More than one in five children in the United States today are in an immigrant family, either immigrants themselves or the children of immigrants. Understanding immigrant families will help understand disparities in health, education, and other types of well-being among Asian, Hispanic, and, increasingly, African American children.
The DBS Branch supports research on the demographic, social, economic, and geographic factors affecting the health, education, and well-being of children in immigrant families. The NICHD's Child Development and Behavior (CDB) Branch also supports research on immigrant children, specifically issues related to psychological development, linguistics, and school readiness.
The DBS Branch and CDB Branch, along with the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research, the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health, the Office of Policy and Strategy at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and the Office of Children's Health Protection at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency organized a workshop, One in Five: Addressing Health, Educational, and Socioeconomic Disparities of Children in Immigrant Families in April 2005. Proceedings from this conference will be posted on this Web site in 2006.
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