Hispanic Suicide in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: Examining the Effects of Immigration, Assimilation, Affluence, and Disadvantage

American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 112, pp. 1848-1885, 2007

38 Pages Posted: 26 Mar 2012

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Tim Wadsworth

University of Colorado at Boulder

Charis E. Kubrin

University of California, Irvine

Date Written: 2007

Abstract

This study examines the structural correlates of Hispanic suicide at the metropolitan level using Mortality Multiple Cause-of-Death Records and 2000 census data. The authors test competing hypotheses regarding the effects of immigration, assimilation, affluence, economic disadvantage, and ethnic inequality on suicide levels for Hispanics as a whole and disaggregated by immigrant status. The findings point to multiple forces and complex relationships among social structure, culture, and Hispanic suicide. The findings also suggest that these factors have unique effects on native-born versus immigrant populations. This is the first study to determine the structural correlates of suicide among Hispanics and to assess the macrolevel influence of immigration and cultural assimilation on ethnic-specific suicide.

Keywords: suicide, immigration, Hispanic, assimilation

Suggested Citation

Wadsworth, Tim and Kubrin, Charis, Hispanic Suicide in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: Examining the Effects of Immigration, Assimilation, Affluence, and Disadvantage (2007). American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 112, pp. 1848-1885, 2007, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2028177

Tim Wadsworth

University of Colorado at Boulder ( email )

1070 Edinboro Drive
Boulder, CO 80309
United States

Charis Kubrin (Contact Author)

University of California, Irvine ( email )

Department of Criminiology, Law and Society
Social Ecology II, Rm 3379
Irvine, CA 62697-3125
United States

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