Exploring older women's citizenship

Understanding the impact of migration in later life

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11201628
AutoresJoanne Cook (0000-0002-2499-0083, University of Stirling, autor correspondente)
Ano2010
Volume30
Fascículo2
Páginas253-273
Data de publicação2010-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAgeing and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0144-686X • E-ISSN: 1469-1779
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0144686x09990195
OpenAlexW2156192039
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas17
Referências citadas30

Research on the ways in which having been an international migrant in later life shapes the welfare needs, preferences and expectations of non-native older people in rich countries is in its infancy, for both the ageing and migration fields have been slow to examine the experiences of older migrants. This paper focuses upon the welfare citizenship experiences of older women who migrated in later life to England, either as refugees or as post-retirement migrants. It reports findings from interviews and focus groups conducted with black Caribbean, Irish, Chinese and Somali older women migrants in Sheffield, Yorkshire, UK, as part of the Older Women's Lives and Voices Study. The paper explores their experiences of accessing welfare citizenship and the barriers they encountered in accessing mainstream services. In particular, it examines the unequal platform from which older migrants who do not speak English access welfare citizenship rights and services, and assesses the important constraints of discrimination and language differences. Despite the obstacles, the older women participants were actively pursuing their inclusion in welfare rights and services. The paper argues for more recognition of the important enabling role that informal systems of support provided by participation in community or cultural organisations plays in the welfare citizenship and agency of minority ethnic older women

Agency (philosophy) · Citizenship · Ethnic group · Immigration · Inclusion (mineral) · Irish · Mainstream · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Social science · Sociology · Somali · Welfare · Welfare reform · Gender Studies · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies