Towards Diversity and Intercultural Opening? Shifting the epistemic Boundaries of the Institutionalized Gaze

Farizani, Sepideh Abedi

doi:10.1007/978-3-658-33379-9_16

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Section: Older Migrants and Healthcarementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Diversity management or mainstreaming frameworks have been discussed more recently as complementary or alternative frameworks in response to the shortcomings of the intercultural openness approach in health and social care services [12,14,29]. Diversity approaches have a historical basis in US social justice movement but have been increasingly linked to an economic opportunistic perspective on how to use diversity as a resource to optimise team productivity and quality outcome [29]. Diversity strategies consider diversity dimensions, i. e. differences that lead to inequalities and discrimination in social contexts, such as race, disability, gender, religion, sexual orientation and age, as well as socioeconomic and educational background [29].…”

Section: Older Migrants and Healthcarementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Diversity approaches have a historical basis in US social justice movement but have been increasingly linked to an economic opportunistic perspective on how to use diversity as a resource to optimise team productivity and quality outcome [29]. Diversity strategies consider diversity dimensions, i. e. differences that lead to inequalities and discrimination in social contexts, such as race, disability, gender, religion, sexual orientation and age, as well as socioeconomic and educational background [29]. These differences are understood as part of diverse societies with the expectation that institutional and organisational structures consider these.…”

Section: Older Migrants and Healthcarementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The discourse on ageing and migration in the institutional sphere underlines the responsibility of institutions to align their services to the diverse and multicultural urban population in Munich. This accountability to continuously adapt and improve public institutions is a core aspect of intercultural openness and also needs to inform diversity frameworks to avoid placing the responsibility to access services on the individual [29]. Accessibility in the discourse refers to social (e.g.…”

Section: Representation and Responsibility In The Institutional Spherementioning

confidence: 99%

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Aged care services as facilitators of delayed inclusion – An analysis of institutional discourses on service provision for older migrants in Germany

Goettler

Willis

2023

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Background: Migration within and to Europe in the past decades has led to a growing diversity and a rising proportion of migrants in the older population. Germany has encouraged labour migration since the 1960s and many migrants who arrived for work in the past decades decided to stay and are now growing old in Germany. Health and social care institutions intend to acknowledge this change and adapt to the cultural diversity in aged care. This process can also be observed in the city of Munich, which is characterised by a high percentage of citizens with a migration background and an increasing population of older migrants. Methods: This study examines discourses on older migrants and their access to health and social care in Germany, associated challenges and proposed solutions. Problem-centred interviews were carried out with 18 professionals from public, welfare and charity organisations who develop, organise or provide aged care services for older migrants. The analysis examines the narratives of migrant representations, constructions of healthy ageng and phenomenal structures of services provision following the sociology of knowledge approach to discourse (SKAD) research programme. Results: The discourses on older migrants in public and social care institutions demonstrate how being defined as a migrant is related to cultural, socioeconomic and language difference and particularly stresses the structural challenges labour migrants experienced throughout and after employment. Thus, improving accessibility to health and social care is presented as a public responsibility, which aims to recognise the increasing diversity in older age and to create low threshold access to these services. Conclusions: Recognising the increasing diversity in older age by implementing diversity sensitive frameworks and improving accessibility to health and social care services could provide an opportunity for (delayed) inclusion in public services for older migrants.

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Section: Older Migrants and Healthcarementioning

confidence: 99%