Barrios and Burbs: Residential Context and Health-Risk Behaviors among Angeleno Adolescents

Author:

Frank Reanne1,Cerdá Magdalena2,Rendón Maria3

Affiliation:

1. Reanne Frank is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Ohio State University. Her research examines the ways in which demographic outcomes are influenced by the migration process, with specific attention to the case of the U.S.-Mexico migration flow. Current projects focus on the role of changing immigrant settlement patterns and different social contexts in influencing the health and well-being of first-, second-, and later-generation immigrants in the United States. More recently, her research has...

2. Magdalena Cerdá is a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar at the University of Michigan. She is currently investigating the ways in which local social and economic environments influence youth risk-behavior trajectories, particularly violence and substance use. She is also interested in exploring how local contexts influence the probability of transition between behaviors at key developmental turning points, such as entries into middle school, high school, and young adulthood. She is conducting...

3. Maria Rendón is a doctoral candidate in Sociology and Social Policy at Harvard University. She is currently conducting field research for her dissertation in Los Angeles. Her study focuses on young adult male children of Mexican immigrants and their outlooks and decisions regarding school and work as they transition into adulthood. She is also conducting research for the Three-City Ethnographic Study of the Moving to Opportunity demonstration program, where she has analyzed the relationship between...

Abstract

The increasing size of the Latino immigrant population in the United States underscores the need for a more complete understanding of the role that social context plays in influencing the health of immigrants and their children. This analysis explores the possibility that residential location influences the health-risk behaviors of Latino youth in Los Angeles County, California. The data come from the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey. We apply multivariate, multilevel Rasch models to two scales of adolescent health-risk behaviors (substance use and delinquency). The findings suggest that residence in Census tracts characterized by above-county-average levels of Latinos and above-county-average levels of poverty is associated with increased odds of health-risk behaviors for Latino adolescents, particularly for those born in the United States. The findings lend support to the contention, put forth in the segmented assimilation literature, that disadvantaged urban contexts increase the risk that U.S.-born children of immigrants will experience downward assimilation.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Social Psychology

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