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| Policy and practice implications from the lives of aging international migrant women | | Author(s) | Fiona M Patterson |
| Journal title | International Social Work, vol 47, no 1, January 2004 |
| Pages | pp 25-38 |
| Source | www.sagepublications.com/ejournals |
| Keywords | Older women ; Black Caribbean ; Asian people ; Qualitative Studies ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The 25 Pennsylvania women interviewed for this study initially came to the US to study, work, visit family, or to accompany or join a husband usually for reasons related to his employment. This article reports on the policy and practice implications of their experiences as adults in the 10 to 15 years before being interviewed in 1998-99. All 25 were born in the Caribbean (Puerto Rico or the West Indies) or in Asia (China, India or South Korea) and had reached the ages of 60 to 89. Although the study was qualitative and is not generalisable within or between the ethnic groups considered, the respondents' stories prove to be rich experiences, with attitudes that merit the careful attention of social workers and policy makers. As well as experiences of immigration and with acculturation, each informant had lived through many other changes. Although most are relatively self-sufficient, they remain at high risk of poverty, cultural isolation and dependence on public services in the years ahead, because of their gender, race and ethnicity. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040301203 A |
| Classmark | BD: TKG: TKK: 3DP: 7T |
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