Health is an integral feature of immigration, providing not only insight into population health but also a critical lens into immigrant integration and the power structure in receiving countries. The goal of this article is to chart the trajectory of scholarship on immigrants’ health, focusing on the formative shift away from dominant individualistic perspectives focused on cultural and behavioral explanations toward a profoundly structural understanding of immigrants’ health. Focusing primarily on the US context, we synthesize theoretical and empirical advances in structural perspectives of immigrants’ health. We anchor these advances in the concept of exclusion, detailing how it undergirds structuralist perspectives of immigrants’ health. We review common ways in which exclusion has been measured in the empirical literature on immigrants’ health and highlight recent evidence linking exposure to exclusion to immigrants’ health outcomes across the life course. We conclude by discussing key directions and challenges for future research.

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排斥对移民一生健康的影响：研究进展和未来方向


健康是移民的一个不可或缺的特征，它不仅提供了对人口健康的洞察，而且还是了解移民融入和接收国权力结构的重要视角。本文的目的是描绘移民健康学术的轨迹，重点关注从侧重于文化和行为解释的主导个人主义观点转向对移民健康的深刻结构性理解的形成性转变。我们主要关注美国的背景，综合移民健康结构视角的理论和实证进展。我们将这些进步立足于排斥概念，详细介绍了它如何巩固移民健康的结构主义观点。我们回顾了移民健康实证文献中衡量排斥的常见方法，并重点介绍了最近的证据，将排斥暴露与移民整个生命周期的健康结果联系起来。最后，我们讨论了未来研究的关键方向和挑战。