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New Experiences, Inequalities and Practices at the Intersections of Ageing, Gender and Migration
New Experiences, Inequalities and Practices at the Intersections of Ageing, Gender and Migration
Abstract Submissions Closed
Friday, 26 February 2021: 14:15-15:45
Location:
RC11 Sociology of Aging (host committee)
Language: English
Session Type: Oral
Globally, increasing levels of mobility and migration have changed the way individuals, families, and societies age. It has done so in diverse and gendered ways, creating new individual experiences of ageing and new family structures, practices, and norms of obligation and support as we age. It has also created more diverse population structures and new challenges, and opportunities, for policy. One consequence is the production of new forms of inequality and exclusion at the intersections of age, gender and migrant background.Increasing levels of migration has therefore raised questions such as: what is the relationship between individual migration projects, gender and experiences and expectations of ageing? How does migration reconfigure family obligations and practices around the provision of care and support? What does migration mean for popular approaches to policy such as ‘active ageing’, ‘productive ageing’ and ‘ageing in place’?
We welcome papers on:
- The gendered experiences of being an older migrant
- The health and aged care needs of older migrant women and men
- The ways in which migrant families organise the care and support of older members, and the ways that older members are involved in the care and support of others
- The role of migrant men and women in working in formal aged care markets
- Participation in paid work by the mature age migrant workforce
- The ways in which institutions and policies shape opportunities for inclusion, and entrench exclusion, of older migrant women and men.
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