Transnational Relationships and Cultural Identity of Older Migrants

Burholt, Vanessa; Dobbs, Christine; Victor, Christina

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“…Overall, the findings from this qualitative study show that older Asian migrants in New Zealand experience a form of “double” isolation and loneliness in at least some points of their migrant lives. In this study, the sole‐living arrangement (or living with a spouse only) emerges as a significant milestone, where post‐retirement migrants feel they should be able to manage daily routines independently with extremely limited support from their family, neighbourhood, and community (Burholt et al, ; Caperchione et al, ). For some participants, this living arrangement was viewed as positive for both parents and adult children, allowing them freedom and space for maintaining independent yet connected lives.…”

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“…Older migrants may also experience social isolation in later life, particularly if their children are unable to support them or if they are left to fend for themselves (Caperchione, Kolt, Tennent, & Mummery, ). It is likely that older, later‐life migrants are at even more acute risk of experiencing loneliness or social isolation due to language issues and difficulty forging contacts beyond their immediate family (Ajrouch, ; Burholt, Dobbs, & Victor, ). Recent research has argued that older migrants have an increased likelihood of vulnerability, especially in relation to social embeddedness and care (Ciobanu & Fokkema, ).…”

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“…It is likely that older, later-life migrants are at even more acute risk of experiencing loneliness or social isolation due to language issues and difficulty forging contacts beyond their immediate family (Ajrouch, 2008;Burholt, Dobbs, & Victor, 2016). Recent research has argued that older migrants have an increased likelihood of vulnerability, especially in relation to social embeddedness and care (Ciobanu & Fokkema, 2017).…”

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Lonely ageing in a foreign land: Social isolation and loneliness among older Asian migrants in New Zealand

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Ageing does not reduce people's need to connect with family members, friends, and acquaintances, and neither does migration. For those older migrants living in a foreign land, connectedness with others plays a particularly important role in achieving a sense of belonging and sustaining their health and well‐being. This paper explores the issues of social isolation and loneliness among older Asian migrants in New Zealand. Data were collected from in‐depth semi‐structured interviews with Chinese‐ or Korean‐speaking migrants aged between 75 and 84 years (n = 10: all females), and from three focus groups consisting of Chinese‐ and Korean‐speaking migrants (n = 10: 7 females, 3 males) and Chinese professionals (n = 5: 3 females, 2 males) between June 2016 and December 2016. The qualitative data obtained were analysed applying a thematic analysis approach using NVivo software for group analysis by a multidisciplinary research team. The findings from the study show that older Asian migrants experienced high levels of isolation and loneliness at least at some points in their migrant lives. Most participants in this study were living alone or with only their spouse, and this living arrangement was likely to provide fertile ground for isolation and loneliness to grow in the context of later‐life migration. It was also observed that their lonely ageing ironically resulted from their efforts to preserve family relationships through avoiding being a burden, while allowing them a sort of space to maintain now barely connected lives. The participants revealed multiple ways of coping with lonely and isolated experiences in their limited social network, and these individual strategies allow us to make suggestions about how best to reduce older migrants’ social isolation and loneliness in the New Zealand context and beyond.

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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.…”

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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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“…The decision to live in a boarding house seems to be the best alternative for these people.Among the main reasons why people come to this place there are poor health and disability requiring medical care, the absence of their own homes, old age, loneliness and high accommodation costs (Auer, & Gatterer, 2012;Tesch-Römer, & Wurm, 2012;Burholt, Dobbs, & Victor;Smith, & Hung, 2012;Stepankova, Jarolimova, Dragomirecka, Sobotkova, Sulova, Bezdicek, Holmerova, 2012;Santacreu, 2012;Ferring, & Lang, 2012;Modestov, Novikov, Podkorytov, & Shevchenko, 2002;Modestov, Novikov, Shevchenko, Podkorytov, & Smerdin, 2001). These people's well-being depends heavily on the ongoing state social policy and the level of pension provision.…”

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Proceedings of the Iii International Scientific and Practical Conference “Psychological Health of the Person: Life Resource and Life Potential”

2017

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The Proceedings cover different aspects of mental health research concerned with human life resource and life potential, as well as applied aspects of health psychology.The editorial policy was based on the principles of selection and reviewing of all submitted manuscripts. At the first stage all the manuscripts underwent an initial review by the Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board before peer-review in order to assess whether their content complied with the Conference theme. The manuscripts which did not comply with the subject matter of the Conference have been rejected. At the second stage all the manuscripts underwent a double blind review process: each work was reviewed by two experts from the Board of Reviewers; reviewing procedure was anonymous both for the experts and authors.In case of positive review results provided by both experts the contributions were included in the Editor-in-Chief Portfolio. At the third stage manuscripts underwent scientific style as well as language literacy assessment and language editing. This work was carried out by the team of Language Editors. Based on the results of the three stages of reviewing the list of the manuscripts recommended for the publication in the Conference Proceedings has been defined.The problem of assessment, prophylaxis and preserving human psychological health is of utmost importance today. Its relevance is determined, first, by the fact that both a person and his / her development as a healthy and autonomous personality represent a subject of a psychological research. Second, recent global transformations impose special requirements to the person seeking for health preservation, self-development, and self-actualisation. Among these requirements there is readiness to act in new, unpredictable conditions, to make decisions in unstable situations and to bear responsibility for one's decisions. To meet these requirements, a person should be able to see opportunities for self-development and self-fulfillment in the surrounding world, finding new meanings of his / her life activity.Existence of life resource and life potential expands the scope of any person's activities, turning the person's significant life purposes into more achievable ones. Resources are known to subjectively increase the value of a person both in his / her self-perception and in the eyes of others, making the person stronger, more prominent and proactive.Among various human resources health is a fundamental one. At the same time, life potential is not a less important characteristic, since it ensures human capacity to create, develop and use life conditions, factors and circumstances which are beneficial for an organism.Considering human health through the prism of life potential, it is necessary that the value of health within culture of its formation should be the highest, being defined not so much by the need for self-preservation but for self-improvement.The presented Proceedings are the result of both scientific studies in Psychology and fruitful and prospective long-term inte...

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Transnational Relationships and Cultural Identity of Older Migrants

Cited by 26 publications

References 57 publications

Lonely ageing in a foreign land: Social isolation and loneliness among older Asian migrants in New Zealand

Lonely ageing in a foreign land: Social isolation and loneliness among older Asian migrants in New Zealand

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

Proceedings of the Iii International Scientific and Practical Conference “Psychological Health of the Person: Life Resource and Life Potential”

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