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PARA-MOR (ERC/UKRI) @para-mor-ukri.bsky.social · 13d

New article out in the British Medical Bulletin from the PARA-MOR team:

Long lives, poor health? A comprehensive review of the evidence among international migrants | British Medical Bulletin | Oxford Academic

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#migration #health #inequality #mortality

Long lives, poor health? A comprehensive review of the evidence among international migrants

AbstractIntroduction. Empirical evidence on migrant morbidity suggests that migrant populations have a higher burden of disease compared to non-migrants in

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PARA-MOR (ERC/UKRI) @para-mor-ukri.bsky.social · Jun 18

📢 We are hiring! 📢

Are you a UK home student with (or nearing) a Master's degree in Demography, Public Health, Sociology or a related discipline? Do you have a strong interest in ethnicity and inequality? 📈🌍

If so, come and do a PhD @salforduni.bsky.social!

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Living longer in worse health? Understanding the immigrant morbidity-mortality paradox in the U.K. at University of Salford on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Living longer in worse health? Understanding the immigrant morbidity-mortality paradox in the U.K. at University of Salford, listed on FindAPhD.com

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PARA-MOR (ERC/UKRI) @para-mor-ukri.bsky.social · Jun 9

Welcome to PARA-MOR @jharrison37.bsky.social! (5/5)

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PARA-MOR (ERC/UKRI) @para-mor-ukri.bsky.social · Jun 9

He's also published on other migrant outcomes, including union formation and fertility among Pakistani and Bangladeshi migrants and the children of migrants in the U.K. www.jstor.org/stable/48728... (4/5)

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PARA-MOR (ERC/UKRI) @para-mor-ukri.bsky.social · Jun 9

@jharrison37.bsky.social has previously published on cancer mortality among Pakistani and Bangladeshi migrants and the children of migrants in England and Wales link.springer.com/article/10.1... (3/5)

All-cancer incidence and mortality in Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, and their descendants in England and Wales - BMC Public Health

Background This paper identifies differences in all-cancer incidence and mortality between Pakistani-born (PB), Bangladeshi-born (BB), their descendants, and the White British (WB) in England and Wale...

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PARA-MOR (ERC/UKRI) @para-mor-ukri.bsky.social · Jun 9

Joe completed his PhD at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social in the area of migrant health and has been working for the past year on the massive @erc.europa.eu funded @migrantlife.bsky.social project. He's so good that he'll also remain involved in "Migrant Life" until 2026. (2/5)

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PARA-MOR (ERC/UKRI) @para-mor-ukri.bsky.social · Jun 9

The PARA-MOR project is super delighted to welcome @jharrison37.bsky.social as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow! @salforduni.bsky.social @uos-health-society.bsky.social (1/5)

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PARA-MOR (ERC/UKRI) @para-mor-ukri.bsky.social · Apr 28

Welcome, @vergeles.bsky.social ! (4/4)

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PARA-MOR (ERC/UKRI) @para-mor-ukri.bsky.social · Apr 28

@vergeles.bsky.social will be with us for a while. During her stay we will work closely together on a multi-country comparative paper focusing on migration, mortality, and inequality. (3/4)

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PARA-MOR (ERC/UKRI) @para-mor-ukri.bsky.social · Apr 28

@vergeles.bsky.social is completing a joint PhD between UCLouvain and VUB within the large-scale INEQKILL project (www.ineqkill.be). She has a Bachelor's degree in biological anthropology and Master's degree in demography. (2/4)

INEQKILL - How Inequality Kills

INEQKILL is an interdisciplinary research project on how inequality kills using all-cause and cause-specific mortality in Belgium (1800-2025).

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PARA-MOR (ERC/UKRI) @para-mor-ukri.bsky.social · Apr 28

The PARA-MOR project would like to welcome Marina Vergeles @vergeles.bsky.social to the School of Health and Society @uos-health-society.bsky.social ! brispo.research.vub.be/en/marina-ve... (1/4)

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PARA-MOR (ERC/UKRI) @para-mor-ukri.bsky.social · Apr 22

We're are beyond excited to have her on board here and look forward to doing some brilliant migrant health research together! 🌍📈💯 #migration #health #inequality #society

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PARA-MOR (ERC/UKRI) @para-mor-ukri.bsky.social · Apr 22

Here's another:

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Neighbourhood socioeconomic conditions and emergency admissions for ambulatory care sensitive conditions in children: a longitudinal ecological analysis in England, 2012–2017

Ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSCs) are those for which hospital admission could be prevented by interventions in primary care. Children living in socioeconomic disadvantage have higher rates...

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PARA-MOR (ERC/UKRI) @para-mor-ukri.bsky.social · Apr 22

She's has produced a couple of really cool papers so far.

Here's one:

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Coming in hot: a qualitative investigation into perceptions of parents and doctors of reasons for the presentation of children with fever to the emergency department in England

Paediatric emergency department (ED) attendances and admissions in England are increasing. Fever is a common presenting problem for these attendances. Anxiety and misperceptions surrounding appropriat...

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PARA-MOR (ERC/UKRI) @para-mor-ukri.bsky.social · Apr 22

Courtney completed her PhD at the University of Liverpool on addressing inequalities in childhood febrile illness associated with paediatric emergency department attendance in Liverpool. sphr.nihr.ac.uk/research/add...

Addressing inequalities in childhood febrile illness associated with paediatric emergency department attendance in Liverpool. - NIHR School for Public Health Research

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PARA-MOR (ERC/UKRI) @para-mor-ukri.bsky.social · Apr 22

The PARA-MOR project would like to welcome our new postdoctoral research fellow Dr #CourtneyFranklin to the project!

Welcome, Courtney! @uos-health-society.bsky.social

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PARA-MOR (ERC/UKRI) @para-mor-ukri.bsky.social · Jan 7

Still ONE more week left to apply for one of THREE wonderful postdoc positions on the ERC / UKRI project "Living Longer in Poorer Health? Understanding the Migrant Health Paradox". 3-years FT, great benefits, great university! Start 2025 off with a 💥 !

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Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Application Deadline: 12/01/2025, 23:55

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PARA-MOR (ERC/UKRI) @para-mor-ukri.bsky.social · Dec 17

In light of these fascinating patterns, and with absolute and relative proportions of migrants and their children substantial and rising in Sweden and elsewhere, we call for the separate monitoring of life expectancy in these groups in order to maximize potential future national gains in e0. (7/7)

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PARA-MOR (ERC/UKRI) @para-mor-ukri.bsky.social · Dec 17

In the online supplementary materials, we add further nuance by looking at (a) the separate impact of children with one versus two migrant parents among the second-generation and (b) granular combinations of generation by origin by age impacts on national life expectancy in Sweden. (6/7)

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PARA-MOR (ERC/UKRI) @para-mor-ukri.bsky.social · Dec 17

Finally, by specific origins, despite profound changes in the generation-level patterns, non-Western migrants always have a positive effect upon national e0 in Sweden, while Nordic migrants always have a negative effect. Among their children, all origins tend to negatively affect national e0. (5/7)

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PARA-MOR (ERC/UKRI) @para-mor-ukri.bsky.social · Dec 17

Delving into these generational differences by age, the transformation in impact of migrants on national e0 from negative to positive is driven by young adult migrants. An increasingly negative impact of the children of migrants on national e0 is driven by infancy and young adulthood. (4/7)

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PARA-MOR (ERC/UKRI) @para-mor-ukri.bsky.social · Dec 17

When we decompose these differences by generation we find interesting differences. An initial (larger) negative impact of migrants on national e0 reverses over time. Among the children of migrants, an initial (smaller) negative effect of migrants on national e0 grows over time. (3/7)

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PARA-MOR (ERC/UKRI) @para-mor-ukri.bsky.social · Dec 17

In 1990, the combined life expectancy (e0) at birth of migrants and their children is lower than non-migrants, notably among men. This has a negative effect upon national e0 in Sweden. Over time, their e0 rises at a faster rate than non-migrants, leading to a reduction of these differences. (2/7)

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PARA-MOR (ERC/UKRI) @para-mor-ukri.bsky.social · Dec 17

In this PARA-MOR article recently published in #SocialScience&MedicinePopulationHealth, @sd.de and I aim to quantify and unpack the impact of the mortality patterns of migrants and the children of migrants on national life expectancy patterns and trends in Sweden. (1/7)

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PARA-MOR (ERC/UKRI) @para-mor-ukri.bsky.social · Dec 14

In this first *PARA-MOR* working paper @mjwdemography.bsky.social reviews evidence regarding whether international migrants are living longer lives in worse health. He outlines areas of agreement and controversy, future research directions, and policy recommendations. su.figshare.com/articles/pre...

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