Journal article
Environmental inequality and pollution advantage among immigrants in the United States
Applied geography (Sevenoaks), v 81, pp 60-69
01 Apr 2017
PMID: 28484286
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Abstract
Environmental inequality scholarship has paid little attention to the disproportional exposure of immigrants in the United States (U.S.) to unfavorable environmental conditions. This study investigates whether new international migrants in the U.S. are exposed to environmental hazards and how this pattern varies among immigrant subpopulations (e.g., Hispanics, Asian, European). We combine sociodemographic information from the American Community Survey with toxicity-weighted chemical concentrations (Toxics Release Inventory) to model the relationship between toxin exposure and the relative population of recent immigrants across Public Use Microdata Areas (PUMAs, n = 2054) during 2005-2011. Results from spatial panel models show that immigrants tend to be less exposed to toxins, suggesting resilience instead of vulnerability. This pattern was pronounced among immigrants from Europe and Latin America (excluding Mexico). However, our results revealed that Mexican immigrants are disproportionately exposed to environmental hazards in wealthy regions. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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- Title
- Environmental inequality and pollution advantage among immigrants in the United States
- Creators
- Maryia Bakhtsiyarava - University of MinnesotaRaphael J. Nawrotzki - University of Minnesota
- Publication Details
- Applied geography (Sevenoaks), v 81, pp 60-69
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Number of pages
- 10
- Grant note
- R24 HD041023 / Minnesota Population Center through Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development ACI-0940818 / National Science Foundation (NSF) 0940818 / Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC); Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr; National Science Foundation (NSF); NSF - Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Urban Health Collaborative
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000398753500007
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85014384163
- Other Identifier
- 991021966872104721
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