Structural racism severely impacts the health of foreign-born Blacks and Latinx
New study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine highlights the magnitude of the disparities in health of racial/ethnic minorities ...
Tag: Immigrants & Migration
Tokyo’s voluntary standstill may have stopped COVID-19 in its tracks
Credit: Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo Tokyo - Why did Japan largely contain COVID-19 despite famously jam-packed ...
The rise of ‘zoom towns’ in the rural west
Growing populations in gateway communities cause urgent planning challenges; the GNAR initiative aims to help local officials prepareCredit: Brian Whitehead/National ...
Higher suicide risk among older immigrants with untreated depression
Credit: Photo by Kristina Bath and Johan Wingborg The risk of suicide is clearly elevated in the category of older ...
Method used to track Ebola’s trajectory being applied to COVID-19
Credit: University of South Florida What exactly happened in Asia that caused SARS-CoV-2 to rapidly spread across the region and ...
New funding explores the social, cultural and economic impact of COVID-19
Credit: uOttawa Seven University of Ottawa professors are among recipients of millions in funding from The Social Sciences and Humanities ...
Mobile clinics can help address health care needs of Latino farmworkers
UC Riverside study exposes disparities in health care access in rural Southern CaliforniaCredit: Center for Healthy Communities, UC Riverside RIVERSIDE, ...
Beyond Singapore’s bicentennial
We need to do more than reminiscence historyCredit: World Scientific "This is a timely publication, which commenced as Singapore was ...
Refugee camps vulnerable to COVID-19 outbreaks
Credit: Russell Watkins/UK Department for International Development, Flickr A COVID-19 outbreak in a refugee settlement will likely overwhelm the available ...
Discrimination may erase ‘birthweight advantage’ of black US immigrants in one generation
Credit: Egan Jimenez, Princeton University Black women have the highest prevalence of low birthweight babies compared to other racial and ...
Ancient genomes link subsistence change and human migration in northern China
Genetic analysis of 55 ancient individuals finds that genetic changes in Yellow River, West Liao River and Amur River populations ...
African skeletons from early colonial Mexico tell the story of first-generation slaves
An interdisciplinary study into the origins and health status of three African skeletons unearthed in Mexico shows evidence of forced ...
Immigrant Japan: understanding modern Japan through the lives and minds of migrants
In a new book, interviews of over 200 migrants in Japan give a glimpse of what life is like for ...
Census 2020: Understanding the Issues
Springer book covers the US Census from its Constitutional founding through the upcoming 2020 count, discusses the unique significance of ...