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Comparing clinico-demographics and neuropsychiatric symptoms for immigrant and non-immigrant aged care residents living with dementia: a retrospective cross-sectional study from an Australian dementia-specific support service

open access: yesBMC Geriatrics, 2023
Background Neuropsychiatric symptoms of dementia such as agitation and aggression are common in people living with dementia. The presentation of neuropsychiatric symptoms is influenced by the cultural background of people living with dementia.
Pelden Chejor   +5 more
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Do Immigrants Assimilate More Slowly Today than in the Past?

open access: yesAmerican Economic Review: Insights, 2020
Using millions of historical census records and modern birth certificates, we document that immigrants assimilated into US society at similar rates in the past and present. We measure cultural assimilation as immigrants giving their children less foreign
Ran Abramitzky, L. Boustan, K. Eriksson
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Tuberculosis in international immigrants: Profile and vulnerability of cases residing in the municipality of São Paulo, Brazil

open access: yesJournal of Migration and Health, 2022
Objective: To analyze the profile of immigrants with tuberculosis (TB) and to identify the associated vulnerability characteristics. Methods: A cross-sectional study which used TB-WEB data from cases residing in São Paulo in 2016 (203 immigrants and 6 ...
Denise Gonçalves   +2 more
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Las relaciones sociales en salud mental: Estudio sobre la percepción del impacto de las relaciones sociales en la mejora de la autonomía de las personas con diversidad mental y la relación con el trabajo social

open access: yesAlternativas, 2014
La Salud Mental en la actualidad centra el interés en la persona, prestando la misma atención a los factores sociales, psicológicos y físicos. La visión en la que se basa ésta investigación es la descripción del papel de las redes sociales como ...
Josep Cazorla Palomo
doaj   +1 more source

Policies of Exclusion: Implications for the Health of Immigrants and Their Children.

open access: yesAnnual Review of Public Health, 2019
Public policies play a crucial role in shaping how immigrants adapt to life in the United States. Federal, state, and local laws and administrative practices impact immigrants' access to education, health insurance and medical care, cash assistance, food
K. Perreira, J. Pedroza
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Understanding the gender gap in immigrant entrepreneurship: a multi-country study of immigrants’ embeddedness in economic, social, and institutional contexts

open access: yesSmall Business Economics, 2020
Given the rising rate of migration across the globe, immigrant entrepreneurship is more than ever a topic of high theoretical and practical relevance.
Steven A. Brieger, Michael M. Gielnik
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Immigration Amnesty and Immigrant's Earnings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
We review the role immigration amnesties have played in US immigration policy, placing them in the context of similar programs embarked upon by other nations. The theory of amnesties suggests rent-seeking, bargaining, and costs as reasons for a country offering an amnesty, often in conjunction with increased border controls, internal enforcement and ...
Ira N. Gang, Myeong-Su Yun
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Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants Part 1

open access: yes, 2001
Part one of this paper highlights how students today think and process information fundamentally differently from their predecessors, as a result of being surrounded by new technology. The author compares these “digital natives” with the older generation
M. Prensky
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Feel Good? The Dialectical Integration of International Immigrants in Rural Communities: The Case of the Canadian Prairie Provinces

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology, 2021
The increasing influx of international immigrants settling in rural communities, where their landing is expected to revitalize communities, has triggered concerns about international immigrants' adaptation and well-being. In this article, we specifically
Jennifer Dauphinais   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Do university-educated immigrants recover economically from a slow start?

open access: yesEconomic and Social Reports, 2023
The selection of highly educated immigrants is based in part on the premise that they can better adapt to the labour market and will have, on average, better economic outcomes than less-educated immigrants.
Garnett Picot, Feng Hou, Eden Crossman
doaj   +1 more source

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