Older migrants in Luxembourg – care preferences for old age between family and professional services

Karl, Ute; Ramos, Anne Carolina; Kühn, Boris

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2016.1238909

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“…Intentions are viewed here as the loci of socially-embedded agency that mediate between what is considered morally right and what is perceived as possible within a given opportunity structure (capacities, Baldassar, Wilding & Baldock 2007). They appear in the interviews in the form of expressions like 'I would like to', 'I want to' or 'I will', and can pertain to the present and the future as well as the past (for relational and temporal dimensions of agency, see Emirbayer & Mische 1998;Karl, Ramos & Kühn 2017).…”

Section: Care Intentionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Envisaging post-Brexit immobility: Polish migrants’ care intentions concerning their elderly parents

Radziwinowiczówna¹,

Kloc‐Nowak²,

Rosińska³

2020

JFamRes

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The United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union will end the European Freedom of Movement and the privileged migration status of EU Citizens in the UK, which will likely affect ‘Brexit families’ and their transnational care arrangements. This is a case study of the biggest migrant group in the UK, namely Poles. Before the Brexit referendum, the first wave of the in-depth interviews identified several types of migrants’ intentions concerning elderly care for their parents who remained in Poland. The research approached intentions as discursive strategies: declarations of care commitment and statements provided to explain the absence of care intentions. The second wave was conducted after the UK had decided to exit the EU and new policies concerning EU citizens were being developed. Brexit’s influence on elderly care intentions is twofold. First, it brings higher uncertainty about future migration regulations and disorientates migrants about the possibilities regarding reunification with their parents in the UK. Second, Brexit appears in the interviews as a discursive construction to alleviate a migrant’s involvement in direct care provision, where they still deem it normatively appropriate to enact this cultural norm, but do not intend to in fact do so.

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Section: Care Intentionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Envisaging post-Brexit immobility: Polish migrants’ care intentions concerning their elderly parents

Radziwinowiczówna¹,

Kloc‐Nowak²,

Rosińska³

2020

JFamRes

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“…Research on older migrants has grown significantly since the turn of the century, much of it at the intersection between migration studies and gerontology. The main research themes have been return migration (Bolzman, Fibbi, & Vial, 2006;Ciobanu & Ramos, 2016;Hunter, 2011), care (Baldassar, Baldock, & Wilding, 2007;Horn, Schweppe, Bender, & Hollstein, 2016;Karl, Ramos, & Kühn, 2017;Torres, Ågård, & Milberg, 2016), international retirement migration (Gehring, 2016;King, Warnes, & Williams, 2000), and increasingly transnationalism (Burholt, Dobbs, & Victor, 2016;Horn & Schweppe, 2016) and the use of ICT (Baldassar, Nedelcu, Merla, & Wilding, 2016;Hunter, 2015). An important contribution was made by Warnes, Friedrich, Kellaher, and Torres (2004) who, without being exhaustive, underline that older migrants constitute a highly heterogeneous population.…”

Section: The New Mobilities Paradigm: What Place For Older Migrants?mentioning

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Older migrants and (im)mobilities of Ageing: An introduction

Ciobanu

Hunter

2017

Population Space and Place

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This guest editorial introduces a special issue entitled “Older migrants: (im)mobilities of ageing.” The movement of people is a core concern of population geographers, and the last decade has witnessed a “mobilities turn.” This literature has given much attention to younger people who move, but thus far has largely ignored people who migrate in later life, or whose previous migrations significantly shape their present experiences of ageing. The articles in this special issue address this lacuna, drawing on different categories of older international migrants to and from various European countries. More specifically, the special issue's ambition is to respond to 2 questions. What added value does the “new mobilities paradigm” contribute to the study of older migrants, who may have migrated long ago or be less mobile today than in the past? And conversely, what added value does studying older migrants contribute to the mobilities paradigm? While acknowledging earlier critiques of this paradigm, we contend that the mobilities perspective helps to elucidate the experiences of older migrants, through its insistence on the capacity for mobility—whether physical, virtual, communicative, or imaginative—at diverse scales, including but certainly not limited to international cross‐border moves. Mobility thus conceived is an important but neglected factor for older people to achieve better quality of life. We also argue that research with older migrants offers rich potential for refining the mobilities paradigm, for example, in terms of “mobility regimes” governing access to health care and social protection, to which older migrants may be particularly exposed. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“…A number of studies have found that the family is central in providing care and support in old age for both migrants and nonmigrants (Karl, Ramos, & Kühn, 2016; Victor et al., 2012; Willis, Khambhaita, Pathak, & Evandrou, 2016). However, Warnes et al.…”

Section: Older Migrants and Circulations Of Carementioning

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The Missing Link in the Chain

Khan¹,

Caldwell

Halsall

2017

Illness, Crisis & Loss

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As the migrant workers of the 1960s and 1970s age in place, many countries are facing caring for increasing numbers of older migrants, many of whom have complex health and social care needs. By applying a qualitative case study approach, of a grassroots disability resource centre that works with older migrants, this paper critically explores the social policy debates that are focused on older migrants in the Black and Minority Ethnic (BME)community. A number of themes have emerged, including the impact of changing family structure, difficulties with accessing services and increased isolation. In addition, there are also examples of older migrants activtly engaged in building communities and supporting others, defying the stereotypes of vulnerable older migrants being a burden on the state. This paper argues for politicians and social policy makers to refocus on the new challenges that are emerging in the older migrants of the BME community.

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Older migrants in Luxembourg – care preferences for old age between family and professional services

Cited by 27 publications

References 23 publications

Envisaging post-Brexit immobility: Polish migrants’ care intentions concerning their elderly parents

Envisaging post-Brexit immobility: Polish migrants’ care intentions concerning their elderly parents

Older migrants and (im)mobilities of Ageing: An introduction

The Missing Link in the Chain

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