Investigating the migrant mortality advantage at the intersections of social stratification in Switzerland: The role of vulnerability

Author(s) : Jonathan Zufferey

Source : http://dx.doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2016.34.32

Abstract:

Migrant mortality advantage has been widely studied in Western countries, but little attention has been paid to how social factors interact to increase or diminish risks of death. Socioeconomic factors are indeed widely used in regression models but mostly to define, ceteris paribus, whether migrants have a higher propensity to die than natives.

Using an inductive approach, the aim of this paper is to reassess the role of social factors. Focusing on migrant communities, the paper establishes at which intersection of the components of social stratification the migrant mortality advantage is mainly located.

Keywords: migrants, mortality, mortality paradox, regression trees, social stratification, Switzerland