CSDE Affiliate Rawan Arar recently published an article in the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies entitled “Contrasting Trajectories of Incorporation: Refugee Integration and the Global South” which examines how the challenges of making a home in a foreign country are not unique to refugees in the Global South, their trajectories of integration in Southern host states often diverge from descriptions in the canonical literature on immigrant integration. Arar asks the question: what constitutes integration when newcomers share a language, cultural similarities, religious practices, and family ties with the receiving society? Drawing on ethnographic and interview data with Syrian refugees in Jordan, this article illustrates (a) the complexities that surface when refugees share similarities with members of the receiving community, (b) emerging axes of difference-making, and (c) distinct mechanisms linking humanitarian intervention with the facilitation and impediment of integration. Fantastic work, Rawan!

The University of Minnesota’s IPUMS team has newly-released health data from two sources. The IPUMS MEPS (Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Data for Social, Economic, and Health Research) now includes over 70 new variables from the Prescribed Medicines file from 1996 to the present. These variables include information on medication type, drug name, amounts paid per medication fill, and more. They have also released new variables from IPUMS NHIS, which now includes over 600 variables from the 2022 National Health Interview Survey.

CSDE External Affiliates Amy Bailey and Ryan Gabriel, along with Co-authors, have published a new article in Demography examining the relationship between the lynching of African Americans in the southern United States and subsequent county out-migration of the victims’ surviving family members across 5 decades. In the article entitled, “The Migration of Lynch Victims’ Families, 1880–1930”, they use U.S. census records and machine learning methods to identify the place of residence for family members of Black individuals who were killed by lynch mobs between 1882 and 1929 in the U.S. South. Congratulations, Ryan and Amy!

CSDE staff Jessica Godwin and Tiffany Pan, along with Co-authors, recently released new research in Child Abuse & Neglect entitled “Associations Between Childhood Maltreatment and Physiological Dysregulation in Adulthood: Methodological Decisions and Implications”. Using multiple dimension reduction approaches to quantify physiological dysregulation from multiple biomarker outcomes and different measures of exposure to childhood maltreatment, they discover that the significance and magnitude of effects varied by both dimension reduction method and measure of maltreatment. Biomarker data used in this analysis was assayed by former CSDE staff, Eleanor Brindle. Wonderful job!

An Evans School team led by Vance Larsen including CSDE Affiliate Crystal Hall and CSDE Alum Hilary Wething recently authored “Behavioral Consequences of Income and Expense Shocks” in the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics. The paper explores the behavioral consequences of income and expense shocks, finding that one-time income shocks evoked a larger number of coping strategies and were more difficult to manage than one-time expense shocks.

CSDE Affiliate Yuan Hsiao (Communications) and CSDE alum John Leverso (University of Cincinnati in the School of Criminal Justice) recently published “The Corner, the Crew, and the Digital Street: Multiplex Networks of Gang Online-Offline Conflict Dynamics in the Digital Age” in the American Sociological Reviews. The paper takes an abductive approach through integration of Facebook, police records, and maps of gang territory to gain insight on the systematic patterns of conflict, which otherwise might appear to be randomly occurring without such an integrated approach.