Food insecurity in the United States of America: an examination of race/ethnicity and nativity

Ana McCormick Myers () and Matthew A. Painter ()
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Ana McCormick Myers: University of Wyoming
Matthew A. Painter: University of Wyoming

Food Security: The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production and Access to Food, 2017, vol. 9, issue 6, No 23, 1419-1432

Abstract: Abstract Food insecurity is a persistent problem in the United States and is disproportionately distributed across racial/ethnic groups, with some evidence that non-Latino blacks and Latinos experience higher rates than non-Latino whites. But no nationally-representative study examines how race/ethnicity affects food insecurity for immigrants in the United States. Using new assimilation theory and the 1999–2010 waves (N = 32,464) of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), this study investigated the relationship between food insecurity and both race/ethnicity and nativity status. Results, when socioeconomic status is held constant, provide evidence for a nonwhite/white divide in food insecurity for both immigrants and the native-born. That is, blacks and Latinos – regardless of nativity status – are significantly more food insecure than both foreign- and native-born whites. These results provide insight into a continuing pattern of racial/ethnic inequality in the United States.

Keywords: Food insecurity; Race/ethnicity; Nativity; Immigrants; NHANES (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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