TY - JOUR
T1 - U.S. Migration, Translocality, and the Acceleration of the Nutrition Transition in Mexico
AU - Riosmena, Fernando
AU - Frank, Reanne
AU - Akresh, Ilana Redstone
AU - Kroeger, Rhiannon A.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported in part by Grant R24-HD058484 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded to The Ohio State University Initiative in Population Research. We also acknowledge administrative and computing support from the NICHD-funded Population Center at the University of Colorado. We thank Nancy Mann for her helpful editing suggestions and Pablo Ibarraran for sharing the maquiladora data used in the article.
PY - 2012/9
Y1 - 2012/9
N2 - Migrant flows are generally accompanied by extensive social, economic, and cultural links between origins and destinations, transforming the former's community life, livelihoods, and local practices. Previous studies have found a positive association between these translocal ties and better child health and nutrition. We contend that focusing on children only provides a partial view of a larger process affecting community health, accelerating the nutrition transition in particular. We use a Mexican nationally representative survey with socioeconomic, anthropometric, and biomarker measures, matched to municipal-level migration intensity and marginalization measures from the Mexican 2000 Census to study the association between adult body mass and community migration intensity. Our findings from multilevel models suggest a significant and positive relationship between community-level migration intensity and the individual risk of being overweight and obese, with significant differences by gender and with remittance intensity playing a preponderant role.
AB - Migrant flows are generally accompanied by extensive social, economic, and cultural links between origins and destinations, transforming the former's community life, livelihoods, and local practices. Previous studies have found a positive association between these translocal ties and better child health and nutrition. We contend that focusing on children only provides a partial view of a larger process affecting community health, accelerating the nutrition transition in particular. We use a Mexican nationally representative survey with socioeconomic, anthropometric, and biomarker measures, matched to municipal-level migration intensity and marginalization measures from the Mexican 2000 Census to study the association between adult body mass and community migration intensity. Our findings from multilevel models suggest a significant and positive relationship between community-level migration intensity and the individual risk of being overweight and obese, with significant differences by gender and with remittance intensity playing a preponderant role.
KW - Mexico
KW - international migration
KW - nutrition transition
KW - obesity
KW - translocality
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U2 - 10.1080/00045608.2012.659629
DO - 10.1080/00045608.2012.659629
M3 - Article
C2 - 22962496
AN - SCOPUS:84864563181
SN - 0004-5608
VL - 102
SP - 1209
EP - 1218
JO - Annals of the Association of American Geographers
JF - Annals of the Association of American Geographers
IS - 5
ER -