Lack of familiarity with how care is provided or not receiving adequate information about what options for care exist, were also common problems for immigrant women [ 26, 28- 32, 35- 38, 41, 48, 50, 51].
But the biggest problem for immigrants, as for young Swedes, is work.
This is likely to be a significant problem for immigrants arriving in the early years of the IMDB.
In particular, we study if state dependence is a more severe problem for immigrants than for natives, which is a novel question in the literature on overeducation of immigrants.
If this is the case, this is an indication that overeducation is not only a passing problem for immigrants but that it may have scarring effects affecting the integration of immigrants also in the long run.
Some community groups, however, expressed concern that the historic status could cause problems for current immigrants.
On the other hand, one could emphasize the fact that these items were designed mainly with the white, non-Latino population in mind, and the items could produce unforeseen problems for recent immigrants in particular.
Our findings are consistent with communication related problems for pregnant immigrant women in other western settings who experienced adverse birth outcomes [ 7, 8, 37- 39].
People posing as lawyers are another common problem for vulnerable immigrants, many of whom cannot speak English.
