Older migrants' civic participation: A topic in need of attention

Torres, Sandra; Serrat, Rodrigo

doi:10.1016/j.jaging.2019.100790

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“…For example, this research primarily examined forms of participation (voting and volunteerism) that derived from White American society during colonization and segregation, when BIPOC communities were prohibited from participating. Few scholars emerged calling to expand our understanding of civic participation beyond voting and volunteerism to capture experiences that are more prominent among BIPOC older adults (Martinez et al, 2011;Martinson & Minkler, 2006;Torres & Serrat, 2019). Building from this research, I designed a phenomenological study that sought to center the experiences and expertise of African American and Latinx immigrant older adults and inquired into the sociopolitical, cultural, historical, and personal contexts that shaped their participation across the life course (Reyes, 2022).…”

Section: Employing Elicitation Techniques With Expertsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Emancipatory Visions: Using Visual Methods to Coconstruct Knowledge with Older Adults

2022

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This paper calls for gerontologists to engage with visual methods in qualitative research as an innovative tool for community-engaged research that has potential to advance social justice in gerontology. Reflections about using visual methods from the intersectional standpoint of the authors, three younger women of color, are presented. In Working the Hyphen, Yeh shows how interpersonal dynamics are fundamental to visual methods and that attention to identity can provide new insights into aging while also reconstituting existing power dynamics that researchers must carefully consider. In Employing Elicitation Techniques with Experts, Reyes discusses how a colonial lens limits understandings of civic participation and erases contributions of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) older adults, proposing that elicitation techniques offer opportunities for BIPOC older adults to contribute their expertise to the research process and dissemination of findings beyond an academic audience. In Pedagogy and Practicality, Versey describes promises and complexities of scaling visual methods on multiple levels — teaching future generations of researchers the philosophy and practice of photovoice; negotiating university and community relationships through a service-learning project; and navigating identity between herself, her students, and research participants. In sharing our self-narratives, we integrate reflexivity into the research process and challenge power dynamics in knowledge construction.

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Emancipatory Visions: Using Visual Methods to Coconstruct Knowledge with Older Adults

2022

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“…However, unless older migrants are well-integrated into local social networks and communities, they may end up spending their later lives in solitude and isolation, as many non-migrants do. However, only limited literature exists thus far that examines older migrants’ development potential in terms of civic participation, such as volunteering in co-ethnic or cross-ethnic communities (for review, see Torres and Serrat, 2019).…”

Section: Ageing Diasporas and Transnational Communitiesmentioning

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Migration and development: The overlooked roles of older people and ageing

Bastia

Lulle

King

2022

Progress in Human Geography

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Discussions on migration and development geography have both suffered from ‘ageism’: an overwhelming preoccupation with children and the young in the latter and widespread assumptions that migrants are generally young adults, who only leave behind children in the former. It is unsurprising, then, that migration-development debates have also been biased in favour of the young. In this paper we consider the place of older people and of ageing as a process in migration and development debates. We argue that older people, thus far overlooked, are also involved in migration and development, in heterogeneous ways and in different geographical contexts. While doing this, we challenge the conventional view of older migrants as inactive and vulnerable and of older people as merely recipients of development interventions. We argue that experiences of ageing and global inequalities are increasingly entwined and demonstrate this through five dimensions of migration and development debates: remittances, diasporas, return migration, international retirement migration, and intergenerational care. Older people and ageing as a process are central to each one of these dimensions, and it is imperative to pave further research of heterogeneity of ageing within contexts of global inequality. (189 words)

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“…(p. 674). Although researching informal helping behaviours may be more challenging than studying formal volunteering, given that they are less easy to quantify, more likely to occur in a private sphere, and less likely to be recognised as civic activities by those who perform them, they are of greatest significance for creating and maintaining the social glue, especially among people at greater risk of exclusion in later life, such as people ageing in rural communities (Jones and Heley 2016), older migrants (Torres and Serrat 2019), or the oldest old (Kruse and Schmitt 2015).…”

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“…Diversity shapes aspects such as who takes part (Petriwskyj et al 2017) and who benefits from engagement (Morrow-Howell et al 2009), or in which ways older people participate (Nesteruk and Price 2011). Research and policy initiatives aimed at reducing older people's exclusion from civic engagement may consider the particular challenges that potentially marginalised groups of older people may confront to their full inclusion in civic activities, including older migrants (Torres and Serrat 2019), older people living in long-term care institutions (Villar et al in this volume), the oldest old (Kruse and Schmitt 2015), or older people experiencing health problems or disabilities (Principi et al 2016).…”

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Reconceptualising Exclusion from Civic Engagement in Later Life: Towards a New Research Agenda

Serrat

Scharf

Villar

2021

International Perspectives on Aging

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Social exclusion in later life remains a major challenge for ageing societies. Despite widespread acceptance of its multidimensional nature, research and policy debates have tended to focus on exclusion from material resources or social relations, overlooking other recognised dimensions of social exclusion. In this context, exclusion from civic engagement has been the least studied dimension. In this chapter, we argue that future research and policy initiatives should pay attention to four key dimensions of older people’s exclusion from civic engagement. First, we need to embrace the multidimensionality of the concept of civic engagement, which includes a range of qualitatively different activities. Second, it is essential to account for the diversity of the older population, since this shapes who is able to engage civically and in which ways. Third, attention should be paid to the dynamics and experiences of engagement across the life course, in order to understand better civic engagement trajectories. Fourth, we need to consider exclusion from civic engagement as a culturally-embedded process that is largely shaped by the particular socio-political context in which engagement occurs. We provide examples of recent research covering these dimensions of exclusion from civic engagement and conclude by proposing areas of further inquiry.

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Older migrants' civic participation: A topic in need of attention

Cited by 19 publications

References 31 publications

Emancipatory Visions: Using Visual Methods to Coconstruct Knowledge with Older Adults

Emancipatory Visions: Using Visual Methods to Coconstruct Knowledge with Older Adults

Migration and development: The overlooked roles of older people and ageing

Reconceptualising Exclusion from Civic Engagement in Later Life: Towards a New Research Agenda

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