14 Caregiving in Transnational Context: "My Wings Have Been Cut; Where Can I Fly?"

Spitzer, Denise L.; Neufeld, Anne; Harrison, Margaret; Hughes, Karen; Stewart, Miriam

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“…Some women challenged traditional gender roles “as a symbol of empowerment and autonomy,” and adopted a multicultural ethnic identity (Sadeghi, 2008, p. 221), whereas others maintained a strong identity with their cultural group but deviated from traditional gender roles (Mac & Alderson, 2009; Malhi, Boon, & Rogers, 2009). Others remained ambivalent about gender roles and continued to assume traditional gender roles (Samuel, 2010), such as providing care to elderly family members and children (Spitzer, Neufeld, Harrison, Hughes, & Stewart, 2003). Maintaining ties to their cultural communities provided foreign-born women with a sense of identity, a sense of well-being, and facilitated their integration in Canada (Berry & Blondel, 1982; Choi, Kushner, Mill, & Lai, 2014a; Safdar, Lay, & Struthers, 2003).…”

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Women’s experiences of immigration to Canada: A review of the literature.

Rezazadeh

Hoover

2018

Canadian Psychology / Psychologie canadienne

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This systematic review of the literature on the experiences of first-generation immigrant women in Canada was conducted with the aim of describing the factors found in the peer-reviewed literature that affect all aspects of their adjustment and well-being. This review was as broad as possible, while restricting it to peer-reviewed studies published from 1980 through 2015. On the basis of a comprehensive search of key databases (ERIC, PsycINFO, Medline, PubMed electronic databases, and university library e-journal sources), 166 peer-reviewed articles were identified whose results described some aspect of foreign-born women’s experiences in Canada. These articles were read and coded for (a) general topic of the study, (b) research methodology, (c) number of foreign-born women participants, (d) participant demographics (country of origin, legal status, and location within Canada), and (e) academic discipline of the study. A 3-step grounded theory approach was used to categorize the research topics of the articles. Six research topics emerged that exhaustively categorized all 166 articles: cultural transitioning, employment, housing, intimate partner violence, access to medical care, and mental health and well-being. The main findings of each article are described under those 6 topics. Foreign-born women faced economic, cultural, linguistic, and systemic barriers that impeded their access to health, social, and economic resources. Nonetheless, many studies revealed effective coping strategies and support networks that eased their transition to Canadian society. On the basis of these results, recommendations are made for further research on foreign-born women and for more effective and culturally sensitive mental health services.

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Women’s experiences of immigration to Canada: A review of the literature.

Rezazadeh

Hoover

2018

Canadian Psychology / Psychologie canadienne

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“…First, Bronfenbrenner contends that ‘ecological transition’ is the alteration of a person's position resulting from a shift in role/setting (Bronfenbrenner, 1979: 26–27). This notion recognises that immigration often requires the reconfiguration of familial roles as well as the navigation to a new health and social care system (Spitzer et al , 2003). Second, the phenomenon of social inequity was viewed as ‘consistent patterns of differentiation’ (Bronfenbrenner, 1979: 26), representing ecological differences among various socio-economic, ethnic and religious groups.…”

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Access to health care among racialised immigrants to Canada in later life: a theoretical and empirical synthesis

Lin

2021

Ageing and Society

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Evidence that immigrants tend to be underserved by the health-care system in the hosting country is well documented. While the impacts of im/migration on health-care utilisation patterns have been addressed to some extent in the existing literature, the conventional approach tends to homogenise the experience of racialised and White immigrants, and the intersecting power axes of racialisation, immigration and old age have been largely overlooked. This paper aims to consolidate three macro theories of health/behaviours, including Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory, the World Health Organization's paradigm of social determinants of health and Andersen's Behavioral Model of Health Service Use, to develop and validate an integrated multilevel framework of health-care access tailored for racialised older immigrants. Guided by this framework, a narrative review of 35 Canadian studies was conducted. Findings reveal that racial minority immigrants’ vulnerability in accessing health services are intrinsically linked to a complex interplay between racial-nativity status with numerous markers of power differences. These multilevel parameters range from socio-economic challenges, cross-cultural differences, labour and capital adequacy in the health sector, organisational accessibility and sensitivity, inter-sectoral policies, to societal values and ideology as forms of oppression. This review suggests that, counteracting a prevailing discourse of personal and cultural barriers to care, the multilevel framework is useful to inform upstream structural solutions to address power imbalances and to empower racialised immigrants in later life.

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“…For instance, Canada's Parent and Grandparent Super Visa are promoted as encouraging family reunification. However, the financial requirements and investment from adult children as sponsors penalize low-income households (Spitzer et al, 2003(Spitzer et al, , p. 2003. Ferrer has argued that the streamlined super visa program "categorize older adults as 'visitors' who must be surveilled and made ineligible for state benefits because of common perceptions that they consume valuable and scarce resources" (2015, p. 264).…”

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Caregiving Across International Borders: a Systematic Review of Literature on Transnational Carer-Employees

Sethi

Williams

Leung

2022

J Cross Cult Gerontol

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In diaspora and transnational studies little is known about the experiences of transnational carer-employees (TCEs). TCEs provide unpaid/informal care across international borders to an adult family member, friend, or relative with disability and/or age-related needs, while also working in paid employment in the country of resettlement. The primary focus of this systematic review was to examine how cultural and historical elements of transnational caregiving influence the economic, social, and health/well-being of TCEs. This systematic review draws on quantitative and qualitative peer-reviewed literature on TCEs’ experiences from Canada, the USA, or Australia between 1997 and 2017. In all, 16 articles that fulfilled the search inclusion criteria were selected. The articles were analyzed using content and thematic analysis. The review highlighted that transnational caregiving is a multi-dimensional phenomenon. There is a reciprocal relationship between adult children providing care to their parents and parents helping their children resettle in their new home. The findings suggest that TCEs provide practical, financial, and emotional care to their families abroad. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first comprehensive systematic review of the experiences of TCEs. Increasingly complex immigration experiences of transnational families require innovative policy responses from a transnational and intersectionality lens. Immigrants need support to maintain solid transnational networks and simultaneously adapt to the country of resettlement. Employers can use the findings to support TCEs in balancing unpaid care across vast geographical distances while sustaining their economic and social well-being.

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14 Caregiving in Transnational Context: "My Wings Have Been Cut; Where Can I Fly?"

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Women’s experiences of immigration to Canada: A review of the literature.

Women’s experiences of immigration to Canada: A review of the literature.

Access to health care among racialised immigrants to Canada in later life: a theoretical and empirical synthesis

Caregiving Across International Borders: a Systematic Review of Literature on Transnational Carer-Employees

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