Brown University Department of Sociology, Box 1916, Providence, RI 02912, USA.
Child Dev. 2012 Sep-Oct;83(5):1501-9. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01811.x.
Abundant U.S. research documents an "immigrant advantage" in children's physical health. This article extends consideration to the United Kingdom, permitting examination of a broader group of immigrants from disparate regions of the world and different socioeconomic backgrounds. Drawing on birth cohort data (ages 0-5) from both countries (n=4,139 and n=13,381), the analysis considers whether the children of immigrants have a physical and mental health advantage around the beginning of elementary school, and whether advantage is more pronounced among low-educated populations. Findings indicate that the children of immigrants are not uniformly healthier than those in native-born families. Rather, there is heterogeneity in the immigrant advantage across outcomes, and evidence of both greater advantage and disadvantage among children in low-educated immigrant families.
大量的美国研究文献证明了移民在儿童身体健康方面的“优势”。本文将这一考虑扩展到英国，允许对来自世界各地不同地区和不同社会经济背景的更广泛的移民群体进行考察。本研究利用来自这两个国家（n=4139 和 n=13381）的出生队列数据（0-5 岁），分析了移民子女在小学初期是否在身心健康方面具有优势，以及这种优势在受教育程度较低的人群中是否更为明显。研究结果表明，移民子女并不普遍比本土出生家庭的子女更健康。相反，移民优势在不同的结果中存在异质性，而且在受教育程度较低的移民家庭中，子女的优势和劣势都有证据。
