Friday, March 31 / 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM   •   Pasadena Room

Poster Session 6:
Migration, Urbanization, Neighborhood and Residential Context

  1. Contexts of English Language Use among First Generation Immigrants • Ilana Redstone Akresh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  2. Migration Clusters in Brazil: An Analysis of Areas of Origin and Destination • Ernesto F. Amaral, University of Texas at Austin

  3. An Analysis of the Flow of Domestic Migrants into and out of the 50 Largest Metropolitan Statistical Areas Using Administrative Records • Amy Apodaca, University of Texas at San Antonio and U.S. Census Bureau

  4. The Balance of Care: Trends in the Wages and Employment of Immigrant Nurses in the U.S. between 1990 and 2000 • Mary Arends-Kuenning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  5. In Search of an Identity: Ethnic Self-Identification among Children of Immigrants • Paula A. Arriagada, Ohio State University

  6. Sending Money Home: Colombian Contemporary Migration Social Networks and Remittance Behavior • Maria Aysa, Florida International University

  7. Doubly Disadvantaged: A Documentation of How Limited English Proficiency and Citizenship Status Compound Health Disparities in California • Ann D. Bagchi, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

  8. Race, Place, and Veteran Status: The Changing Relationship between Military Staffing Policy and Migration History • Amy K. Bailey, University of Washington

  9. A Regional Analysis of Labor Markets for Recent Mexican Immigrants in the United States • Elizabeth H Baker, Bowling Green State University

  10. Is There a Premium on Experience in the U.S.? • Sarah Bohn, University of Maryland ; Yyannu Cruz Aguayo, University of Maryland

  11. Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Immigrant Assimilation • Georgiana Bostean, University of California, Irvine

  12. Understanding Subgroup Variations of the Epidemiological Paradox • Shauna K. Carlisle, University of Washington ; David Takeuchi, University of Washington

  13. Improving the Measurement of Net International Migration for State and County Population Estimates • Katherine M. Condon, U.S. Census Bureau ; Sam T. Davis, U.S. Census Bureau

  14. The Contribution of Foreign Schools to Educational Attainment in the United States • Jessica W. Davis, U.S. Census Bureau ; Kurt J. Bauman, U.S. Census Bureau

  15. Co-residence among Migrant and Dutch Young Adults: The Family Influence Disentangled • Helga de Valk, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) ; Francesco C. Billari, Università Bocconi

  16. Properties of Social Networks for Rural-Urban Migrants in China: A Study in Shenzhen • Haifeng Du, Stanford University ; Shuzhuo Li, Xi'an Jiaotong University ; Marcus W. Feldman, Stanford University

  17. Exposing the Underbelly of Black Immigrant Success: Nativity, Ethnicity and Poverty among Black Americans • Amon Emeka, University of Southern California

  18. The Social Capital of Immigrants and Non-Immigrants in Segregated Communities in Los Angeles and Houston • Nadia Y. Flores, Texas A&M University

  19. “Girls Rule”? Schooling, Work, and Idleness among Immigrant Youth • Deborah L. Garvey, Santa Clara University

  20. Exploring the Labor Market Transitions of New Immigrants to Canada • Gustave Goldmann, Statistics Canada ; Jean Renaud, Université de Montréal

  21. A Profile of Somali Refugees in the United States • Franklin Goza, Bowling Green State University ; Elizabeth H Baker, Bowling Green State University

  22. Examining Characteristics of Post-Civil War Migrants in Ethiopia • Justin Buszin, Brown University

  23. Distance of Return and Onward Migration: Race/Ethnic Comparisons • Yan Guo, Utah State University ; E. Helen Berry, Utah State University ; Michael B. Toney, Utah State University ; Sandra T. Marquart-Pyatt, Utah State University

  24. The Evolution of Son Preference among Rural-Urban Migrants in China: Research Based on Social Network Theory • Wu Haixia, Xi'an Jiaotong University ; Xiaoyi Jin, Stanford University

  25. Immigrants and Industrialization in the American Economy, 1880 to 1920 • Charles Hirschman, University of Washington ; Elizabeth A. Mogford, University of Washington

  26. Quality Changes of Female Immigrants during 1970-2000 • Xiaohan Hu, University of Maryland

  27. Immigrant Residential Patterns in U.S. Metropolitan Areas, 1990-2000 • John Iceland, University of Maryland ; Melissa Scopilliti, University of Maryland

  28. The Effects of Changes in Geographic Coding Methods on Estimated Administrative Record Coverage, Migration Rates, and Estimates • Rodger V. Johnson, U.S. Census Bureau ; Esther R. Miller, U.S. Census Bureau ; Hyo C. Park, U.S. Census Bureau ; Barbara J. van der Vate, U.S. Census Bureau

  29. How Well Do They Compare?: Selected Characteristics of the Foreign-Born Population from the 2004 American Community Survey and the 2005 Current Population Survey • Marcella Jones, U.S. Census Bureau ; Janin Menendez, U.S. Census Bureau

  30. New Alternatives in Estimating Migration to the United States: Year of Entry- and Residence One Year Ago-Based Estimates, 2000-2004 • Alexa Kennedy-Puthoff, U.S. Census Bureau ; Renuka Bhaskar, U.S. Census Bureau

  31. Does Nativity Explain the Hispanic Paradox in Biological Risk? • Jung Ki Kim, University of Southern California ; Dawn Alley, University of Southern California ; Teresa E. Seeman, University of California, Los Angeles

  32. Ethnic Economies and Education among Immigrants and Their Children • Jennifer C. Lee, University of Minnesota

  33. Is There an Effect of Inequality on Child and Maternal Health? • Aparna Lhila, Cornell University ; Ray Swisher, Cornell University

  34. What Can the Age Composition of the Population Tell Us about the Age Composition of Migrants? • Jani S. Little, University of Colorado at Boulder ; Andrei Rogers, University of Colorado at Boulder

  35. What Happens to the ‘Healthy Immigrant Effect’: The Mental Health of Immigrants to Canada • Yimin Lou, RAND ; Roderic Beaujot, University of Western Ontario

  36. Exploratory Analysis of Height-for-Age in Guatemala: An Examination of Potential Spatial and Environmental Components • Stephen D. McCracken, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ; Paul Stupp, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

  37. Acculturation and Its Influence on the Health of Asian Americans • Hideki Morooka, University at Albany, State University of New York

  38. Environment Pollution and Its Impact on the Incidence of Morbidity and Mortality Patterns: The Case of the Mumbai Metropolitan Area of India • Dipti Kishore Nayak, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

  39. Does Place Matter? Metro Area Differences in the Gains to Human Capital for Hispanic Immigrants in the U.S. • Kyle Anne Nelson, University of Maryland ; Joan R. Kahn, University of Maryland

  40. Did 9/11 Worsen the Job Prospects of Hispanic Immigrants? • Pia Orrenius, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas ; Madeline Zavodny, Agnes Scott College

  41. Life Course Stages and Migration Behavior of the Indonesian Population • Elda L. Pardede, University of Groningen ; Salahudin S. Muhidin, Université de Montréal

  42. Domestic Net Migration in the United States: 2000 to 2004 • Marc J. Perry, U.S. Census Bureau

  43. Immigrant Parents and Their Immigrant Children in the U.S.A: A Comparative Study • Karen A Pren, Princeton University

  44. Gender Differences in Social Support Networks of China's Rural-Urban Migrants: A Whole-Network Analysis • Yike Ren, Xi'an Jiaotong University ; Haifeng Du, Stanford University

  45. A Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Immigrant Behavior in Northern Orkney, 1851-1901 • Corey S Sparks, Pennsylvania State University

  46. The New Eastern European Immigrants: Evidence from the 2000s • Mihaela Robila, Queens College

  47. The Impact of Social Networks and Human Capital on Puerto Rican and Dominican Migrants’ United States Destination Selections • Jessie A Rochford, Fordham University

  48. The Rate of Naturalization: An Update • Nancy Rytina, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ; Christopher Campbell, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

  49. Black Immigrants and Native-Born Blacks in the U.S.: Similar or Divergent Residential Patterns? • Melissa Scopilliti, University of Maryland

  50. Bringing Men In: An Analysis of Male and Female Fertility in the World, 1990-1998 • Li Zhang, Texas A&M University

  51. Patterns of Urbanization in Pakistan: A Demographic Appraisal • Safdar Ali Shirazi, University of the Punjab

  52. Preparing the International Migration Questions for the 2006 American Community Survey Content Test • Claire Shook-Finucane, U.S. Census Bureau

  53. Families across Borders: the Effects of Migration on Family Members Remaining at Home • Alexis Silver, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  54. The Stability of Neighborhood Racial/Ethnic Diversity in the United States, 1980-2000 • Sapna Swaroop, University of Chicago

  55. The Effects of Social Networks and Migration on the Health of Mexican Immigrant Mothers and their Children: A Bi-National Case Study • Theresa L. Thompson-Colón, University of Wisconsin at Madison

  56. Impact of International Migration on Mental Health Outcomes • Mark VanLandingham, Tulane University ; Hongyun Fu, Tulane University ; Dinh Tran, Tulane University

  57. Finding Community: Immigrant and Native-Born Mothers’ Perceptions of Support Networks • Catharine H. Warner, University of Maryland

  58. Mortality in Urban and Rural Areas with a High Proportion of Aboriginal Residents in Canada: Methods for Use with Administrative Data Lacking Explicit Aboriginal Identifiers. • Russell Wilkins, Statistics Canada ; Philippe Finès, Statistics Canada ; Sacha Senécal, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada ; Eric Guimond, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada

  59. Migration and the Well-Being of the Elderly in Rural China • Yue Zhuo, University at Albany, State University of New York ; Zai Liang, University at Albany, State University of New York