a subset of undocumented youth temporary relief from deportation, work authorization, and other benefits. While theories of immigrant integration predict that legalization will enable immigrant socioeconomic mobility, past research on DACA's effects on education and employment have reached mixed conclusions, possibly reflecting the limitatio…
Immigrants in Their Parental Homeland: Half a Million U.S.-born Minors Settle Throughout Mexico
In the past 10 years, a historical change occurred in migration flows within North America: specifically, Mexico–U.S. migration reached zero net migration. Alongside Mexican adults returning to their homeland was an unprecedented number of U.S.-born minors. Little is known about this massive migration of U.S. citizen children. We analyze Mexican census data from 2000 to 2015 to estimate the size and characteristics of the population of U.S.-born …
Effects of neighborhood racial composition on birthweight
Beyond the Epidemiological Paradox: The Health of Mexican‐American Children at Age Five
Objective. This study investigates how prenatal demographic, social, and behavioral characteristics of Mexican‐origin immigrant mothers, which are linked to their relatively healthy birth outcomes, influence the subsequent health of their children in comparison to other racial and ethnic groups. Methods. We use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study on a cohort of 2,819 children born between 1998 and 2000 to analyze chronic heal…
Mexican American Birthweight and Child Overweight: Unraveling a Possible Early Life Course Health Transition
Mexican American children have a weight distribution that categorizes them as relatively healthy at birth but relatively unhealthy by age 3. This early life course transition in health based on weight raises the question of whether Mexican American children 'outgrow' the epidemiologic paradox of favorable birth outcomes despite social disadvantage or whether their birthweight distribution places them on trajectory for overweight in childhood. We …
Two Sources of Error in Data on Migration From Mexico to the United States in Mexican Household-Based Surveys
We examine the nature and degree of two sources of error in data on migration from Mexico to the United States in Mexican household-based surveys: (1) sampling error that results when whole households migrate and no one is left behind to report their migration; and (2) reporting errors that result when migrants are not identified by survey respondents. Using data from the first two waves of the Mexican Family Life Survey, which tracked Mexican mi…
Daca's Association With Birth Outcomes Among Mexican-Origin Mothers in the United States
The 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program granted work authorization and protection from deportation to more than 800,000 young undocumented immigrants who arrived to the United States as minors. We estimate the association between this expansion of legal rights and birth outcomes among 72,613 singleton births to high school–educated Mexican immigrant women in the United States from June 2010 to May 2014, using birth records …
The mixed effects of migration: Community-level migration and birthweight in Mexico
Shifting Trends in Central American Migration: A Demographic Examination of Increasing Honduran-U.S. Immigration and Deportation
Paths to Mobility: A Longitudinal Evaluation of Earnings Among Latino/a Daca Recipients in California
Undocumented immigration status is a structural barrier to socioeconomic mobility. The regularization of legal status may therefore promote the socioeconomic mobility of formerly undocumented immigrants. The 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program provided protection against deportation and access to work authorization for eligible undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children. While studies using cross-sect…
Growing up Without Status: The Integration of Children in Mixed‐Status Families
Over the past three decades, a central new challenge confronting millions of children of immigrants has emerged: growing up in a mixed‐status family in which at least one member lacks legal authorization to live and work in the United States. A body of recent research argues that unauthorized immigrant status is the fundamental determinant of integration for unauthorized immigrants, with intergenerational consequences for their U.S.‐born children…
Gendered disparities in Mexico-U.S. migration by class, ethnicity, and geography
Men are more likely than women to migrate from Mexico to the United States. This disparity has been shown to vary by level of education, suggesting that gender may interact with other forms of social status to inform the relative risk of Mexico-U.S. migrat
Changes in the Transnational Family Structures of Mexican Farm Workers in the Era of Border Militarization
Historically, undocumented Mexican farm workers migrated circularly, leaving family behind in Mexico on short trips to the United States. Scholars have argued that border militarization has disrupted circular migration as the costs of crossing the border lead to longer stays, increased settlement, and changing transnational family practices. Yet, no study has explored changes in the transnational family structures of Mexico-U.S. migrants that spa…
Rush to the border? Market liberalization and urban- and rural-origin internal migration in Mexico
The Migration of Children from Mexico to the USA in the Early 2000s
Family Separation and Remigration Intentions to the USA among Mexican Deportees
Increasingly stringent immigration enforcement in the US interior has led to the deportation of large numbers of long‐term Mexican immigrants with families in the USA. We analyse the statistical association between the intent to return to the USA and leaving minor children with spouses or other people in the USA among Mexican immigrants deported from the US interior in 2014–2018, and explore if this association varies by sex and year of deportati…
Gender and Health in Mexico: Differences between Returned Migrants and Nonmigrants
This study considers gender differences in the health of Mexican migrants who return to Mexico from the United States, and Mexican nonmigrants. We use health data before and after migration to examine disparities in women's and men's childhood and adult health, comparing returned migrants and nonmigrants in Mexico. Using data on more than 14,000 household heads and their spouses interviewed between 2007 and 2016 in the Mexican Migration Project, …
U.S. Citizen Children De Facto Deported to Mexico
Between 2000 and 2015, the U.S. deported unprecedented numbers of Mexican immigrants. During the same period, the population of U.S.‐born children living in Mexico doubled in size. This study estimates the number of U.S.‐born children who emigrated to Mexico from the United States in order to accompany a deported parent: de facto deported children. The data come from the Mexican National Survey of Demographic Dynamics (ENADID), a national probabi…
The Life-Course Timing of Legalization: Evidence from the Daca Program
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was created to mitigate some of the harmful consequences of undocumented immigration status. Although research shows that the DACA program promoted employment outcomes for the average DACA recipient, life-course theory and immigrant integration theory suggest that the program may differentially affect younger and older recipients. Using data from the American Community Survey, the authors …
Legal Status, Deportation, and the Health of Returned Migrants from the USA to Mexico
Loans and Leaving: Migration and the Expansion of Microcredit in Cambodia
Health Insurance and Health‐Care Utilization of U.S.‐Born Mexican‐American Children
Objectives. We document and model health insurance coverage and health‐care utilization of very young, U.S.‐born Mexican‐American children relative to their non‐Hispanic white and black counterparts. Methods. We use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study and multivariate regression methods. Results. Based on descriptive and multivariate analyses, the findings show that compared to non‐Hispanic white children, Mexican‐American ch…
Health Insurance and Health‐Care Utilization of U.S.‐Born Mexican‐American Children
Objectives. We document and model health insurance coverage and health‐care utilization of very young, U.S.‐born Mexican‐American children relative to their non‐Hispanic white and black counterparts. Methods. We use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study and multivariate regression methods. Results. Based on descriptive and multivariate analyses, the findings show that compared to non‐Hispanic white children, Mexican‐American ch…
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Low Birthweight Among Urban Unmarried Mothers
Effects of neighborhood racial composition on birthweight
Beyond the Epidemiological Paradox: The Health of Mexican‐American Children at Age Five
Objective. This study investigates how prenatal demographic, social, and behavioral characteristics of Mexican‐origin immigrant mothers, which are linked to their relatively healthy birth outcomes, influence the subsequent health of their children in comparison to other racial and ethnic groups. Methods. We use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study on a cohort of 2,819 children born between 1998 and 2000 to analyze chronic heal…
Psychosocial Factors Associated with Patterns of Smoking Surrounding Pregnancy in Fragile Families
Although research has documented factors associated with maternal smoking, we need a more in-depth understanding of the risk factors associated with changes in smoking behaviors during the postpartum period. We investigate smoking patterns during pregnancy and 1 year postpartum as a function of relevant psychosocial factors. We use data on 3,522 postpartum mothers from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to analyze the predictors of sm…
Development and the Urban and Rural Geography of Mexican Emigration to the United States
Past research on international migration from Mexico to the United States uses geographically-limited data and analyzes emigrant-sending communities in isolation. Theories supported by this research may not explain urban emigration, and this research does not consider connections between rural and urban Mexico. In this study we use national data from Mexico to investigate rural and urban emigration. We find that a central motivation for emigratio…
Shifting Trends in Central American Migration: A Demographic Examination of Increasing Honduran-U.S. Immigration and Deportation
Assimilation and emerging health disparities among new generations of U.S. children
This article shows that the prevalence of four common child health conditions increases across generations (from first-generation immigrant children to second-generation U.S.-born children of immigrants to third-and-higher-generation children) within e
Mexican American Birthweight and Child Overweight: Unraveling a Possible Early Life Course Health Transition
Mexican American children have a weight distribution that categorizes them as relatively healthy at birth but relatively unhealthy by age 3. This early life course transition in health based on weight raises the question of whether Mexican American children 'outgrow' the epidemiologic paradox of favorable birth outcomes despite social disadvantage or whether their birthweight distribution places them on trajectory for overweight in childhood. We …
Rush to the border? Market liberalization and urban- and rural-origin internal migration in Mexico
Loans and Leaving: Migration and the Expansion of Microcredit in Cambodia
Two Sources of Error in Data on Migration From Mexico to the United States in Mexican Household-Based Surveys
We examine the nature and degree of two sources of error in data on migration from Mexico to the United States in Mexican household-based surveys: (1) sampling error that results when whole households migrate and no one is left behind to report their migration; and (2) reporting errors that result when migrants are not identified by survey respondents. Using data from the first two waves of the Mexican Family Life Survey, which tracked Mexican mi…
Gendered disparities in Mexico-U.S. migration by class, ethnicity, and geography
Men are more likely than women to migrate from Mexico to the United States. This disparity has been shown to vary by level of education, suggesting that gender may interact with other forms of social status to inform the relative risk of Mexico-U.S. migrat
The mixed effects of migration: Community-level migration and birthweight in Mexico
Deporting Fathers: Involuntary Transnational Families and Intent to Remigrate among Salvadoran Deportees
One-fourth of deportees from the United States are parents of US-citizen children. We do not know how separation from families affects remigration among deportees, who face high penalties given unlawful reentry. We examined how family separation affects intent to remigrate among Salvadoran deportees. The majority of deportees with children in the United States were also separated from their spouse, and the vast majority had US-citizen children. F…
Changes in the Transnational Family Structures of Mexican Farm Workers in the Era of Border Militarization
Historically, undocumented Mexican farm workers migrated circularly, leaving family behind in Mexico on short trips to the United States. Scholars have argued that border militarization has disrupted circular migration as the costs of crossing the border lead to longer stays, increased settlement, and changing transnational family practices. Yet, no study has explored changes in the transnational family structures of Mexico-U.S. migrants that spa…
Understanding patterns of contraceptive use among never married Mexican American women
Non-marital fertility differs considerably by race, ethnicity, and nativity. These differences arise largely from racial and ethnic disparities in contraceptive practices. Empirical work has not assessed the relative importance of the various mechanisms pr
Blessed be the Ties: Health and Healthcare for Migrants and Migrant Families in the United States
The study of migrant health provides a window into understanding themes related to the human condition.As outsiders and movers, migrants reveal what is normally taken for granted in the places where they settle: the social systems and institutions that replicate and control the social orderand the limits of those systems for the operation of a fair, humane, and healthy society.At the same time, migrants reveal the resilience of social actors navi…
Uncertainty About Daca May Undermine Its Positive Impact On Health For Recipients And Their Children
Undocumented immigrants and their children have worse self-reported health than documented immigrants and US citizens do. Evidence suggests that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which was created in 2012 by President Barack Obama and which granted some rights to undocumented immigrants who arrived as children, improved the well-being of recipients and their children in the first three years after the program's introducti…
Growing up Without Status: The Integration of Children in Mixed‐Status Families
Over the past three decades, a central new challenge confronting millions of children of immigrants has emerged: growing up in a mixed‐status family in which at least one member lacks legal authorization to live and work in the United States. A body of recent research argues that unauthorized immigrant status is the fundamental determinant of integration for unauthorized immigrants, with intergenerational consequences for their U.S.‐born children…
Immigrants in Their Parental Homeland: Half a Million U.S.-born Minors Settle Throughout Mexico
In the past 10 years, a historical change occurred in migration flows within North America: specifically, Mexico–U.S. migration reached zero net migration. Alongside Mexican adults returning to their homeland was an unprecedented number of U.S.-born minors. Little is known about this massive migration of U.S. citizen children. We analyze Mexican census data from 2000 to 2015 to estimate the size and characteristics of the population of U.S.-born …
Immigrant Legal Status and Health: Legal Status Disparities in Chronic Conditions and Musculoskeletal Pain Among Mexican-Born Farm Workers in the United States
Immigrant legal status determines access to the rights and privileges of U.S. society. Legal status may be conceived of as a fundamental cause of health, producing a health disparity whereby unauthorized immigrants are disadvantaged relative to authorized immigrants, a perspective that is supported by research on legal status disparities in self-rated health and mental health. We conducted a systematic review of the literature on legal status dis…
Gender and Health in Mexico: Differences between Returned Migrants and Nonmigrants
This study considers gender differences in the health of Mexican migrants who return to Mexico from the United States, and Mexican nonmigrants. We use health data before and after migration to examine disparities in women's and men's childhood and adult health, comparing returned migrants and nonmigrants in Mexico. Using data on more than 14,000 household heads and their spouses interviewed between 2007 and 2016 in the Mexican Migration Project, …
Migration and Mental Health in Mexico: Domestic Migrants, Return U.S. Migrants, and Non-Migrants
In this paper, we use survey data from the Mexican Retrospective Demographic Survey (Encuesta Demográfica Retrospectiva) and National Survey of Households (Encuesta Nacional de Hogares) collected in 2017 to examine self-reports of depression, anxiety, chronic fatigue, and pain among domestic migrants, returned U.S. migrants, and non-migrants. Although self-reports do not always correspond to clinical diagnoses, they offer some insight into mental…
Contextualizing Mexican Migrant Education Selectivity
The debate on whether Mexican immigrants are positively or negatively selected on education has been limited by studying immigrants in data collected only from the sending or the destination country. Using nationally representative data from Mexico that tracked migrants to the United States prospectively, we examine the education selectivity of Mexicans who immigrated to the United States from 2002 to 2005. We find that using reports of migration…
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