- Title
- Selection, adaptation and advantage. Later-life health and wellbeing of English migrants to Australia
- Creator
- Vanhoutte, Bram; Loh, Vanessa; Nazroo, James; Kendig, Hal; O'Loughlin, Kate; Byles, Julie
- Relation
- ARC.DP1096778
- Relation
- Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Vol. 45, Issue 13, p. 2489-2507
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1446823
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- This study investigates the long-term impact of English adult migration to Australia by comparing health and wellbeing outcomes in later life of English migrants to their counterparts who remained in England (non-migrants) and to native-born Australians. It traces the influence of selection, adaptation and advantage as three mechanisms that can influence migrant health in later life. The analysis utilises data for a cohort aged 60-64 years from the Australian Life Histories and Health (LHH) survey (n = 1088), a sub-study of the Australian 45 and Up Study, in combination with a matched cohort from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) (n = 1139). Social rather than health characteristics were found to play a role in the selection of English migrants. English migrants reported higher subjective quality of life than English non-migrants, and better physical health than the Australian-born, but their mental health outcomes did not significantly differ from the other cohorts. The comparatively better later-life outcomes for the English migrants can partly be linked to advantage, as they hold higher prestige jobs than the Australian-born at lower levels of education.
- Subject
- English adult migrants; Australia; health; wellbeing
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1445665
- Identifier
- uon:42639
- Identifier
- ISSN:1369-183X
- Language
- eng
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