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Dying away from home
— quandaries of migration for elders in two ethnic groups | | Author(s) | Gay Becker |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 57B, no 2, March 2002 |
| Pages | pp S79-S95 |
| Keywords | Asian people ; Cambodia ; Philippines ; Dying ; Immigrants ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | How Cambodian Americans and Philipino Americans view their homeland in old age and how those views affect their contemplation of death were examined, using a multifaceted theoretical framework encompassing transnationality, place, ethnic identity, continuity and cultural phenomenology. Three in-depth interviews were conducted with 48 Cambodian Americans and 78 Filipino Americans over a 1-year period. Both open-ended and semi-structured questions were asked to determine how respondents viewed their eventual deaths. Many in both groups expressed a desire to die in their homelands, but such desire was mediated by the presence or absence of extended family, memories of the homeland, and the availability of traditional ritual practices in the US. Respondents' preoccupations with where to die apparently reflects the desire to create continuity in their lives. In their efforts to reconcile issues of continuity, cultural meanings surrounding memory, ritual, and the family were paramount, and appeared to reflect a desire to bring closure to unresolved conflicts in their lifetime. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020614211 A |
| Classmark | TKK: 7HH: 7XK: CX: TJ: 7T |
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