Sleep History and Hypertension Burden in First-Generation Chinese Migrants Settled in Italy

Data on health needs of Chinese living in the South of Europe are lacking. To compare prevalence, awareness, treatment, control, and risk factors for hypertension between Chinese migrants and Italian adults, a sample of 1200 first-generation Chinese migrants and 291 native Italians aged 35–59 years living in Prato (Italy) was recruited in a community-based participatory cross-sectional survey. Primary outcome measure was hypertension, diagnosed for blood pressure values ≥ 140/90 mmHg or current use of antihypertensive medications. Associations with exposures (including age, gender, body mass index, waist, education level, total cholesterol, and triglycerides) were examined using logistic regression. When compared with Italians, Chinese had higher hypertension prevalence (27.2% versus 21.3%,p<0.01), with comparable levels of awareness (57.4% and 48.4%) but lower treatment rates (70.6% and 90.0%, resp.). In both ethnic groups age and parental history of hypertension were predictors of awareness and treatment, body mass index being predictor of hypertension diagnosis. In Chinese participants, where the optimum cut-off point for body mass index was ≥23.9 kg/m2, the sensibility and specificity prediction for hypertension were 61.7% and 59.8%, respectively (area under the ROC curve = 0.629). Implementation of specific, culturally adapted health programs for the Chinese community is now needed.

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Female Immigrant Entrepreneurship: The Experience of Chinese Migrants to Australia

Administrative Sciences ◽

10.3390/admsci11040145 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 145

Author(s):

Margaret Patrickson ◽

Leonie Hallo

Keyword(s):

Personal Development ◽

First Generation ◽

Australian Government ◽

Immigrant Entrepreneurship ◽

Chinese Migrants ◽

Female Immigrant ◽

Female Immigrants ◽

First Generation Migrants ◽

Government Records ◽

And Control

This article reports on findings from interviews with a small group of Chinese female immigrants to Australia who have started up their own business since their arrival. Unlike most publications concerning immigration that focus upon financial factors, we have instead concentrated on their personal journeys, why they started their businesses and the benefits they sought. We interviewed thirteen participants in Adelaide who had recently arrived from China with the aim of immigrating permanently to Australia. Immigration records indicate that by 2020 this figure had risen to over 160,000 per annum. However, it dropped again quickly in 2020 following the beginning of COVID-19. Nonetheless, according to recent Australian government records, over 866,200 current Australian residents have Chinese ancestry and 74% are first-generation migrants. The primary motivators for respondents were independence and control as well as income and skill development. Respondents were also satisfied by the personal development they gained.

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LACK OF CHANGES IN FOOD BEHAVIOUR OF FIRST-GENERATION CHINESE MIGRANTS THROUGH THE YEARS OF RESIDENCE IN ITALY

Journal of Hypertension ◽

10.1097/01.hjh.0000748188.48045.c8 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 39 (Supplement 1) ◽

pp. e320

Author(s):

Pietro Amedeo Modesti ◽

Ilaria Marzotti ◽

Alessio Pellegrino ◽

Elena Ermini ◽

Alessio Bartoletti ◽

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Keyword(s):

First Generation ◽

Chinese Migrants

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Performing everyday cosmopolitanism? Uneven encounters with diversity among first generation new Chinese migrants in New Zealand

Ethnicities ◽

10.1177/1468796816671977 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 18 (5) ◽

pp. 717-734 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Bingyu Wang

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Power Relations ◽

First Generation ◽

Contact Zones ◽

Chinese Migrants ◽

Social Settings ◽

Life Challenges ◽

Intercultural Interactions ◽

Individual Self ◽

Social Demographic

Cross-cultural living experiences may lead to the development of cosmopolitanism among people who are on the move. This article critically explores this proposition in relation to first generation Chinese migrants in New Zealand, focusing on, not only their opportunities but, more importantly, the barriers they encounter in terms of performing cosmopolitanism through an analysis of their everyday intercultural interactions. The key premise is that being able to engage in cosmopolitanism is not a given result of increasing levels of cross-border mobilities or intercultural interactions but occurs through, and relates to, social structures and power relations that individuals negotiate in different social settings. By drawing insights from ‘everyday cosmopolitanism’ and ‘contact zones’, this paper explores three factors that articulate the possibilities of becoming cosmopolitan: (a) everyday cosmopolitanism in contact zones; (b) the emotional dimension of encountering others; and (c) migration and family life challenges. In doing so the paper examines how the process of becoming cosmopolitan is entangled with migrants’ social-demographic characteristics, along with their individual self-perceptions, biographies, and personal relations with others. It highlights that cosmopolitanism is socially situated, subject to multiple pressures, and enacted within the uneven power relations of society. Moreover, it demonstrates that diversity encounters are inherently emotional and cannot be understood outside of the emotional dynamics from which they emerge.

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