The Immigrant Health Advantage: An Examination of African-Origin Black Immigrants in the United States

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Vinneau Palarino
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Immigrant Health ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black Immigrants ◽  
African Origin

The Neo/Bio/Colonial Hot Zone

1998 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Lynch
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
African Origin ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Future Role ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Hot Zone

This article explores the proliferation of nonfiction narratives which warn of an impending global pandemic of African origin. Through a reading of four texts — Richard Preston's The Hot Zone, Laurie Garrett's The Coming Plague, Richard Kaplan's The Ends of the Earth, and Jeffrey Goldberg's ‘Our Africa Problem’ — the author argues that such pandemic narratives reflect unease about the United States' current and future role in Africa or other non-Western places, after a half-century of largely unsuccessful ‘development’. Second, plague tales reflect anxieties about environmental devastation in Africa and elsewhere. The article concludes that the most frightening aspect of these contemporary ‘plague tales' is the solutions they suggest to the ‘problem’ of a coming plague.

Public Opinion on Nonwhite Underrepresentation and Racial Identity Politics in Brazil

2009 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 69-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley R. Bailey
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Sample Survey ◽  
African Origin ◽  
Class Differences ◽  
Political Preferences

AbstractBrazil has an “African-origin” population that is proportionally more than four times larger that of African Americans in the United States, but white Brazilians mostly dominate electoral politics. How do ordinary citizens explain this phenomenon? Drawing on a large-sample survey of public opinion in the state of Rio de Janeiro, this article explores perceived explanations for nonwhite underrepresentation in the political arena. It also examines attitudes toward a particular black candidate, Benedita da Silva, to discern the state ofnegroidentity politics. Most Brazilians in Rio de Janeiro cite racial prejudice to explain nonwhite exclusion, although whites do this less than nonwhites. Indicators of a racial undercurrent in political preferences suggest the importance of allegiances based on perceived common racial origins. Class is robustly associated with voting preferences, suggesting that, in contrast to the United States, class differences among nonwhites in Brazil could attenuate the success ofnegroidentity politics.

The New American Servitude

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caiti Coe
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Elder Care ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black Immigrants ◽  
Barriers To Entry ◽  
Employment Sector ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Work Affect

In our contemporary period of human mobility and global capitalism, political identifications are being configured in multiple sites beyond the nation-state. The book’s theoretical innovation is to analyze what happens at work in terms of larger processes of political belonging. In particular, it examines how the recognitions and reciprocities entailed by care work affect the political belonging of new African migrants in the United States. Care for America’s growing seniors is increasingly provided by migrants, and it is only expected to grow, as experts in health care anticipate a care crunch. Because of the demand for elder care and the low barriers to entry, new African immigrants have adopted elder care as a niche employment sector. However, elder care puts care workers into racialized, gendered and age hierarchies, and made it difficult to achieve social and economic mobility. Through working in elder care, African care workers see the United States as uninhabitable, in the sense that it does not reciprocate their labor and makes a respected personhood impossible. This book highlights a more complex process of racialization and incorporation for Black immigrants than is commonly posited.

Immigrant Health in the United States

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 611-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleanor Hall ◽  
Norma Graciela Cuellar
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Immigrant Health ◽  
The United States

Is Acculturation Always Adverse to Korean Immigrant Health in the United States?

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 510-516 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chaelin Karen Ra ◽  
Youngtae Cho ◽  
Robert A. Hummer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Immigrant Health ◽  
The United States ◽  
Korean Immigrant

Black Immigrants and Black Natives Attending Selective Colleges and Universities in the United States

2007 ◽  
Vol 113 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas S. Massey ◽  
Margarita Mooney ◽  
Kimberly C. Torres ◽  
Camille Z. Charles
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Black Immigrants ◽  
Selective Colleges
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