“No, but where are you really from?” Experiences of perceived discrimination and identity development among Asian Indian adolescents by Asha K. Unni, Jamilia J. Blake, Phia S. Salter, Wen Luo, Jeffrey Liew

“…Asian Indians were the first South Asians to immigrate to the United States in the late 1800s and are currently the largest ethnic group of South Asians living in the United States. …”
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?We All Have Strengths?: A Retrospective Qualitative Evaluation of a Resilience Training for Latino Immigrants in Philadelphia, PA by Jamile Tellez Lieberman, Krystal Lobban, Zujeil Flores, Kristin Giordano, Emily Nolasco-Barrientos, Yoshiaki Yamasaki, Ana P. Martinez-Donate

“…Participants were primed by past experiences of violence, as well as by daily struggles they encounter as Latino immigrants in the United States amid worsening anti-immigrant rhetoric and policy. …”
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Understanding Mexican immigrant students in American schools: A case study of two Preparatorias in México by Marcela de Souza

“…This article presents data from a three-phase qualitative study designed to learn about the most prevalent pedagogical and institutional practices in public schools in México, the largest source of immigrants to the United States. The study sought to answer the following overarching questions: (1) What are the most prevalent current teaching and institutional practices in Mexican schools at the senior high school level? …”
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2171 Exploring the relationships between acculturation, discrimination and function in older African immigrants: A dissertation study by Manka Nkimbeng, Yvonne Commodore-Mensah, Sarah Szanton

“…The effect of these on functional disability in older African immigrants in the United States is not well understood. The purpose of this study is to describe and examine the experiences of acculturation, racial discrimination and functional disability in older African immigrants. …”
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All Immigrants Are Not Alike: Intersectionality Matters in Views of Immigrant Groups by Özge Savaş, Ronni M. Greenwood, Benjamin T. Blankenship, Abigail J. Stewart, Kay Deaux

“…In two studies, we investigated how intersecting social categories shape views of immigrants in the United States. In Study 1, we analyzed 310 attributes generated by 92 participants for the category of immigrant and 30 additional immigrant groups with intersecting social categories (e.g. …”
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Familiarity, Preference, and Utilization of Ethnic Items Among Asian Americans by Gwi-Ryung Son Hong, RN, PhD

“…The purpose was to determine whether Asian Americans are still seeking familiar and preferred ethnic items and whether they are using them in daily life after they have immigrated to the United States. Methods: A descriptive exploratory study design was used. …”
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Pelvic and central nervous system tuberculosis complicated by a paradoxical response manifesting as a spinal tuberculoma: a case report by Arya Zandvakili, Takaaki Kobayashi, Quanhathai Kaewpoowat, Meredith G. Parsons, Bradley Ford, Jason H. Barker, Melinda Johnson

“…Case presentation A healthy 26-year-old female with a history of recent miscarriage presented to the emergency department with non-specific symptoms of headache, abdominal pain, and sub-acute fevers. She had immigrated to the United States from the Marshall Islands 9 years prior. …”
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Use of multiplex allele-specific polymerase chain reaction (MAS-PCR) to detect multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Panama. by Bing-Shao Chia, Fedora Lanzas, Dalin Rifat, Aubrey Herrera, Elizabeth Y Kim, Christine Sailer, Edith Torres-Chavolla, Purvaja Narayanaswamy, Viktor Einarsson, Jaime Bravo, Juan M Pascale, Thomas R Ioerger, James C Sacchettini, Petros C Karakousis

“…The frequency of individual genetic mutations conferring drug resistance (DR) to Mycobacterium tuberculosis has not been studied previously in Central America, the place of origin of many immigrants to the United States. The current gold standard for detecting multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is phenotypic drug susceptibility testing (DST), which is resource-intensive and slow, leading to increased MDR-TB transmission in the community. …”
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Reworking the city of workers : a new housing paradigm for the immigrant city by Butler, Britta Erika, 1974-

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Need for Culturally Competent and Responsive Cancer Education for African Immigrant Families and Youth Living in the United States by Olufunmilola Abraham, Adeola Agoke, Kazeem Sanuth, Abimbola Fapohunda, Motolani Ogunsanya, Megan Piper, Amy Trentham-Dietz

“…For instance, African immigrants constitute a meaningful proportion of the foreign-born Black immigrants in the United States (42%), but the prevalence of cancer in the African immigrant community itself is unknown. …”
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Convenient Liaisons: Brazilian Immigration/Emigration and the Spatial-relationships of Religious Networks by Alan P. Marcus

“…Respondents’ inter-relationships with religious practices provide important glimpses and insights into their idealizations, expectations and conflicts among and between Brazilian immigrants in the United States and returnees in Brazil. I conducted fieldwork research in four locations in two receiving communities: (1) Framingham, Massachusetts (an older destination), and, (2) Marietta, Georgia, (a more recent destination) both in the United States, and; (3) Governador Valadares, in the state of Minas Gerais and (4) Piracanjuba, in the state of Goiás - two sending communities in Brazil. …”
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Firearm Possession Rates in Home Countries and Firearm Suicide Rates Among US- and Foreign-Born Suicide Decedents in the United States: Analysis of Combined Data from the National... by In Han Song, Jin Hyuk Lee, Jee Soo Shin

“…However, little research has been conducted on the relationship between cultural backgrounds and suicide by firearms, specifically in those born and raised in the United States compared to those who have immigrated to the United States. ObjectiveTo better understand the relationship between cultural backgrounds and suicide, this study aimed to examine firearm suicide rates among US- and foreign-born suicide decedents based on the firearm possession rate in the decedent’s home country. …”
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Disparities in Awareness of Myocardial Infarction and Stroke Symptoms and Response Among United States– and Foreign‐Born Adults in the National Health Interview Survey by Ivy Mannoh, Ruth‐Alma Turkson‐Ocran, Jasmine Mensah, Danielle Mensah, Stella S. Yi, Erin D. Michos, Yvonne Commodore‐Mensah

“…Conclusions These findings suggest a disparity in MI and stroke symptom awareness and response among immigrants in the United States. Culturally tailored public health education and health literacy initiatives are needed to help reduce these disparities in awareness.…”
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Three empirical essays on investment in physical and human capital by Bleakley, C. Hoyt (Crawford Hoyt), 1972-

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The Association between Stress Measured by Allostatic Load Score and Physiologic Dysregulation in African Immigrants: The Africans in America Study by Brianna A Bingham, Michelle T Duong, Madia Ricks, Lilian S Mabundo, Rafeal L Baker, Jean N Utumatwishima, Margaret Udahogora, David Berrigan, Anne E Sumner

“…As immigration is stressful, ALS could be affected.Objective: Associations of age of immigration, reason for immigration and unhealthy assimilation behavior with ALS were determined in 238 African immigrants to the United States (US) (age 40±10, mean±SD, range 21-64y). …”
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Online Health Information Seeking and Preventative Health Actions: Cross-Generational Online Survey Study by Jayati Sinha, Nuket Serin

“…MethodsA preregistered online survey was conducted on the Prolific online data collection platform using stratified sampling of 2 generations (digital natives and digital immigrants) from the United States in November 2023. Overall, 3 types of OHIS were collected: health wellness information search, health guidance information search, and health management information search. …”
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Interbirth Intervals of Immigrant and Refugee Women in the United States: A Cross-Sectional Study by Comfort Z. Olorunsaiye, Larissa R. Brunner Huber, Samira P. Ouedraogo

“…Results: Approximately 37.4% of study participants had a short interbirth interval.Women who immigrated to the United States for educational (aOR = 4.57; 95% CI, 1.57–9.58) or employment opportunities (aOR = 2.27; 95% CI, 1.07–5.31) had higher odds of reporting a longer interbirth interval (19–35 or ≥36 months) than women born in the United States. …”
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WeChat-Based Intervention for Chinese Immigrants With Hypertension: Development and Evaluation Study by Wen-Wen Li, Prisca Toh

“… BackgroundDespite Chinese immigrants having a higher or comparable proportion of hypertension (HTN) compared to non-Hispanic White and Hispanic individuals, there are no effective technology-based intervention studies that target HTN management in Chinese immigrants in the United States. ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to develop and pilot-test the efficacy of a culturally and linguistically sensitive social media–based intervention (WeChat) for Chinese immigrants to improve blood pressure (BP) control, antihypertensive medication adherence, and self-efficacy. …”
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LIETUVIŠKŲ SAKINIŲ SINTAKSINĖ TVARKA IR JŲ PRISIMINIMAS by Algis Norvilas, Jurgita Ačienė

“…The participants in the study were 72 native Lithuanian speakers who had recently immigrated to the United States. They were told that they would be asked to read a list of sentences and afterwards try to remember as many of them as possible. …”
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2047 Mental illness public stigma, culture, and acculturation among Vietnamese Americans by Mai Do, Jennifer McCleary, Diem Nguyen, Keith Winfrey

“…Stratification was used to ensure representation in the following age/immigration pattern categories: (1) individuals age 56–75 who were born and grew up in Vietnam and immigrated to the United States after age 35; (2) individuals age 36–55 who were born in Vietnam but spent a significant part of their youth in the United States; and (3) individuals age 18–35 who were born and grew up in the United States. …”
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