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Published: 01 June 2024
Fig. 1 Estimated growth of recent Venezuelan diaspora in top receiving countries. Estimates are from the UNHCR Data Finder ( https://www.unhcr.org/refugee-statistics/download/ ). MNP = migrants in need of international protection. DR = Dominican Republic. More
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Demography (2017) 54 (1): 175–200.
Published: 13 January 2017
... migrant height and smoking levels just prior to immigration to test for self-selection; and we analyze smoking behavior since immigration, controlling for self-selection, to assess protection. We study individuals aged 20–49 from five major national origins: India, China, the Philippines, Mexico...
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Demography (2024) 61 (3): 737–767.
Published: 01 June 2024
...Fig. 1 Estimated growth of recent Venezuelan diaspora in top receiving countries. Estimates are from the UNHCR Data Finder ( https://www.unhcr.org/refugee-statistics/download/ ). MNP = migrants in need of international protection. DR = Dominican Republic. ...
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Demography (2021) 58 (1): 165–189.
Published: 01 February 2021
... of the principle bases for establishing citizenship rights and identity in urban China ( Cheng and Selden 1994 ; Roberts 1997 ; Whyte 2010 ). For example, from 1984 to 2015, rural migrants needed a temporary residence permit, similar to a visa, to obtain legal working status in urban areas. The majority of rural...
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Demography (2020) 57 (3): 1089–1116.
Published: 04 May 2020
... 129 euros per month, but the amount is 194 euros if they reside in a private dwelling (Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (Germany) 2019 ). Given the low migration costs involved in migrating to Germany from the Balkan region and the longer time needed to evaluate the asylum claims...
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Demography (2005) 42 (2): 347–372.
Published: 01 May 2005
... communities and households may reinforce "traditional" gender-role behaviors for migrant women as a way of preserving their cultural heritage and protecting themselves from the disintegrating forces arising from residence in a foreign environment (Espin 1999). Studies have shown that as minority- group...
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Demography (2015) 52 (6): 1853–1868.
Published: 18 September 2015
... include the need to take care of a family member at home and the difficulty of finding a job at the destination. Direct evidence on the extent to which return migrants are in poorer health than those who stay in the United States is scarce because it requires measurement of migrant health...
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 351–359.
Published: 01 March 1967
... and was therefore unconstitutional, the Department of Justice began litigation procedures to repeal it. But evidence was needed to prove that the law was in fact discriminatory. The lawyers contacted demographers at the Bureau of the Census to provide data to determine if the majority of persons affected were Negro...
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Demography (2016) 53 (5): 1555–1581.
Published: 21 September 2016
... of education on predicted prevalence of MetS (Table 4 ), suggests partial health selection or protection. However, if selection exists at all, its effects are not powerful (or SES-graded) enough to flatten the education health gradient of migrants (Fig. 1 ). Examination of the values of R , for example...
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Demography (2024) 61 (6): 1975–1998.
Published: 01 December 2024
.... These findings point to the possibility of two very different groups of slum residents: long-term residents who intend to remain in the slums and short-term residents who use circular migration as a livelihood strategy ( Beguy et al. 2010 ). Such migrants may foster to facilitate mobility and protect children...
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Demography (2015) 52 (3): 919–942.
Published: 23 April 2015
... the sociological and epidemiological perspectives to identify key attributes of the social organization of heterosexual partnering—in particular, the sexual mixing of population groups identified by their age, education, and levels of sexual activity, as well as the extent to which these patterns protect or expose...
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Demography (2025) 62 (2): 571–597.
Published: 01 April 2025
... from the European Social Survey on attitudes toward outsiders and the Migrant Integration Policy Index on integration policies. Our findings show that the association between intermarriage and immigrant occupation status is stronger in countries with more welcoming policies, whereas attitudes toward...
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Demography (2022) 59 (3): 1071–1092.
Published: 01 June 2022
... but from policy shifts in the United States that increased the supply of temporary work visas. Although 12 visa categories permit temporary labor in the United States, Mexican migrants are concentrated in just three: H-2A visas for agricultural workers, H-2B visas for nonagricultural workers, and TN visas...
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Demography (2004) 41 (4): 739–756.
Published: 01 November 2004
... more contractually. These results point to the need for further research and theory development to explain heterogeneities in migrants’ behavior. 14 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2004 2004 Altruistic Behavior Male Migrant Individual Migrant Implicit Contract...
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Demography (2014) 51 (6): 2203–2228.
Published: 19 November 2014
...Andrés Villarreal Abstract The rate of Mexico-U.S. migration has declined precipitously in recent years. From 25 migrants per thousand in 2005, the annual international migration rate for Mexican men dropped to 7 per thousand by 2012. If sustained, this low migration rate is likely to have...
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Demography (2016) 53 (6): 2005–2030.
Published: 15 November 2016
... of explanations support the so-called Hispanic paradox, including data misreporting (Dechter and Preston 1991 ; Rosenberg et al. 1999 ), protective cultural factors among migrant populations (Hummer et al. 1999 ; Scribner 1996 ), and selective migration flows (Crimmins et al. 2005 ; Palloni and Morenoff...
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Demography (2015) 52 (5): 1543–1570.
Published: 18 August 2015
... the analysis, we need data on population shares of Mexican immigrants by U.S. destination; enforcement intensity by Border Patrol sector; choices of border crossings and destinations by migrants to construct the weights used in the enforcement index; and destination-specific control variables. We describe...
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Demography (2013) 50 (6): 2053–2073.
Published: 01 August 2013
... between the overseas-born and the New Zealand–born for all-cause, cancer, and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality. However, we found evidence for lower all-cause (and possibly cancer and CVD) mortality rates for Pacific migrants resident in New Zealand for less than 25 years relative to those resident...
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Demography (2015) 52 (4): 1321–1343.
Published: 23 June 2015
...-to-urban migration began in the 1980s and has resulted in a remarkable growth of a “floating population.” These internal “temporary” migrants include an estimated 150 million people, which is more than one-tenth of China’s total population (Chan and Zhang 1999 ; Fan 2003 ). For married rural couples...
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Demography (2022) 59 (5): 1655–1681.
Published: 01 October 2022
... protection as reflected in mortality is stable and long-lasting. Models 2 and 3 of Table 4 present the results by gender and race/ethnicity. From the log odds estimates, immigrants' survival advantage expanded over time for all subgroups except White and Black women, for whom it significantly...
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