Experiences in Old Age: A South Indian Example of how Functional Age is Socially Structured

Vera‐Sanso, Penny

doi:10.1080/13600810601045817

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“…Th e payout for the retirees was oft en crucial in sustaining the social and economic obligations of the elderly to kin. Children's reliance on transfers from their parents and grandparents is widely noted in South Asian studies (e.g., Vera-Sanso 2006. But the loss of autonomy of elderly individuals and of the individualized ethos that had become part of modern plantation life also upset them.…”

Section: Deferred Payouts: Th E Agony Of Griefmentioning

confidence: 99%

Crisis and retirement

Raj¹

2020

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AbstractThe recent crisis in the tea industry has devastated the livelihood of the Dalit workforce in the South Indian state of Kerala. Retired workers were worst affected, since the plantation companies—under the disguise of the crisis—deferred their service payout. This article seeks to understand the severe alienation of the retirees as they struggle to regain lost respect, kinship network, and everyday sociality in the plantations and beyond. I argue that the alienation produced through their dispossession as wage laborers and the discrimination as Tamil-speaking Dalit must be understood as an interrelated process, whereas the source of alienation cannot be reduced to production or categorical relations alone.

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Section: Deferred Payouts: Th E Agony Of Griefmentioning

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Crisis and retirement

Raj¹

2020

Focaal

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“…Empowerment of elders and acknowledgment of their agency in urban development are gaining currency. Yet, mistaken notions of predominant dependence remain an issue (Boermel 2006;Vera-Sanso 2006). The following section describes several initiatives around the world that incorporate intergenerational practice.…”

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Intergenerational Communities as Healthy Places for Meaningful Engagement and Interaction

Cushing¹,

Vliet²

2016

Families, Intergenerationality, and Peer Group Relations

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Shifting demographics, along with changing family structures and household dynamics worldwide, make it increasingly important to reflect on successful practices that provide opportunities for interaction, engagement, and support across more than two generations. This chapter, therefore, explores three key areas of research: (1) elder-friendly communities, (2) child-friendly communities, and (3) healthy communities, to identify how they align and intersect to form foundations for intergenerational approaches. Instead of a limited view that focuses on the amelioration of age-specific problems, research prioritizes shared principles that promote the development of intergenerational community assets. In addition, there is encouraging evidence suggesting the allocation of policy resources-financial, physical, humanis not necessarily a zero-sum game because intergenerational approaches can produce synergistic outcomes. The chapter concludes with recommendations for additional research. Keywords A Neighborhood for All Ages • Age-friendly employment policies • Baby boom • Built environment domains • Buildings • Housing • Outdoor spaces • Built environment domain transportation • Child-friendly city • Building blocks for framework • Definition • Initiative • Co-facilitation methods • Cohousing • Communities for All Ages • Convention on the Rights of Older Persons (CROP) • Cyber Seniors • Elder-friendly communities • Garden Mosaics • Golden Link model • Healthy communities • Home help services • Hope Meadows • Imagining Livability Design Collection • Implementation gap • Intergenerational communities • Aims • Challenges and opportunities • Community benefits • Individual physical benefits • Physical and social barrier reduction • Positive attitudes • Social and built environment • Built environment domains; social domains • Intergenerational community initiatives and policies • International migration • Life-course approach • Lifespan approach • Making Connections • Multigenerational bonds • National Center on Grandfamilies • Naturally occurring retirement communities (NORCs) • Normative gap • ONEgeneration • Pedestrian safety • Proactive neighborhood planning • Rights-based approaches • Salutogenesis • Shared housing • Social domains • Communication and information • Community support and health services • Employment and civic participation • Social inclusion • Social inclusion • The Marvin • Twin Creeks • Youth bulge • Zoning regulations

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“…Second, much of what we know about ageing comes from high-income countries (Skinner et al 2015). Ageing in lower-income countries has clearly been researched but has, to date, played a relatively minor role in the overall literature on ageing and on how it is theorized (Vera-Sanso 2006). Third, as with migration research in general, the existing literature on ageing and migration is mostly on South-North migration, thus overlooking South-South migration even although it constitutes almost half of all cross-border moves (Ratha and Shaw 2007).…”

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The consequences of migration for the migrants' parents in Bolivia

2020

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The existing literature on transnational care suggests that it is possible to care for ageing parents from afar. However, most of these studies are based on research in higher‐income countries, where families have access to institutional support and where travel and communication networks are generally of high quality. Studies focusing on lower‐income countries of origin have found a greater likelihood of migrants' parents being in a vulnerable situation. Here, though, there has been a preference for focusing on rural areas. In this article, we address this gap by reporting on a research project that spans rural, urban and peri‐urban areas, as well as different migration streams (regional South–South and South–North), and ask how migrants' parents fare during their adult children's absences in a context of very weak institutional support, widespread poverty and inequality. We find that parents in urban and peri‐urban areas are generally better able to negotiate their adult children's absences, while those in rural areas experience an increase in their vulnerability. However, there are also stories that are in tension with these general trends, which indicates that social networks, migrants' destinations and parents' socio‐economic statuses also mediate the availability of transnational care.

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Experiences in Old Age: A South Indian Example of how Functional Age is Socially Structured

Cited by 26 publications

References 8 publications

Crisis and retirement

Crisis and retirement

Intergenerational Communities as Healthy Places for Meaningful Engagement and Interaction

The consequences of migration for the migrants' parents in Bolivia

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