New study (w/ Hui Zheng) finds that among US-born older adults, Asian Americans are no longer the healthiest racial group.
This is because disability prevalence has declined for *every other racial group* since 2005, but not for Asian Americans.
#AAPI
Totally agree with this. Flying a person to a third country that they may never have been to, directly into a prison where they are going to be forced to do hard labor, is not a deportation; it's something else entirely.
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Does anyone have recommended readings to understand how causes of death are attributed, coded, and/or analyzed? Bonus points for e.g., medical sociological/anthropological takes into these practices. Thanks in advance.
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Heyyyyy, Altmetric is here! Bluesky's got the juice!
Finally, a huge thanks to PDR's anonymous reviewers, Editors, as well as D. Cook-Martín, D. Massey, F. Garip, E. Hamilton, R. Zenteno, C. Sue, M. Chen, C. García Hernández, G. Peri, R. Bell-Martin, D. FitzGerald, and H. Postel.
I hope the clarifications, refinements, & widening of theories, the amended typology, & proposed taxonomy to organize mechanism interrelation further improve understanding of the attribution of the likely causes of (im)mobility around the globe today, in the past, & future. (9/n)
Third, scholarship has advanced little in systematically examining whether/how theories relate to each other. I provide a basic taxonomy of mechanism “competition,” “coexistence,” co-occurrence, and interrelation, depicted in Figure. (8/n)
Second, the most common typology used to categorize frameworks into “initiation” and “continuation” suffers from ambiguity and imprecision. I offer a new classification, typifying mechanisms as more/less endogenous to prior migrations, illustrated below. (7/n)
ngaging with classical and contemporary scholarship, I provide an updated, revised, and broadened set of frameworks and analytical lenses that better incorporate these issues. My proposed expanded analytical lenses in Figure. See article for spec refinements & critiques. (6/n)
Spatial considerations = immobility, whether theories can differentially explain international vs. international movement, as well as step/onward/secondary migrations.
Temporal considerations = return migration, its timing, and intentionality. (5/n)
First, sets of theories had not explicitly addressed: (i) key motivations beyond “labor” ; (ii) how axes of social diff produce distinct motivations & mechanisms; (iii) the (in)direct roles of the state; & (iv) important spatial and temporal considerations. (4/n)
Migration theorizing has coalesced around sets encompassing several frameworks, identical to or similar to those in the Figure below. Despite many contributions of these collections, I argue that contemporary migration theorizing exhibits three important shortcomings. (3/n)
The article reflects on migration theorizing, particularly in terms of the way scholars have elaborated, refined, and deployed sets of theories (as opposed to one single analytical framework), identifying some issues in need of improvement, and proposing solutions.
I am proud (and relieved, really) to announce the publication of my article “Worlds in Motion Redux? Expanding Migration Theories and Their Interconnections,” on
Population and Development Review (1/n)
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Does anyone have recommended readings to understand how causes of death are attributed, coded, and/or analyzed? Bonus points for e.g., medical sociological/anthropological takes into these practices. Thanks in advance.
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Will do a thread soon, when I am not buried under, whatever all this paperwork and to-dos are...
I'm going to use my first (bluesie? blueskysie?) wisely. This feels like moving into a new place that is sparsely furnished. Maybe I'll be opening a bottle of prosecco later and toast to new beginnings.