The Weight of Migration: Reconsidering Health Selection and Return Migration among Mexicans.

ABSTRACT: While migration plays a key role in shaping the health of Mexican migrants in the US and those in Mexico, contemporary Mexican migration trends may challenge the health selection and return migration hypotheses, two prevailing assumptions of how migration shapes health. Using data from the Mexican Family Life Survey (2002; 2005), we tested these two hypotheses by comparing the cardiometabolic health profiles of (1) Mexico-US future migrants and nonmigrants and (2) Mexico-US return migrants and nonmigrants. First, we found limited evidence for health selection: the cardiometabolic health of Mexico-US future migrants was not measurably better than the health of their compatriots who did not migrate, although migrants differed demographically from nonmigrants. However, return migrants had hig

SUBMITTER: Martinez-Cardoso AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8624630 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature