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Social inequalities experienced by children of immigrants across multiple domains of life: a case study of the Windrush in England and Wales (2022)
Journal Article
Wallace, M., Wilson, B., & Darlington-Pollock, F. (2022). Social inequalities experienced by children of immigrants across multiple domains of life: a case study of the Windrush in England and Wales. Comparative Migration Studies, 10(18), https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00293-1

It is well known that children of immigrants experience inequality. Less is known about
how inequalities compare across multiple life domains and multiple generations.
We conduct a case study of England and Wales, focussing on children of Caribbean... Read More about Social inequalities experienced by children of immigrants across multiple domains of life: a case study of the Windrush in England and Wales.

Excess mortality and COVID-19 in Sweden in 2020: A demographic account (2022)
Journal Article
Kolk, M., Drefahl, S., Wallace, M., & Andersson, G. (2022). Excess mortality and COVID-19 in Sweden in 2020: A demographic account. Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, 20, 317-348. https://doi.org/10.1553/populationyearbook2022.res2.2

In this study, we provide an account of mortality levels in Sweden in 2020, focusing on both excess mortality and mortality due to COVID-19 deaths.We present various measures of life expectancy for women and men based on age-specific death rates in 2... Read More about Excess mortality and COVID-19 in Sweden in 2020: A demographic account.

Immigration, mortality, and national life expectancy in the Nordic region, 1990–2019 (2022)
Journal Article
Wallace, M., J. Thomas, M., Manuel Aburto, J., Vera Jørring Pallesen, A., Hvas Mortensen, L., Syse, A., & Drefahl, S. (2022). Immigration, mortality, and national life expectancy in the Nordic region, 1990–2019. #Journal not on list, 19, Article 101177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101177

Highlights

• Immigrants have higher life expectancy at age 1 than the native-born in Denmark, Finland and Norway do from 1990 to 2019.
• Immigrants in Denmark, Finland and Norway increasingly enhance national life expectancy at age 1 over... Read More about Immigration, mortality, and national life expectancy in the Nordic region, 1990–2019.

What can the UK learn from the impact of migrant populations on national life expectancy? (2022)
Journal Article
Hiam, L., Zhang, C. X., Burns, R., Darlington-Pollock, F., Wallace, M., & McKee, M. (2022). What can the UK learn from the impact of migrant populations on national life expectancy?. Journal of Public Health, 44(4), e499-e505. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdac013

Improvements in life expectancy at birth in the UK had stalled prior to 2020 and have fallen during the COVID-19 pandemic. The stagnation took place at a time of relatively high net migration, yet we know that migrants to Australia, the USA and some... Read More about What can the UK learn from the impact of migrant populations on national life expectancy?.

Age variations and population over-coverage: Is low mortality among migrants merely a data artefact? (2022)
Journal Article
Wallace, M., & Wilson, B. (2022). Age variations and population over-coverage: Is low mortality among migrants merely a data artefact?. Population Studies, 76(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/00324728.2021.1877331

The migrant mortality advantage has been observed extensively, but its authenticity is debated. In particular, concerns persist that the advantage is an artefact of the data, generated by the problems of recording mobility among foreign-born populati... Read More about Age variations and population over-coverage: Is low mortality among migrants merely a data artefact?.