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Age at migration and family dependency among older Mexican immigrants
— recent evidence from the Mexican American EPESE | | Author(s) | Ronald J Angel, Jacqueline L Angel, Geum-Yong Lee |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 39, no 1, February 1999 |
| Pages | pp 59-65 |
| Keywords | Ethnic groups ; Immigration ; Australia ; Age groups [elderly] ; Living patterns ; Social security benefits ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Data from the Hispanic Established Population for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (H-EPESE) is used to examine the impact of the age at which an individual immigrated to the US on his or her sources of income and living arrangements. In general, those immigrating after age 50 are more dependent on their families than the native born or those immigrating earlier in life. Although the findings should be treated with caution, given small sample sizes, later life immigrants are found to be less likely than native born or earlier life immigrants to have private pensions and social security income. They are also more likely to be living with their children and to be receiving money from them. The authors discuss the implications of recent restrictions on eligibility of even legal immigrants for Supplementary Social Income on intergenerational relations, and on the potential burden placed on the older immigrant's family, many of which may be seriously strained in hard economic times. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990331225 A |
| Classmark | TK: TNP: 7YA: BB: K7: JH: 3F: 7T |
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