Health Selectivity and SES-Health Gradients in Mexico-U.S. Migration and Return: A Bi-National Perspective on Older Adults
Center for U.S. - Mexican Studies
Fernando Riosmena
Visiting Fellow
at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies
May 14, 2008
3:30 p.m.
Location: Institute of the Americas: Deutz Conference Room
Open to: Public
Fernando Riosmena is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Currently, he is a visiting fellow at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies. He received his B.A. in Marketing from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), Guadalajara, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests intersect the fields of formal and social demography with an emphasis on how demographic processes are associated with the social mobility, well-being, and development in Latin American societies and immigrant communities from said region in the United States. He has done work on the formal demography of labor migration; the role of social ties and their legal status in explaining inter-country differences in US migration dynamics in Latin America; and the association between migration and other life course events. Besides these issues, Fernando is currently doing research on the health selectivity of U.S.-bound and return migration of Mexicans while looking at differences between self-reported measures and clinical reports, and the potential role of ecological conditions (i.e. health and socioeconomic characteristics) in origins.
Part of the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies Research Seminar Series.
There is no cost of admission. Event is open to the public. For driving directions, please visit the Center’s website. For additional information, call Mr. Greg Mallinger at (858) 822-1696 or e-mail.
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