| Autor: |
Morales, Josefina Flores, Ka-Yuet Liu |
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Conference Papers - American Sociological Association; 2019, p1-22, 22p |
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Immigrant mortality is seldom studied alongside immigrant status. This omission obstructs our understanding about how exclusion from legal membership and institutional resources influences longevity. We document differences in mean age at death for migrants in California by immigrant status using death records. This is the first study using population wide death record data in the US with enough sample size (4,815,921) that allows detailed breakdown by causes of death over a period of time (1980 to 2013). We find that individuals who were potentially undocumented died about one year younger than foreign born migrants for circulatory diseases if we examine means. Looking at medians age at death shows that potentially undocumented migrants die 2 years for circulatory conditions, and 1 year for cancer compared with foreign-born legal migrants. Both of these conditions are associated with high healthcare needs, which undocumented migrants are unlikely to access. This study is important because it suggests that legal foreign-born immigrant health advantage is likely underestimated because of an inability to control for immigrant status. This preliminary analysis brings to bear how the social experience of being undocumented may be related to earlier age at death. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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