Immigrants and Long-distance Elder Care: An Exploratory Study

Yale, Kodwo-Nyameazea; Nguyen, Peter V.

doi:10.1007/s12126-008-9013-4

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“…Kodwo-Nyameazea and Nguyen (2008) conducted interviews with five Ghanaian immigrants living in the United States. All participants were transnationals currently providing some type of care to elders living in Ghana.…”

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Long-Distance Caregiving: A Systematic Review of the Literature

Cagle

Munn

2012

Journal of Gerontological Social Work

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There are an estimated 5–7 million long distance caregivers in the United States, but relatively little is known about this growing subpopulation of caregivers. This study systematically reviewed the existing empirical literature on long distance caregiving and critically examined 15 identified studies: 8 quantitative, 2 mixed-method, and 5 qualitative. Although studies defined long distance caregiving very differently, a composite description of who long distance caregivers are and what they do is presented. Long distance caregivers make substantial contributions to care in terms of physical, financial, and social support. Distance complicates the exchange of information about the care recipient’s health and care needs, as well as the types of care that can be provided. Related to this, geographic separation can exacerbate care-related stressors. Implications for future research are also identified.

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“…Not surprisingly, the identified studies defined care and caregiving in a variety of ways. Many studies allowed participants to determine whether they considered themselves to be a caregiver, or that their relative required care (Kodwo-Nyameazea & Nguyen, 2008; Baldock. 2000; Roff et al, 2007).…”

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Long-Distance Caregiving: A Systematic Review of the Literature

Cagle

Munn

2012

Journal of Gerontological Social Work

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“…Older parents and other household and non‐household members may facilitate and sustain the migration of adult children by providing monetary, instrumental, child‐care, and information support, either before migration or at the destination, so that their living standard can be improved by remittances (Chamberlain, ; Mazzucato, ). Prior research suggests that migrant children who received support from their parents are more likely to remit (Hondagneu‐Sotelo and Avila, ; Kodyo‐Nyameazea and Nguyen, ; Cong and Silverstein, ).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Social Welfare and Remittances to Older Adults in Two Caribbean Cities

Quashie

2019

International Migration

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This study explores the correlates of financial and material remittances to older adults in Havana and Bridgetown. These cities, both within countries at a very advanced stage of population ageing, have different institutional contexts for older adults. Data come from the 2000 Survey on Health, Well‐Being and Aging in Latin America and the Caribbean (SABE) of adults 60 years and older with children overseas, Havana (n = 461) and Bridgetown (n = 1,003), representing 342 and 531 families, respectively. Multivariate logistic regression analyses indicate that remittances to Havana were significantly associated with parents' and children's socio‐economic resources. Remittances to Bridgetown were associated with parents' sociodemographic characteristics and sibling's coresidence with parents. In both cities, remittances were positively associated with parents' support of their children. The findings suggest remittances are both a household survival strategy, which can reinforce socioeconomic inequality, and symbolic of social norms of family relations.

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“…However, interviewees recognize that people's progression along this pathway is somewhat unpredictable. No longer working, needing financial assistance, and losing physical strength are signs of elderhood rather than age per se (Kodwo‐Nyameazea and Nguyen ; van der Geest ). The vagaries of wealth accumulation and health affect the rate at which a person proceeds along this general chronology.…”

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Orchestrating Care in Time: Ghanaian Migrant Women, Family, and Reciprocity

Coe

2016

American Anthropologist

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People in southern Ghana provide care by attending to and synchronizing their and others' life courses.Women, in particular, synchronize their life courses with the developmental and aging pathways of others. Since the 1970s, younger women in southern Ghana have migrated to urban or rural areas to earn money, leaving their children in the care of their mothers, whom they support with their remittances. As migrant women grow older, they return to their hometowns to provide elder and child care. Although female transmigrants also use these temporal strategies of care, the synchronization of life courses proves more difficult to coordinate in transnational contexts.For these reasons, time and timing is as important as space and location to transnational migrants, and migration is transtemporal as well as translocal. [life course, care, migration, gender, Ghana] RESUMEN Habitantes en el sur de Gana proveen cuidados atendiendo y sincronizando los cursos de su vida y los de otros. Las mujeres, en particular, sincronizan los cursos de su vida con los caminos de envejecimiento de otros.Desde los 1970s, mujeres jóvenes en el sur de Gana han migrado aáreas urbanas o rurales a ganar dinero, dejando sus hijos al cuidado de sus madres, a quienes ellas apoyan con sus remesas. En la medida en que las mujeres se hacen mayores, regresan a sus lugares de origen a proveer cuidados a los ancianos y a los niños. Aunque las mujeres transmigrantes también utilizan estas estrategias temporales de cuidado, la sincronización de los cursos de la vida resultan más difíciles de coordinar en contextos transnacionales. Por estas razones, tiempo y coordinación de tiempo son tan importantes como espacio y localización para los migrantes transnacionales. La migración es tanto transtemporal como translocal. [curso de vida, cuidados, migración, género, Gana]

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Immigrants and Long-distance Elder Care: An Exploratory Study

Cited by 24 publications

References 29 publications

Long-Distance Caregiving: A Systematic Review of the Literature

Long-Distance Caregiving: A Systematic Review of the Literature

Social Welfare and Remittances to Older Adults in Two Caribbean Cities

Orchestrating Care in Time: Ghanaian Migrant Women, Family, and Reciprocity

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