Thomas Kevin J A
Department of African and African Diaspora and Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA.
Sociol Health Illn. 2023 May;45(4):837-854. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13613. Epub 2023 Jan 24.
Recent studies indicate that the COVID-19 pandemic has had negative implications for the welfare of immigrant communities. However, few studies have examined the behavioural responses used by immigrants to respond to the spread of the virus. This study uses data from the U.S.-based COVID-19 in American Communities study to examine whether there are disparities in the use of COVID-19 prevention behaviours between first-generation immigrants (i.e., foreign-born persons), second-generation immigrants (i.e., U.S.-born persons with at least one immigrant parent), and third-generation individuals (i.e., U.S.-born persons with only U.S.-born parents). The results indicate that recent first-generation immigrants and second-generation immigrants use the behaviours recommended to prevent the spread of COVID-19 less intensively compared to third-generation individuals. Furthermore, increased exposure to U.S. society is found to have a non-linear relationship with the intense use of these behaviours. Results from the analysis of each preventive behaviour show that there are larger gaps between immigrants and U.S. natives in the use of frequent hand washing and comparatively smaller gaps in the practice of avoiding large crowds. However, the most consistent pattern of low use of COVID-19 prevention behaviours was found among recently arrived first-generation immigrants.
近期研究表明，新冠疫情对移民社区的福祉产生了负面影响。然而，很少有研究考察移民应对病毒传播所采用的行为反应。本研究利用美国社区新冠疫情研究的数据，来检验第一代移民（即外国出生者）、第二代移民（即至少有一位移民父母的美国出生者）和第三代个体（即父母均为美国出生的美国出生者）在新冠疫情预防行为的使用上是否存在差异。结果表明，与第三代个体相比，近期的第一代移民和第二代移民较少密集地采用推荐的预防新冠病毒传播的行为。此外，研究发现，接触美国社会的增加与这些行为的密集使用呈非线性关系。对每种预防行为的分析结果表明，移民与美国本土居民在频繁洗手的使用上差距较大，而在避免人群聚集的做法上差距相对较小。然而，在最近抵达的第一代移民中，发现了最一致的低使用新冠疫情预防行为的模式。
