Older people in America's immigrant families: Dilemmas of dependence,integration, and isolation |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Departamento de Sociología y Trabajo Social de la Universidad de Valladolid, Universidad de Valladolid, Campus María Zambrano 1, Segovia, 40005, Spain;2. Departamento de Economía Aplicada y Estadística de la Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Facultad de Económicas y Empresariales Senda del Rey 11, Madrid, Spain;1. College of Resources and Environment, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai''an 271018, Shandong, China;2. College of the Horticulture Science and Engineering, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai''an 271018, Shandong, China;1. Department of Geography, Environment, and Society, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA;2. Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA;3. Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Cambridge, MA, USA |
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| Abstract: | Immigration to the US has given rise to a population of older people who migrate here to be close to their children. Although highly integrated into their intergenerational families, these seniors voice dissatisfaction with their lives in the US. Intensive interviews with 28 transnational seniors demonstrate that their dissatisfaction stems from the contradictions between high cultural expectations for family sociability and structural constraints on kin interaction in the US. Their dissatisfaction is exacerbated by factors isolating them from social contacts outside the family. Although mobility limitations and not speaking English contribute to their isolation, immigrant families play a role. Older people are sometimes isolated by heavy domestic responsibilities in their child's household, solicitous offspring who insulate parents from practical aspects of daily life, and by a collective family ethos that calls on aging parents to subordinate their needs to those of other family members. |
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