Research suggests that immigrants from the English-speaking Caribbean surpass the earnings
of US-born blacks approximately one decade after arriving in the United States. Using …

Previous work suggests that regional variation in pre-migration exposure to racism and
discrimination, measured by a region's racial composition, predicts differences in individual-level …

I review the literature on the social integration of black immigrants residing in the United
States between 1910 and 2018, with the goal of highlighting how the growth of the black …

This paper evaluates whether immigrants’ initial health advantage over their US-born
counterparts results primarily from characteristics correlated with their birth countries (eg, …

A large literature has documented that Hispanic immigrants have a health advantage over
their US-born counterparts upon arrival in the United States. Few studies, however, have …

… , sociologist and demographer Tod Hamilton shows how … Hamilton demonstrates that
immigration from the Caribbean … Hamilton further finds that rates of marriage and labor force …

BACKGROUND Maternal education-infant health gradients are flatter among foreign-born
mothers than US-born mothers; However, because common metrics of infant health are less …

Since the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, significant growth of the
foreign-born population has reshaped the ethnic and racial landscape of the United States (…

Objective Black immigrants in the United States migrate from a diverse set of countries,
including countries in the Caribbean, Central America, South America, Europe, and Africa. This …

Using data from the 2000 US census and the 2010 to 2014 waves of the American
Community Survey, we examine the importance of occupational niches in explaining earnings …