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‘My tongue doesn’t believe in boundaries’: A®tivism Across the US/Mexico Border
This chapter focuses on the work of Mexican American slam poetry a®tivists who question embedded narratives about borders and separation, national...
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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in U.S. Obesity Prevalence: What Have We Learned from Demographic and Population Health Science?
In the following review, we summarize findings from two decades of demographic and population health research investigating racial/ethnic and...
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Globeville: the neighborhood that shapes the learning environment for BFLA Spanish-English Mexican Americans
Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological model is a theory of educational psychology that studies human development over time. Drawing on Bronfenbrenner’s...
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Muslim Immigrant Identifications in Mexico’s YouTube Sphere
This paper examines the expression of Muslim identity on YouTube and how these identifications are received by Mexican audiences online. Taking a...
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Educating Across Borders: The Well-Being of Students from Mexican Immigrant Families in the United States and in Mexico
Often lost in the deluge of policy opinions regarding international migration management is the development and well-being of children and youth who...
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Preface: Population Aging and the Evolution of Dementia Care
By 2025, at least one-fifth of the population of 15 countries in the Americas will be 60 or older (Pan American Health Organization, 2017). The...
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The Role of Abortion in Population Policies
Abortion policies are complex but important components of the array of policies that affect the use of contraception and other reproductive health...
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“For the Sake of All, the Poor First”: COVID-19, Mañaneras, and the Popularity of the Mexican President
This chapter presents the way in which Mexican government dealt with communication about COVID-19 and how this impacted public opinion. Particularly...
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Widowhood Status and Cognitive Function in Community-Dwelling Older Adults from the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS)
We aimed to determine the association between the duration of widowhood and cognition decline. We compared the decline observed in widowed people...
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Legal Status, Deportation, and the Health of Returned Migrants from the USA to Mexico
Since 2007, large numbers of Mexican migrants in the USA returned to Mexico voluntarily or through deportation. Theory argues that US immigration...
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The Roots of Population Health
A number of disciplines have contributed to the evolution of population health, with public health foremost among these. In some ways, population...
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Archaeological Assessment of the Coastal Areas of the Mexican State of Jalisco
This study presents an assessment of the various archaeological works conducted in the coastal areas of the Mexican state of Jalisco. Special...
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The Institutionalization of the Social Sciences in Mexico 1930–1959
The first decade of this time period was characterized by the central importance of Lazaro Cardenas’s presidency (1934–1940), including his reforms...
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The Road to Population Health: A Changing Society
The emergence of population health as a guiding force and strategic approach to addressing the health needs of a population is traced to developments...
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Aspirational Mobilities and the Gender Gap: The Experiences of Skilled Mexican Women in a Childcare-Based Cultural Exchange
This chapter explores the experiences of skilled Mexican women who provide childcare in private homes in the United States of America (USA) through a...
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The Measure of Diverse Adolescent Spirituality (MDAS) and Refined Findings from Mexican and Salvadoran Youth
The Measurement of Diverse Adolescent Spirituality (MDAS) was developed to assess adolescent spirituality and religiosity for use with diverse youth....
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Isolation and Interaction in Temporary Agricultural Labor
This article examines how isolation and the seasonality of employment both constrain and enable agricultural guest workers’ contact with outsiders....
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New Destinations and the Early Childhood Education of Mexican-Origin Children
This study examined differences in exposure to early childhood education among Mexican-origin children across Latino/a destinations. Early childhood...
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Living Better but Separated: The Emotional Impacts of the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Programme on Transmigrant Workers
Linamar Campos-Flores and Adriana Leona Rosales-Mendoza investigate the exploitative conditions of the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers...
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Population Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean: From Carmen Miró to the Montevideo Consensus
This chapter looks at the evolution of population policies in Latin America and the Caribbean during the last six decades. Policies in the region...