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A life-course perspective on legal status stratification and health
Jacqueline M Torres1, Maria-Elena D Young2
1RWJF Health & Society Scholars Program, University of California, San Francisco & University of California, Berkeley and UCSF Center for Health & Community, 3333 California Street, Suite 465, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA.
Abstract:
Scholars have expressed growing interest in the relationship between legal status stratification and health. Nevertheless, the extant research often lacks theoretical underpinnings. We propose the life-course perspective as a theoretical lens with which to understand relationships between legal status stratification and health outcomes. In particular, the life-course perspective guides researchers׳ attention to historical contexts that have produced differential social, political, and economic outcomes for immigrants based on legal status, and to the potentially long-term and intergenerational relationships between legal status stratification and health. We review four key dimensions of the life-course perspective and make recommendations for future directions in public health research on legal status and health.
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