Third, sociological research has began to characterize how risk factors and resources in immigrant populations such as the stressors and strains associated with migration and adaptation, inadequate health care in the country of origin and factors linked to larger social structures and context, such as institutional racism and interpersonal discrimination can affect the health of immigrants (Angel and Angel 2006). For example, a study of adult migrant Mexican workers in California found that stressors linked to discrimination, legal status and problems speaking English were inversely related to self-reported measures of physical and mental health and partially accounted for the declines in these health indicators with increasing years in the U.S. (Finch, Frank, and Vega 2004).
