Ageing in a foreign country: determinants of self-rated health among older migrants in Italy

Çela, Eralba; Belgiojoso, Elisa Barbiano di

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2019.1627863

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“…We ultimately found that transnational networks have a strong positive effect on how ageing migrants perceive their health (Cela & Di Barbiano Belgiojoso, 2019).…”

Section: Mental Health and Quality Of Lifementioning

confidence: 79%

Migration as a Health Inequality Dimension? Natio-Ethno-Cultural Affiliation, Health, and Social Networks

Gamper

Kupfer²

2022

Social Networks and Health Inequalities

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Concepts like race, migration background, or ethnic group are more and more being investigated in health research. It should be noted that those concepts themselves are very heterogeneous. They are, for example, endowed with different rights (e.g., cosmopolitan migrants from the global north, refugees from the global south) (Ambrosini & van der Leun, 2015) or have to deal with racism or discrimination (Nazroo, 2003). A challenge and a recurrent difficulty in research on the health of migrants is the operationalization of studies due to the heterogeneity of the group. On the one hand, it is unclear which criteria—nationality, mother tongue, ethnicity of grandparents, race, place of birth, place of migration as well as migration regime—are used to determine “migrants,” which makes comparability of the studies difficult (Sheldon & Parker, 1992). On the other hand, the group of people with a history of migration is very heterogeneous with regard to other lines of difference, such as social milieu/class and gender, but also country of origin and reason and time of migration. This makes the health situation of the so-called migrants very different, and it cannot be described in a generalized way. Research shows that social integration and social support can play a big role in the health status of migrants. It can provide information to the healthcare system, provide emotional support, or simply make someone feel like they are not alone. Social networks also play a big role for people with a so-called migration background or with a so-called different ethnic background (Johnson et al., 2017). In this chapter, we explore the link between health, migration, and networks. In doing so, we will try to minimize the uncertainty of the heterogeneity of the group as much as possible.

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“…We ultimately found that transnational networks have a strong positive effect on how ageing migrants perceive their health (Cela & Di Barbiano Belgiojoso, 2019).…”

Section: Mental Health and Quality Of Lifementioning

confidence: 79%

Migration as a Health Inequality Dimension? Natio-Ethno-Cultural Affiliation, Health, and Social Networks

Gamper

Kupfer²

2022

Social Networks and Health Inequalities

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“…Several factors can account for the loss of health advantages of migrants: early life conditions in the country of origin play an important role; nevertheless, exposure to risk in the destination country also plays a prominent role. Migrants are often exposed to several kinds of deprivations, both material and immaterial, such as poverty, social exclusion, poor housing, discrimination, and social isolation, leading to the so-called “exhausted migrant effect” ( Bollini and Siem, 1995 ; Nazroo, 2003 ; Borrell et al, 2015 ; Cela and Barbiano di Belgiojoso, 2019 ). These stressful experiences place migrants’ health at risk: migrants often work and live in poor environments, lack protective factors such as close family members, and lack or have limited access to health care, exposing them to risky behaviors such as smoking and alcohol abuse, unhealthy diets and sedentary lifestyles ( Antecol and Bedard, 2006 ; De Luca et al, 2013 ; Borrell et al, 2015 ; Kristiansen et al, 2016 ).…”

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The Impact of Pre- and Postarrival Mechanisms on Self-rated Health and Life Satisfaction Among Refugees in Germany

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In this study, we focus on the evolution of refugees’ well-being in the first years after their arrival in Germany. In contrast to other immigrants (e.g., labor migrants), refugees experience higher risks of unexpected and traumatic events and insecurity before and during their migration and face various legal and structural barriers in the receiving country. We contribute to the existing literature by exploring from a dynamic perspective possible pre- and postarrival determinants of refugees’ life satisfaction and self-rated health upon arrival in Germany and the development of their life satisfaction and self-rated health in the process of becoming established. Applying linear regression and panel models with recent longitudinal data from the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees in Germany, we find significant effects of prearrival factors, such as traumatic experiences and the complexity of migration, on both life satisfaction and self-rated health at the time of the first interview. Regarding postarrival factors, our results suggest that improvement in language proficiency and labor market status significantly shape refugees’ life satisfaction and self-rated health. The time-dynamic analyses reveal substantial improvements in life satisfaction upon the approval of refugee status and the transition from shared housing to private accommodations. However, we find no improvements in self-rated health due to legal status but rather deterioration effects due to long-term residence in shared housing.

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“…Italy began to experience considerable immigration during the 80's, thus the aging of the immigrant population is still a marginal phenomenon (Cela and Barbiano di Belgiojoso, 2019); actually, the share of elderly migrants is rather small and therefore little studied. However, older populations are increasing in relative and absolute numbers and in the future, elderly people (both natives and migrants) will play a more important role in their family and in society in general, as long as their life expectancy increases.…”

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Co-Resident Grandparent: A Burden or a Relief? A Comparison of Gender Roles between Italians and Migrants

Trappolini¹,

Rimoldi²,

Terzera³

2021

Front. Hum. Dyn.

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In the international literature, the principal task of grandparents is generally recognized as helping their children in providing childcare. Most of those studies analyzed grandparental childcare on the whole population, and few have focused on co-resident grandparent(s), which turns out to be an understudied topic in the European context. Further, most of them investigated the effect of childcare on grandparents’ health status. However, the elderly population can both provide and receive care. Using two Italian surveys released by the Italian National Institute of Statistics, the “Social Condition and Integration of Foreign Citizen (2011–2012)” and the “Multiscopo–Aspetti della vita quotidiana (2011)”, the study aims to analyze differences in grandparental childcare provided by co-resident grandparents between Italian and migrant households, considering both the role played by grandparents’ self-rated health (SRH) and gender. We identify four grandparents’ profiles by combining grandparents’ SRH and their attitude towards looking after their grandchild(ren). Subsequently, we apply multinomial logistic regressions, and we compute average marginal effects to facilitate results interpretations. Results display that migrant co-resident grandparents are less likely to declare bad SRH and no-childcare and are more likely to declare good SRH and to provide childcare than Italian grandparents. Moreover, when considering gender differences, the real role is revealed: we find that women have a higher probability to report poor health and care for their grandchild(ren) than men. Such findings illustrate that grandparents’ cohabitation decision is based upon the difference between their need for care and offer to care, and second, in addition to migrant status and SRH, gender is a determinant of grandparents’ childcare: women look after their grandchild(ren) more than men, whatever their health status.

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Ageing in a foreign country: determinants of self-rated health among older migrants in Italy

Cited by 25 publications

References 75 publications

Migration as a Health Inequality Dimension? Natio-Ethno-Cultural Affiliation, Health, and Social Networks

Migration as a Health Inequality Dimension? Natio-Ethno-Cultural Affiliation, Health, and Social Networks

The Impact of Pre- and Postarrival Mechanisms on Self-rated Health and Life Satisfaction Among Refugees in Germany

Co-Resident Grandparent: A Burden or a Relief? A Comparison of Gender Roles between Italians and Migrants

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