“…While some studies suggest that the healthy immigrant effect may extend to indicators of cognitive functioning, including orientation, attention, memory, language, and reasoning (Kopec et al, 2001; Hill et al, 2012), other reports show no apparent immigrant advantage (Collins et al, 2009; Haan et al, 2011; Miranda et al, 2009; Nguyen et al, 2002; Sachs-Ericsson et al, 2009; Sheffield & Peek, 2009). To date, researchers have also neglected to consider whether gender might moderate the association between immigrant status and cognitive functioning (Hill et al, 2012). This omission is important because women and men tend to migrate for different reasons and experience migration in unique ways (Curran, 2006; Donato, 2010; Suarez-Orozco & Qin, 2006).…”