MIGRATION AND COGNITIVE HEALTH DISPARITIES: THE ARAB AMERICAN AND REFUGEE CASE
Tala Al-Rousan, Alison Moore, Alissa Bernstein Sideman, Kristine Ajrouch, Lily Kamalyan · 2024
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Tala Al-Rousan, Alison Moore, Alissa Bernstein Sideman, Kristine Ajrouch, and Lily Kamalyan study migration and thinking health in Arab Americans in a 2024 paper. Nineteen years of American Community Survey data cover nearly four hundred thousand people aged fifty and over. The team asks whether arrival year and birthplace shape later cognitive difficulty.
Foreign-born Arabs report higher odds of difficulty than US-born Arabs in raw comparisons. After income and integration factors are counted, the pattern splits by arrival period. Weak English strongly raises the odds. Migrants born in Iraq report the highest odds in every arrival group, a pattern the authors link to war displacement.
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| CREATOR | Tala Al-Rousan, Alison Moore, Alissa Bernstein Sideman, Kristine Ajrouch, Lily Kamalyan |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |