Plasticity in the growth of Mayan refugee children living in the United States

Mascie‐Taylor, C. G. N.; Bogin, Barry; Harrison, G. A.

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“…Since 1992 we have studied the growth of Maya children living in the United States (Bogin, 1995;Bogin and Loucky, 1997;Bogin et al, 2001). These children are the offspring of Maya adults who emigrated from Guatemala, mostly firom the late 1970s to the early 1990s.…”

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“…The USA-2000 sample includes children living in Indiantown, Florida (a rural community, n = 329), and Los Angeles, California (n = 102). The history of these communities and the biocultural environment of the refugees have been reported in detail elsewhere (Ashbranner and Conklin, 1986;Burns, 1989Burns, , 1993Loucky, 1993Loucky, , 1996Bogin, 1995;Bogin and Loucky, 1997).…”

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Rapid change in height and body proportions of Maya American children

Bogin

Smith

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American J Hum Biol

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Maya families from Guatemala migrated to the United States in record numbers from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. Births to Maya immigrant women have created a sizable number of Maya American children. The height and sitting height of 5 to 12 years children (n = 431) were measured in 1999 and 2000. Leg length was estimated and the sitting height ratio was calculated. These data were compared with a sample of Maya children living in Guatemala measured in 1998 (n = 1,347). Maya American children are currently 11.54 cm taller and 6.83 cm longer-legged, on average, than Maya children living in Guatemala. Consequently, the Maya Americans have a significantly lower average sitting height ratio (i.e., relatively longer legs in proportion to length of the head and trunk) than do the Maya in Guatemala. These results add support to the hypothesis that both the height and body proportions of human populations are sensitive indicators of the quality of the environment for growth.

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Rapid change in height and body proportions of Maya American children

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American J Hum Biol

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“…The Maya refugee children considered in this study reside in Indiantown, Florida (a rural community), and Los Angeles, California. A brief review of the history of Maya immigration into these two communities (Ashbranner and Conklin, 1986;Burns, 1989Burns, , 1993Loucky, 1993Loucky, , 1996Bogin, 1995) provides a general description of the biocultural environment of the refugees of the present study.…”

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Plasticity, political economy, and physical growth status of Guatemala Maya children living in the United States

Bogin

Loucky

1997

Am. J. Phys. Anthropol.

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Migration of Maya refugees to the United States since the late 1970s affords the opportunity to study the consequences of life in a new environment on the growth of Maya children. The children of this study live in Indiantown, Florida, and Los Angeles, California. Maya children between 4 and 14 years old (n = 240) were measured for height, weight, fatness, and muscularity. Overall, compared with reference data for the United States, the Maya children are, on average, healthy and well nourished. They are taller and heavier and carry more fat and muscle mass than Maya children living in a village in Guatemala. However, they are shorter, on average, than children of black, Mexican-American, and white ethnicity living in Indiantown. Children of Maya immigrants born in the United States tend to be taller than immigrant children born in Guatemala or Mexico. Families that invest economic and social resources in their children have taller children. More economic successful families have taller children. Migration theory and political economy theory from the social sciences are combined with plasticity theory and life history theory (parental investment) from biology to interpret these data.

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“…Existing research describes how various populations have responded to varying degrees of environmental deprivation (Dreizen et al, 1967;Satyanarayana et al, 1981Satyanarayana et al, , 1989Billewicz and McGregor, 1982;Bogin et al, 1990Bogin et al, , 1992 or environmental enhancement, as through migration (Schumacher et al, 1987;Yip et al, 1992;Bogin, 1995), or adoption (Lien et al, 1977;Adolfsson and Westphal, 1981;Proos, 1993;Proos et al, 1993), but much remains to be learned about the plasticity of growth under changing environmental circumstances. While means of biological parameters have been used to assess differences in central growth tendencies among population samples, analysis of correlations of biological parameters helps clarify the growth patterns of individuals within a group and, by extension, differences among groups of individuals.…”

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Can socioeconomic factors account for ?atypical? correlations between timing, peak velocity, and intensity of adolescent growth in Taiwanese girls?

Floyd

2000

Am. J. Hum. Biol.

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This study uses longitudinal height records of girls in two urban and one rural area in Taiwan. Individual height records were modeled with the Preece‐Baines Model 1 (PB1) function to test two related hypotheses: 1) Taiwanese students who experienced a relatively stable, affluent growth environment from an early age, as judged from parental education and stability of residence type, will have a pattern of correlations for the timing and intensity of the growth spurt similar to those of European and American females; and 2) those students whose parents gained the wherewithal to move from single‐story to multi‐story dwellings while they were in primary school will have the most atypical patterns. The extent to which these and other sociodemographic factors influence pubertal spurt velocities and increments of adolescent growth were explored as well using multiple regression analyses. Results support the view that rapid socioeconomic change in Taiwan influenced the relationship between the timing and intensity of adolescent growth in stature. Children in the more stable environments in both urban areas had patterns of correlations typical of population samples from developed countries. The most atypical correlations in both areas were found among those who likely experienced the greatest improvement in socioeconomic status during primary school. These represent positive values previously unreported in the literature. Differences in amounts of growth, though in accord with these patterns, were quite small. Am. J. Hum. Biol. 12:102–117, 2000. © 2000 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.

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Plasticity in the growth of Mayan refugee children living in the United States

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Rapid change in height and body proportions of Maya American children

Rapid change in height and body proportions of Maya American children

Plasticity, political economy, and physical growth status of Guatemala Maya children living in the United States

Can socioeconomic factors account for ?atypical? correlations between timing, peak velocity, and intensity of adolescent growth in Taiwanese girls?

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