A life-course perspective on legal status stratification and health.

ABSTRACT: Scholars have expressed growing interest in the relationship between legal status stratification and health. Nevertheless, the extant research often lacks theoretical underpinnings. We propose the life-course perspective as a theoretical lens with which to understand relationships between legal status stratification and health outcomes. In particular, the life-course perspective guides researchers׳ attention to historical contexts that have produced differential social, political, and economic outcomes for immigrants based on legal status, and to the potentially long-term and intergenerational relationships between legal status stratification and health. We review four key dimensions of the life-course perspective and make recommendations for future directions in public health research on

SUBMITTER: Torres JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5757916 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature