Neighborhood Deprivation and Mental Health Among Immigrants to Sweden

Raphael, Eva; White, Justin S.; Li, Xinjun; Cederin, Klas; Glymour, M. Maria; Sundquist, Kristina; Sundquist, Jan; Hamad, Rita

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“… 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 However, 1 prior study found that neighborhood disadvantage was not associated with refugee mental health in the context of a similar refugee dispersal policy in Sweden. 67 …”

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Association of Neighborhood Disadvantage With Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Events Among Refugees in Denmark

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“…With respect to mental health , the evidence on the effects of contextual factors of the place of residence is mixed (Figure 2). While some studies provide strong evidence of negative effects of regional deprivation 27 and socioeconomic disadvantage 31 on mental health, other high-quality studies find no such relationship 34,41 . Further studies find moderate evidence of the effect of the benefits of high migrant density 40 and weak evidence of the negative effects of terrorist attacks 32 on the mental health of migrants.…”

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“…Given the diversity of refugee populations, and, increasingly, of so-called “host” populations in an era of super-diversity 20 , there is no good reason to believe that the effects of context would operate any differently on migrant and non-migrant groups give careful consideration of causal models and mechanisms. We may, therefore, be able to use these studies as a lens and state that the identified negative effects of neighbourhood disadvantage and deprivation on physical health, mortality and child health 27,30,31,36,41,42,46 as well as the absence of effects of income inequality 34 apply to other human beings exposed to these contextual effects. This applies equally to other studies using natural experiments among migrants to study the effects of policy changes such as food stamp restrictions 47,48,52 .…”

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Context and health: a systematic review of natural experiments among migrant populations

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Background: Studies on contextual effects on health often suffer from compositional bias and selective migration into contexts. Natural experiments among migrants may allow for the causal effect of contexts in generating health inequalities to be examined. We synthesised the evidence on and health from natural experiments among migrant populations. Methods: Systematic literature review searching the databases PubMed/MEDLINE, The Cochrane Library, Web of Science, CINAHL and Google Scholar for literature published until October 2022. 5870 studies were screened independently in duplicate using pre-defined criteria for inclusion: quantitative natural experiment methodology, migrant study population, context factor as treatment variable and health or healthcare outcome variable. Synthesis without meta-analysis was performed following data extraction and quality appraisal. Findings: The 46 included natural experiment studies provide causal evidence for the negative effects of neighbourhood disadvantage on physical health and mortality, while finding mixed effects on mental health. Studies comparing migrants with those that stayed behind demonstrate the detrimental effects of migration and adverse post-migratory contexts on physical health and mortality, while demonstrating favourable effects for mental health and child health. Natural experiments of policy contexts indicate the negative impacts of restrictive migration and social policies on healthcare utilization, mental health and mortality as well as the positive health effects when restrictions are lifted. Interpretation: Natural experiments can serve as powerful tools in reducing bias through self-selection. With careful consideration of causal pathways, results from migration contexts can serve as a magnifying glass for the effects of context for other population groups. Studies demonstrate the negative impacts for health which lie at the nexus of context and health. At the same time, they uncover the potential of health and welfare programs to counteract the disadvantages created by othering processes and promote healthy (post-migratory) contexts.

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“…Neighbourhood poverty is often associated with an insufficient provision of public services and a substandard physical living environment (Wen, Browning, and Cagney 2003;Stuart, Mudhasakul, and Sriwatanapongse 2009;McKenzie et al 2013). It is also related to poorer health outcomes (Hajat et al 2010;Chang et al 2012;Denney, Saint Onge, and Dennis 2018;Raphael et al 2020). Yet, deprived neighbourhoods are also likely to be areas with large immigrant communities and with an important level of social cohesion, a factor that has been found to have a protective effect on immigrants' health (Das-Munshi et al 2010;Bécares et al 2012).…”

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Immigrants’ earnings and neighbourhood economic wealth: the conditioning role of citizenship

Leclerc

2021

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Do higher earnings translate into better living conditions for immigrants? While spatial assimilation theory argues that residential patterns reflect economic assimilation, place stratification theory states that immigrants face structural obstacles in their search for better housing, including housing market discrimination. Existing scholarship does not facilitate distinguishing between these contrasting perspectives as analyses typically compare across immigrant groups and natives. By contrast, we focus in this paper on legal status discrimination within the immigrant population in the Netherlands, by testing whether citizenship acquisition provides a positive signal towards housing market actors and moderates the effect of income on residential mobility. We analyse this relation using administrative microdata and using fixed-effects models to control for selection into naturalisation due to unobserved time-invariant heterogeneity. We find that the relation between income gains and immigrants' propensity to live in wealthier neighbourhoods is stronger for naturalised immigrants. These results corroborate the place stratification argument and suggest that naturalisation may help reduce nationality based discrimination.

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Neighborhood Deprivation and Mental Health Among Immigrants to Sweden

Cited by 13 publications

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Association of Neighborhood Disadvantage With Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Events Among Refugees in Denmark

Association of Neighborhood Disadvantage With Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Events Among Refugees in Denmark

Context and health: a systematic review of natural experiments among migrant populations

Immigrants’ earnings and neighbourhood economic wealth: the conditioning role of citizenship

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