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Demography
Regina S. Baker, David Brady, Zachary Parolin, Deadric T. Williams
Summary: Ethno-racial inequalities in poverty have declined but remain large from 1993 to 2017 in the U.S. Black and Latino individuals are still about twice as likely to be poor as White individuals, while the evidence on Asian-White differences is mixed. Employment and immigration are crucial factors explaining the poverty gaps between different racial groups.
POPULATION RESEARCH AND POLICY REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Demography
Monica Alexander, Kivan Polimis, Emilio Zagheni
Summary: Measuring and forecasting migration patterns is important for understanding population trends, designing effective policies, and allocating resources. This paper proposes a statistical framework that combines social media data with traditional survey data to produce timely predictions of migrant stocks. The model shows better performance compared to alternatives that solely rely on either social media or survey data.
POPULATION RESEARCH AND POLICY REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Demography
Patrick Heuveline
Summary: This article reports on the changes in global life expectancies from the available evidence at the end of 2021. The global life expectancy declined during the COVID-19 pandemic, but seemed to have stabilized in the last quarter of 2021. The decline in life expectancy between 2020 and 2021 was smaller, but it marked the first decline since 1950.
POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Demography
Yang Liu, Fred Dervin
Summary: This study examines the experiences of white Americans in mainland China, a predominantly non-white context. The research reveals that these individuals are viewed as white Others by the Chinese, who admire and consume their whiteness. The white Americans adopt various strategies to negotiate their white Otherness in mainland China.
JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Demography
Na Ren, Hong Liu
Summary: Ethnic Chinese businesses and associations have formed institutionalized transnational interactions with China to facilitate cross-border flows. Despite policies implemented by Southeast Asian states, this economic transnationalism has not diluted the national identity and political loyalty of ethnic Chinese towards their respective countries.
JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Demography
Steven Ruggles, David Van Riper
Summary: The Census Bureau plans to add noise to statistics below the state level for the 2020 census to protect confidentiality, but their experiment failed to compare results to a null model to demonstrate that matches were not random. As a result, the credibility of the threat to confidentiality is not established.
POPULATION RESEARCH AND POLICY REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Demography
Tobias Weidinger, Stefan Kordel
Summary: This paper examines the housing issues faced by recognized refugees in rural Germany during their integration process. The study finds that individual and family residential preferences, structural factors, and exclusion mechanisms all impact refugees' access to appropriate housing. The role of place and social resources in overcoming exclusion and providing housing are highlighted.
INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION
(2023)
Article
Demography
Francisco J. Beltran Tapia, Michail Raftakis
Summary: Son preference in 19th- and early 20th-century Greece led to unjustly increased mortality rates for female infants and children. Discriminatory practices towards girls were evident from birth and continued through childhood, reflecting their inferior status in society.
POPULATION STUDIES-A JOURNAL OF DEMOGRAPHY
(2022)
Article
Demography
Adrian Favell
Summary: This paper critically reviews the current state of migration studies, focusing on the contrast between established comparative scholarship and a new generation of work influenced by critical theory. It highlights the effects of state power in bordering, managing, and cultivating diverse populations, and argues that this is a key feature of neoliberal racial capitalism. The paper also explores the limits of humanitarian arguments for open borders and expansive asylum rights.
JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES
(2022)
Editorial Material
Demography
Anna Triandafyllidou
Summary: Temporariness has become a prominent feature in international migration, characterized by fragmentation, non-linearity, and multiple intermediate stops, returns, and departures. This special issue introduces a new analytical framework that considers different categories of temporary migration, migrants' subjective perceptions, as well as the role of policies and lived experiences.
JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Demography
Min Ju Kim, Bridget K. Gorman
Summary: Using data from the 2002-2003 National Latino and Asian American Study (NLAAS), this study examines the relationship between acculturation and self-rated health among Asian immigrants, revealing that separated immigrants are more likely to report poor-to-fair health compared to assimilated immigrants. Furthermore, gender-stratified analysis shows noticeable differences in the acculturation-health relationship between Asian immigrant men and women.
POPULATION RESEARCH AND POLICY REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Demography
Jacob Nielsen Arendt
Summary: This study estimates the labor market effects of a work-first policy on the integration of refugees. The results show that the policy accelerated entry into regular jobs for men, but they ended up in precarious jobs with few hours. The policy had no or minimal effects for women, partly due to a lower treatment intensity for women.
JOURNAL OF POPULATION ECONOMICS
(2022)
Article
Demography
Paolo Boccagni, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
Summary: This article explores homemaking as a practice and perspective in migrants' local incorporation, emphasizing its material, emotional, and social dimensions. The study argues that homemaking can be seen as a distinct analytical category in immigrant integration, moving beyond the traditional assimilationist and transnationalist frameworks. Based on ongoing research in the US and Europe, the authors highlight the importance of migrants' interactions with specific local opportunities and structures, including individuals, institutions, and the built and natural environment. The article also emphasizes the negotiation of meanings, opportunities, and contents of integration at the critical site of the built and natural environment, where immigrant newcomers engage with their local and transnational counterparts. The study suggests that the stratified rights, opportunities, and aspirations of migrants in making themselves at home offer a promising perspective on group relations embedded in everyday materialities. While integration efforts are multi-dimensional and multi-scalar, they are still influenced by local inequalities and interactions within and between groups, as well as underlying differences in views, emotions, and practices of home.
INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION
(2023)
Article
Demography
Tarik Abou-Chadi, Denis Cohen, Markus Wagner
Summary: This article examines the competition between radical right and centre-right parties, revealing that anti-migration views and economic grievances have become stronger predictors of voter choice over time. Additionally, the study shows that attempts by centre-right parties to attract radical right voters have not been successful.
JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Demography
Rourke O'Brien, Elizabeth F. Bair, Atheendar S. Venkataramani
Summary: The decline of manufacturing employment is a key cause of worsening U.S. population health trends, and increasing automation has led to substantive increases in all-cause mortality for both men and women aged 45-54. Automation is associated with increases in drug overdose deaths, suicide, homicide, and cardiovascular mortality, with variations by age and sex.
Article
Demography
Giuseppe Gabrielli, Sergio Longobardi, Salvatore Strozza
Summary: The study investigates academic resilience among socio-economically disadvantaged students using data from the OECD Programme for International Students Assessment. Findings suggest that self-efficacy beliefs, positive home environment, and language attitudes at home have positive effects on academic adjustment among immigrant-origin students.
JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Demography
Leah F. Vosko
Summary: This article explores the distinction between mobility and migration in Canada and highlights the potential exploitation in some subprograms of the International Mobility Program. It also discusses how participants from historically exploited countries are affected by migration control measures and institutionalized racism.
JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Demography
Rui Wang, Xi Chen, Xun Li
Summary: The Flint water crisis modestly increased the rate of low birth weight, with a larger effect on children born to black mothers and a decrease in birth weight for children born to white mothers. Although the male-to-female sex ratio in the overall population did not decline significantly, there was a slight decrease among children born to black mothers. However, there was no notable change in the fertility rates of either black women or white women in Flint during the crisis.
JOURNAL OF POPULATION ECONOMICS
(2022)
Article
Demography
Evelyn J. Patterson, Andrea Becker, Darwin A. Baluran
Summary: Scholars recognize sex and race as social determinants of health, but demography research often ignores their derivatives (racism and sexism) and their contribution to racial inequality in maternal mortality. This study, guided by intersectionality and weathering, examined the maternal mortality rates in the U.S. from 2015 through 2019 using formal demographic techniques.
POPULATION RESEARCH AND POLICY REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Demography
Ann Berrington, Joanne Ellison, Bernice Kuang, Sindhu Vasireddy, Hill Kulu
Summary: The recent declines in period fertility in the constituent countries of the UK during the past decade and speculate mechanisms through which the COVID-19 pandemic could influence childbearing in the UK. The effects are likely to differ by age and presence of children.
POPULATION SPACE AND PLACE
(2022)
