Abstract
This Special Issue of Social Science & Medicine highlights new promising directions for advancing research on the health of immigrant populations. Our hope is that this collection of papers will contribute to a more thorough and integrated examination of the roles of place (i.e., contextual influences) and migration (i.e., population movements and immigrant adaptation) on the health of immigrants, their families and on overall population health in their sending and receiving societies. The articles in this issue review the utility and limitations of conceptual frameworks and analytic strategies commonly used for understanding immigrant health and propose new ones. In addition, the articles empirically examine immigrant health in context using innovative analytic strategies, and begin to tackle issues concerning possible cross-national (i.e., sending and receiving country) influences on immigrant health.