Changes in the Demographic Behaviour of Migrants in Australia and the Transition between Generations

Young, Christabel

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“…There is a consistent finding, in most of the literature, that adult immigrants from less-to more-developed countries have lower mortality than the host population, although their children may have a higher level of mortality (Maffenini, 1980;Peters and Van der Veen, 1990;Rosenwaike, 1990;Sharma et al, 1990;Young, 1991;Choinie`re, 1993;Abraı´do-Lanza et al, 1999). Only Wild and McKeigue (1997) report a higher level of mortality for immigrants to Britain.…”

Section: The Mortality Of Migrantsmentioning

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“…In Belgium, Maffenini (1980) reported that immigrants to Belgium, around 1970, showed lower mortality, for both sexes and at all ages except males under 5, and Peters and Van der Veen (1990) reported a greater risk of stillbirths and perinatal deaths for Turkish and Moroccan mothers in Belgium. Choinie`re (1993) showed that life expectancy at birth in Montreal census tracts rose as the proportion of immigrants rose, controlling for wealth, but so did infant mortality, and Sharma et al (1990) reported that all immigrant groups to Canada have higher life expectancy than the native Canadian population and, except for Africans, higher life expectancy than their populations of origin; Rosenwaike (1990) reported lower cancer and circulatory mortality for Puerto Ricans in the United States than US whites, but higher levels of external-cause mortality; and Young (1991) showed the same result for immigrants to Australia. Abraı´do-Lanza et al (1999), analysing US data, consider the possibility that immigrants' lower mortality is a statistical artefact deriving from some immigrants' undocumented return home (''salmon bias,'' reflecting a salmonlike tendency to return in illness or old age to one's place of birth) but reject this explanation on the grounds that Cubans and Puerto Ricans, two groups to which the salmon bias could not apply, also show reduced mortality.…”

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The Migrant Mortality Advantage: A 70 Month Follow-up of the Brussels Population

Anson

2004

European Journal of Population

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There is considerable evidence that first generation immigrants to developed countries tend to have lower mortality than does the population as a whole at their destination. This advantage is usually ascribed to a selection process which makes migrants more robust than the local population and/or an acculturation process whereby third-world migrants lose their natural healthy life style as they take on modern urban dietary and living habits. We investigate immigrant-local mortality differences using a 6-year follow-up of the complete Brussels population aged 25-55, as enumerated at the Belgian census, 1991. We show that adult migrants have lower mortality than their native-born counterparts, despite their often poorer living arrangements, work status and human capital. This effect differs by origin group. The effects of age on mortality are similar for all groups, with mortality increasing about 8% a year. This increase is slightly greater for the Belgian born than for immigrants, which makes the selectivity explanation unlikely. Years since migration does not significantly increase the mortality risk for most groups, contradicting the acculturation hypothesis. Thus, explanations ascribing immigrants' mortality advantage to migrant selectivity, pre-modern cultural practices, or an artefact of population recording practices are insufficient. We propose, instead, an explanation based on the meaning migration has for the immigrant, and the hope engendered in the move, particularly that from a lesser to a more developed country. Anson, J., 2004. La sous-mortalite´des migrants. Une enqueˆte suivie de 70 mois sur la population de Bruxelles. Revue Europe´enne de De´mographie, 20: 191-218.Re´sume´. Selon de nombreuses e´tudes, dans les pays de´veloppe´s, les immigrants de premie`re ge´ne´ration ont une mortalite´plus basse que celle des autochtones. Cet avantage est habituellement attribue´a`un effet de se´lection qui fait que les migrants sont plus robustes que la population locale et/ou a`un processus d'acculturation qui fait progressivement perdre aux migrants un mode de vie plus sain au profit de modes de vie et d'alimentation typiques de la vie urbaine moderne. Nous e´tudions les diffe´rences de mortalite´entre immigrants et autochtones at ravers les re´sultats d'une enqueˆte suivie de l'ensemble de la population bruxelloise aˆge´e de 25 a`55 ans au recensement belge de 1991. Les migrants adultes ont une mortalite´plus basse que 191 les autochtones, en de´pit de conditions de logement et d'emploi plus pre´caires et d'un moindre capital humain. L'effet varie selon l'origine des migrants. L'influence de l'aˆge sur la mortaliteé st le meˆme pour tous les groupes, avec une mortalite´augmentant d'environ 8% par anne´e d'aˆge. Ce rythme est le´ge`rement plus rapide pour la population ne´e en Belgique que pour les immigrants, ce qui rend peu vraisemblable l'hypothe`se de la se´lection. Dans la plupart des groupes, le nombre d'anne´es e´coule´es depuis la migration n'augmente pas significativement le risque de de´ce`s, cont...

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Section: The Mortality Of Migrantsmentioning

confidence: 77%

Section: The Mortality Of Migrantsmentioning

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The Migrant Mortality Advantage: A 70 Month Follow-up of the Brussels Population

Anson

2004

European Journal of Population

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“…57-79;Swicegood et al, 1986;Tribalat, 1987;Bouvier, 1991;Young, 1991;Booth, 1992, pp. What studies there have been (e.g., Day, 1983, pp.…”

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Recent fertility trends in industrialized countries: Toward a fluctuating or a stable pattern?

Day

1995

Eur J Population

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Recent fertility trends in industralized countries: Toward a fluctuating or a stable pattern? European Journal of Population/Revue Europ6enne de D6mographie 11: 275-288.Abstract. By the mid-1980s, fertility in most of the world's "developed" countries had declined to unprecedentedly low levels. Since then, it has declined still further in some, increased slightly in others, and fluctuated in still others. Irrespective of cause, these changes could not have occurred in the absence of substantial control over childbearing.While future increases and decreases are both possible, it is argued that, contrary to the usual demographic expectations for populations exercising substantiaI control over fertility, fertility in most of these countries will increase to approximate replacement levels and then undergo only minor fluctuations around these levels thereafter.Day, L. H., 1995, Tendances r6centes de la f6condit6 des pays industrialis6s: vers une 6volution fluctuante ou stable? European Joumal of Population/Revue Europ6enne de D6mographie 11: 275-288.R~sum~. D~s le milieu des ann6es 1980, la f6condit6 des la plupart des pays d6velopp6s 6tait tomb6e ~t des bas niveaux sans pr6c6dent. Depuis, dans certains d'entre eux, elle a continu6 ~t baisser, dans d'autres elle a 16g~rement repris, et dans d'autres encore elle a fluctu6. Quelle qu'en soit la cause, ces changements n'auraient pas pu survenir en l'absence d'un contr61e substantiel des naissances.Alors qu'une hausse ou une baisse h venir de la f6condit6 sont toutes les deux possibles, nous soutenons ici que, contrairement aux attentes d6mographiques habituelles, pour les populations exer~ant un contrSle substantiel des naissances, la f6condit6 de la plupart de ces pays croitra pour approcher le niveau de renouvellement des g6n6rations pour ensuite connaitre de faibles fluctuations autour de ces niveaux. I n t r o d u c t i o nP e r i o d fertility m e a s u r e s , b e c a u s e they are so s u b j e c t to t e m p o r a l variation, are n e c e s s a r i l y u n r e l i a b l e i n d i c a t o r s o f u l t i m a t e fertility levels (for s o m e r e c e n t illustration o f this point, see, e.g.,

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“…For the most part, however, this attention has taken the form of analyses of demographic data and the construction and interpretation of statistical information based upon census figures. The underlying concern of this research has been to chart the generational assimilation of these various 'new' Australians into the mainstream of Australian life and culture (Gray 1987, Jones 1991, McCaa 1989, Price 1982, 1993, Price & Zubrzycki 1962a, 1962b, Young 1991. Underpinning this research priority has been the presumption of a culturally and racially Anglo-Celtic core culture into which immigrants would .…”

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Interethnic families: The development trajectory of a major study

Carrington

1999

Aust. Educ. Res.

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Changes in the Demographic Behaviour of Migrants in Australia and the Transition between Generations

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The Migrant Mortality Advantage: A 70 Month Follow-up of the Brussels Population

The Migrant Mortality Advantage: A 70 Month Follow-up of the Brussels Population

Recent fertility trends in industrialized countries: Toward a fluctuating or a stable pattern?

Interethnic families: The development trajectory of a major study

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