Negative Acculturation and Nothing More? Cumulative Disadvantage and Mortality during the Immigrant Adaptation Process among Latinos in the United States

• DOI: 10.1111/imre.12102
• Publication Date: 2014-05-21T01:51:46Z
• Authors: Fernando Riosmena; Bethany G. Everett; Richard G. Rogers; Jeff A. Dennis
• Keywords: Acculturation; Disadvantage; Mainstream

Foreign- and U.S.-born Hispanic health deteriorates with increasing exposure acculturation to mainstream U.S. society. Because these associations are robust (static) socioeconomic controls, negative has become their primary explanation. This overemphasis, however, neglected important alternative structural explanations. Examining mortality using the 1998–2006 National Health Interview Survey-Linked Mortality File according nativity, immigrant adaptation measures, behaviors, this study presents indirect but compelling evidence that suggests is not only or main explanation for deterioration.