Migration and Health: Effects of Migration on Health of Those Who Stay Behind

In this video we look at the effects of migration on healthcare access and health outcomes of the family members to stay behind in the country.

Links
Who is a Migrant?
   • Who is a migrant?  
What are remittances? Understanding Remittances Basics
   • What are remittances? Understanding R...  
Effects of Migration in Migrant Countries of Origin
   • Effects of Migration in Migrant Count...  
Healthy Migrant Effect
   • Healthy Migrant Effect, Hispanic Para...  

Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:46 Key Terms & Mechanisms
2:40 Monetary Remittance Effects
4:30 Migration Effects
5:37 Spillover Effects
7:02 Wrap-up

References
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Amuedo-Dorantes, C. and Pozo, S. (2011) ‘New evidence on the role of remittances on healthcare expenditures by Mexican households’, Review of Economics of the Household, 9(1), pp. 69–98.
Antón, J.-I. (2010) ‘The Impact of Remittances on Nutritional Status of Children in Ecuador1’, International Migration Review, 44(2), pp. 269–299. doi: 10.1111/j.1747-7379.2010.00806.x.
Beine, M., Docquier, F. and Schiff, M. (2013) ‘International migration, transfer of norms and home country fertility: International migration, transfer of norms’, Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d’économique, 46(4), pp. 1406–1430. doi: 10.1111/caje.12062.
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Graham, E. and Jordan, L. P. (2011) ‘Migrant Parents and the Psychological Well-Being of Left-Behind Children in Southeast Asia’, Journal of Marriage and the Family, 73(4), pp. 763–787. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2011.00844.x.
Riosmena, F. et al. (2012) ‘U.S. Migration, Translocality, and the Acceleration of the Nutrition Transition in Mexico’, Annals of the Association of American Geographers. Association of American Geographers, 102(5), pp. 1209–1218. doi: 10.1080/00045608.2012.659629.
Siegel, M. (2020) “Migration and Health” in Bastia, Tanja & Ronald Skeldon, Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development, Routledge. www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Migration-…
Siegel, M. (2021) “Remittances, health access and outcomes” in Galea, S., Ettman, C. and Zaman, M. Migration and Health, University of Chicago Press.
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Vanore, M. et al. (2018) ‘Adult Child Migration and Elderly Multidimensional Well-Being: Comparative Analysis Between Moldova and Georgia’, Research on Aging, 40(7), pp. 599–622. doi: 10.1177/0164027517723077.

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