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

Friday, March 31 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Pasadena Room Below Lobby

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

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

59.

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

60.	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

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