BACKGROUND Understanding health care utilization by neighbourhood is essential for optimal allocation of resources, but links between neighbourhood immigration and health have rarely been explored. Our objective was to understand how immigrant composition of neighbourhoods relates to health outcomes and health care utilization of individuals living with diabetes. METHODS This is a secondary a...

PURPOSE U.S. Latino parents of adolescents face unprecedented threats to family stability and well-being due to rapid and far-reaching transformations in U.S. immigration policy. METHODS Two hundred thirteen Latino parents of adolescents were recruited from community settings in a suburb of a large mid-Atlantic city to complete surveys assessing parents' psychological distress and responses t...

Many simple population models exhibit the period doubling route to chaos as a single parameter, commonly the growth rate, is increased. Here we examine the effect of an immigration process on such models and explain why in the case of one-dimensional ("single-humped") maps, immigration often tends to suppress chaos and stabilise equilibrium behaviour or cyclical oscillations of long period. The...

This brief essay provides a selective discussion of how in recent years economists in the neoclassical tradition have addressed the questions whether and how immigration affects native workers’ labour market outcomes. In particular, it discusses: the distinction between the displacement, productivity and amenity effects of immigration; the issues that arise in using wage changes to identify tho...

"This article makes the case that the new immigration [to the U.S. from developing Latin American and Asian countries], motivated by kinship ties and family reunification provisions of U.S. immigration law, leads to a clustering of new immigrants into areas that are no longer attracting large numbers of native-born Americans. It is argued that the concentration of these groups into ¿high immigr...

Over the last decade, there has been a vast expansion in the research on the extent, nature and consequences of international population movements to and from Australia. A key contributor to this research effort has been the Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population Research through its initiation and sponsorship of research on immigration issues. This greater amount of research has e...

How Do Very Open Economies Absorb Large Immigration Flows? Recent Evidence from Spanish Regions In recent years, Spain has received unprecedented immigration flows. Between 2001 and 2006 the fraction of the population born abroad more than doubled, increasing from 4.8% to 10.8%. For Spanish provinces with above-median inflows (relative to population), immigration increased the high school dropo...

Chinese immigration to America is hardly a new phenomenon; it can be dated back to the 18 century and possibly even earlier. However, the first major wave of immigration began in the mid 1800’s during the California Gold Rush and the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad. Less than a few decades later, though, laws like the Naturalization Act of 1870 and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 188...

Immigrants have long been perceived to take jobs away and to push down the wages of native workers. Given that the recent bout of Latin American immigration in the 1980s and 1990s coincided with the fall in earnings and employment of the less skilled, it is not surprising that, like previous immigration waves, recent Latin American immigration is sometimes blamed for the misfortunes of less ski...

This article analyzes the complex political environment of US immigration and refugee policies in which tensions exist, especially with regard to Central America and the Caribbean. Recommendations for managing it more effectively in the future are discussed. Several western countries, including the US, have implemented stricter restriction policies as a result of the perceived threats to ...