TY - JOUR T1 - Unravelling migrants’ health paradoxes: a transdisciplinary research agenda JF - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health JO - J Epidemiol Community Health SP - 870 LP - 873 DO - 10.1136/jech-2016-208439 VL - 71 IS - 9 AU - Maria Roura Y1 - 2017/09/01 UR - http://jech.bmj.com/content/71/9/870.abstract N2 - The Social Determinants of Health literature has consistently found that a higher socioeconomic status is associated with better health outcomes even after adjusting for traditional risk factors. However, research findings in the field of Migrants’ Health suggest that the socioeconomic/health gradient does not always behave as expected for migrants and their descendants. The mismatch of findings in these two long-standing parallel research traditions is exemplified by frequent reports of paradoxical findings in the scientific literature: the healthy migrant paradox, the ethnic density paradox and the diminishing returns paradox. This paper outlines a transdisciplinary research agenda to elucidate the social processes that underpin these disconcerting findings and calls for a shift from a pathogenic deficit model that sees migrants as a burden to their reconceptualisation as actively engaged citizens in search of solutions. Amidst a severe refugee crisis, fears of terrorist attacks and political capitalisation of these tragedies to foster antimigrant sentiments, this is urgently needed. ER -