Old-age disability and wealth among return Mexican migrants from the United States.
OBJECTIVE
To examine the old-age consequences of international migration with a focus on disability and wealth from the perspective of the origin country.


METHODS
Analysis sample includes persons aged 60+ from the Mexican Health and Aging Study, a national survey of older adults in Mexico in 2001. Univariate methods are used to present a comparative profile of return migrants. Multivariate models are estimated for physical disability and wealth.


RESULTS
Gender differences are profound. Return migrant women are more likely to be disabled while men are wealthier than comparable older adults in Mexico.


CONCLUSIONS
Compared to current older adults, younger cohorts of Mexico-U.S. migrants increasingly include women, and more migrants seem likely to remain in the United States rather than return, thus more research will be needed on the old-age conditions of migrants of both countries.
Wong
Rebeca
R
University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA.
Gonzalez-Gonzalez
Cesar
C
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology*; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D003625:Data Collection; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007182:Income / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D038622:Internationality; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico / Q000208:ethnology; D008875:Middle Aged; D015233:Models, Statistical; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D016012:Poisson Distribution; D011203:Poverty / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014171:Transients and Migrants / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States