Children of Immigrants : Health, Adjustment, and Public Assistance

Immigrant children and youth are the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population, and so their prospects bear heavily on the well-being of the country.

Children of Immigrants represents some of the very best and most extensive research efforts to date on the circumstances, health, and development of children in immigrant families and the delivery of health and social services to these children and their families. This book presents new, detailed analyses of more than a dozen existing datasets that constitute a large share of the national system for monitoring the health and well-being of the U.S. population. Prior to these new analyses, few of these datasets had been used to assess the circumstances of children in immigrant families.

The analyses enormously expand the available knowledge about the physical and mental health status and risk behaviors, educational experiences and outcomes, and socioeconomic and demographic circumstances of first- and second-generation immigrant children, compared with children with U.S.-born parents. Table of ContentsFront Matter1 Children of Immigrants: Health, Adjustment, and Public Assistance2 Socioeconomic and Demographic Risk Factors and Resources AmongChildren in Immigrant and Native-Born Families: 1910, 1960, and19903 Access to Health Insurace and Health Care for Children inImmigrant FamiliesThe Health and Nutritional Status of Immigrant Hispanic Children:Analyses of the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey5 Immigration and Infant Health: Birth Outcomes of Immigrant andNative-Born Women6 The Health Status and Risk Behaviors of Adolescents in ImmigrantFamilies7 Educational Profile of 3- to 8-Year-Old Children and Immigrants8 Psychological Well-Being and Educational Achievement AmongImmigrant Youth9 Passages to Adulthood: The Adaptation on Children of Immigrantsin Southern California10 Receipt of Public Assistance by Mexican American and CubanAmerican Children in Native and Immigrant Families11 Receipt of Public Assistance by Immigrant Children and TheirFamilies: Evidence from the Survey of Income and ProgramParticipation12 Children in Immigrant and Nonimmigrant Farmworker Families:Findings from the National Agricultural Workers SurveyOther Reports from the Board on Children, Youth, and Families