Looking down or Looking Up: Status and Subjective Well-Being among Asian and Latino Immigrants in the United States

Gelatt, Julia

doi:10.1111/imre.12013

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“…This transition may result in subjective comparisons of social standing and well-being that favor less healthy dietary changes (such as ''an American diet is better'' or ''fast food is a luxury my family deserves''). Immigrants may maintain a dual reference framework, wherein they make nutrition decisions with reference to practices and values in their home countries, which might foster the consumption of unhealthy foods high status but unhealthy foods [37]. Our results contrast previous research addressing food insecurity and dietary intake [9]; however after controlling for time in the US the correlation coefficient was lower (q s = -0.19), losing its predicting power.…”

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confidence: 94%

Factors Correlated to Protective and Risk Dietary Patterns in Immigrant Latino Mothers in Non-metropolitan Rural Communities

Torres-Aguilar

Terán-García

Wiley

et al. 2015

J Immigrant Minority Health

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Immigrant Latinos face conditions which over time negatively impact their nutritional behaviors and health outcomes. Our objective was to evaluate associations between environmental and lifestyle factors and both protective dietary patterns (e.g., intake of fruits and vegetables) and harmful dietary patterns (e.g., consumption of salty snacks and fast food). Surveys were individually and orally administered to 105 foreign-born Latina mothers living in rural locations in a Midwestern state. Principal component analysis created composite variables for each construct and Spearman correlations were conducted to determine associations. Protective dietary patterns were positively associated with access to food and information (ρs = 0.21) and language acculturation (ρs = 0.24), and negatively associated with family challenges (ρs = -0.31). Food insecurity was negatively associated with harmful dietary patterns (ρs = -0.24). Findings suggest that rural Latino dietary interventions should be complemented with comprehensive strategies addressing environmental and lifestyle factors across ecological domains.

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confidence: 94%

Factors Correlated to Protective and Risk Dietary Patterns in Immigrant Latino Mothers in Non-metropolitan Rural Communities

Torres-Aguilar

Terán-García

Wiley

et al. 2015

J Immigrant Minority Health

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“…Additionally, as people mostly compare their current conditions to those of the recent past (Helson 1964), immigrants who reside in the host country for longer periods compare the host society's current societal conditions more to past conditions that they experienced in the host country as opposed to the home country. Qualitative and quantitative studies mostly support the idea that the frames of reference shift partially from home countries to host countries over time, resulting in a dual frame of reference (Reese 2001;Menjívar and Bejarano 2004;Gelatt 2013;Franzini and Fernandez-Esquer 2006;Akay et al 2017).…”

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Unsuccessful Subjective Well-Being Assimilation Among Immigrants: The Role of Faltering Perceptions of the Host Society

Hendriks

Burger

2019

J Happiness Stud

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Immigrants in developed countries typically fail to assimilate in terms of their subjective well-being, meaning that their happiness and life satisfaction do not substantially increase with their length of stay or across generations, and therefore their subjective well-being remains lower than that of natives. This finding contrasts with migrants' own expectations and the predictions of straight-line assimilation theory, along with the general improvement of immigrants' objective living conditions with their length of stay. Using European Social Survey data, we show that the gradual development of less positive perceptions of the host country's economic, political, and social conditions is associated with less positive subjective well-being trajectories among first generation immigrants and across migrant generations in developed European countries. This negative association is particularly strong for immigrants whose societal conditions strongly improved by migration and immigrants who arrived after childhood. However, compared with natives, the more positive societal perceptions of first-generation immigrants are associated with a subjective well-being advantage. We attribute these findings to immigrants' growing aspirations and expectations that follow from their habituation to better conditions in their host country and fewer (more) comparisons to the inferior (better) conditions of the people in their home (host) country. Our findings suggest that delaying or decelerating the process of immigrants' faltering societal perceptions is a promising pathway to improved subjective well-being assimilation and reduced frustration about their perceived lack of progress.

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“…While we expand on past work by moving beyond conventional measures of residential attainment, these more-specific measures are somewhat prone to subjectivity. It is widely acknowledged that in assessing their social position, immigrants make comparisons not only to those in their current countries, but also to those in their prior ones (Franzini and Fernandez-Esquer, 2006; Gelatt, 2013). Consequently, it is important to keep in mind in interpreting the more-subjective outcomes (in contrast to our more objective ones [ownership and household crowding]) that group differences can reflect both variation in real living conditions and variation in how comparisons are framed.…”

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Housing and neighborhood quality among undocumented Mexican and Central American immigrants

Hall

Greenman

2013

Social Science Research

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Extensive research has documented the challenges that undocumented immigrants face in navigating U.S. labor markets, but relatively little has explored the impact of legal status on residential outcomes despite their widespread repercussions for social well-being. Using data from the 1996–2008 panels of the Survey of Income and Program Participation to impute documentation status among Mexican and Central American immigrants, we examine group differences in residential outcomes, including homeownership, housing crowding, satisfaction with neighborhood and housing quality, problems with neighborhood crime/safety, governmental services, and environmental issues, and deficiencies with housing units. Results from our analysis indicate that undocumented householders are far less likely to be homeowners than documented migrants, and also live in more crowded homes, report greater structural deficiencies with their dwellings, and express greater concern about the quality of public services and environmental conditions in their neighborhoods. In comparison to native whites, undocumented migrants’ residential circumstances are lacking, but their residential outcomes tend to be superior to those of native-born blacks. Overall, our results highlight the pervasive impact of legal status on stratifying Mexicans’ and Central Americans’ prospects for successful incorporation, but also underscore the rigidity of the black/nonblack divide structuring American residential contexts.

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Looking down or Looking Up: Status and Subjective Well-Being among Asian and Latino Immigrants in the United States

Cited by 70 publications

References 32 publications

Factors Correlated to Protective and Risk Dietary Patterns in Immigrant Latino Mothers in Non-metropolitan Rural Communities

Factors Correlated to Protective and Risk Dietary Patterns in Immigrant Latino Mothers in Non-metropolitan Rural Communities

Unsuccessful Subjective Well-Being Assimilation Among Immigrants: The Role of Faltering Perceptions of the Host Society

Housing and neighborhood quality among undocumented Mexican and Central American immigrants

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