This chapter provides an overview of non family contexts that shape the development and adjustment of children and youth from immigrant families. It also describes the four chapters in this special issue that focus on peer, network, legal, and institutional contexts that influence the lives of immigrant parents and their children. Directions for future research on the social contexts of develop...

After completing this article, readers should be able to: 1. Describe the variety of backgrounds of immigrant children. 2. Delineate which groups of immigrant children have high rates of unaddressed health issues. 3. List the major health-care issues for immigrant children. 4. Characterize the screening that should be performed at the point of immigration for children. 5. Characterize medical, ...

Within a nine-month period from June 1987 to February 1988, over 15 Asian Indian people were brutally attacked in or around Jersey City, New Jersey. All of the incidents took place after a local newspaper published a letter from the -Dotbusters, an organization vowing to rid the community of Indians. This study illustrates how growing resentment and conflict between ethnic groups can manifest i...

This study was aimed at contributing to the understanding of cultural parenting strategies in a context of immigration. Socialization goals (SGs) and parenting behaviors during interaction with 3-month-old infants of first-generation West African immigrant mothers in Italy and autochthonous Italian mothers were compared. The relation between SGs and maternal behaviors within the two groups was ...

Background: During recent decades, immigration to European countries has increased substantially. Immigrant and ethnic minority women in Europe have higher rates of suicidal behaviour than women from the majority population. This indicates that circumstances that lead to suicidal behaviour of immigrant and ethnic minority women may be different from the population of the host countries. Methods...

In New York City, where almost 14% of elementary school pupils are foreign-born and roughly half of these are "recent immigrants, " the impact of immigrant students on school resources may be important. While immigrant advocates worry about inequitable treatment of immigrant students, others worry that immigrants drain resources from native-born students. In this article, we explore the variati...

There is an ongoing debate about equity and equality in health care, and whether immigrants benefit equally from services as the non-immigrant population. The study focuses on benefits from and adherence to the diabetes mellitus type 2 (DM 2) disease management program (DMP) among Turkish immigrants in Germany. So far, it has not been researched whether this group benefits from enrollment in th...

BACKGROUND Underimmunization of certain immigrant populations can place them at high risk of experiencing vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks. METHODS We conducted a retrospective cohort study between January 1, 2008, and May 1, 2013, among children included in the Washington State Immunization Information System. We assessed receipt of 1 or more doses of measles-containing, hepatitis A, pn...

This paper explores the multi-dimensional Asian American identity of immigrant Indians from their interview responses. Pan-ethnic in US as Americans, Mar Thoma Church community for religious identity, and second-generation Patel family’s union formation terms gender will be analyzed to find out reasons behind choice a particular identity. Historical frameworks like movement theoretical theories...

Introduction: Although socioeconomic status (SES) resources influence population and individual health behaviors, socially marginalized groups gain significantly less health from their SES indicators, such as education and income, compared to the socially privileged groups. This pattern is called marginalization-related diminished returns (MDRs). However, most of the MDRs liter...