Department of Sociology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA.
Department of Sociology, McGill University, 855 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC, H3A2T7, Canada.
J Immigr Minor Health. 2022 Oct;24(5):1345-1366. doi: 10.1007/s10903-021-01245-0. Epub 2021 Sep 16.
A large body of research has documented an immigrant mortality advantage. However, we still do not know enough about how interactions between the characteristics of origin and destinations countries shape variabilities in immigrants' experiences and health. In this paper, we examine the effects of ethno-cultural similarities and differences between the country of origin and the country of destination on immigrants' longevity. We use meta-regression methods to examine data on 78 origin and 16 destination countries (1092 risk estimates from 69 studies). In contrast to expectations from approaches that focus on immigration/acculturation stress, we found that a shared official linguistic family, moving to a country where one is not likely to be considered a visible minority, and more integrative immigration policies actually reduce or even eliminate the immigrant mortality advantage. We discuss potential explanations for these findings and argue that selection mechanisms provide a better account.
大量研究记录了移民的死亡率优势。然而，我们仍然不太了解原籍国和目的地国的特征之间的相互作用如何塑造移民经历和健康的差异。在本文中，我们研究了原籍国和目的地国之间的种族-文化相似性和差异对移民寿命的影响。我们使用元回归方法检查了 78 个原籍国和 16 个目的地国（69 项研究中的 1092 个风险估计值）的数据。与关注移民/文化适应压力的方法的预期相反，我们发现，使用共同的官方语言家族、迁往一个不太可能被视为少数族裔的国家，以及更具包容性的移民政策，实际上会降低甚至消除移民的死亡率优势。我们讨论了这些发现的潜在解释，并认为选择机制提供了更好的解释。
