Immigrant Women: Making Connections to Community Resources for Support in Family Caregiving

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

doi:10.1177/10432302012006003

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“…Both the review and the consultation showed that language can inhibit access to health care for carers whose first or preferred language is not English (Katbamna et al, 1998a;Gerrish, 2001;Neufield et al, 2002). One solution is to make more use of interpreting services, yet Gerrish (2001) found that district nurses rarely use these services.…”

Section: Barriers Related To Language or Culturally Held Beliefs And mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Unpaid carers' access to and use of primary care services

Arksey

Hirst

2005

prim health care res dev

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This is an author produced version of the article published. This paper has been peer-reviewed but does not include the journal pagination. AbstractGPs and members of the primary care team have a pivotal role in supporting unpaid carers in their caring role and helping them to maintain their own health and well-being. This paper investigates the difference that caregiving makes to individuals' access to and use of GP and primary care services. It is based on longitudinal analysis of carers' contacts with GPs, and a review of the literature including evaluations of measures to improve primary care-based support for carers. Men increase their consultation rates with GPs when taking on a caring role. In contrast, women who look after someone in the same household and carry heavy caring responsibilities have relatively less contact with GPs than expected. According to the literature, carers report a range of difficulties accessing primary health care. A fivefold typology is described covering barriers arising from: professional responses to the carers' role, the way services are organised and delivered, language or culturally held beliefs and practices, carer or care recipient characteristics, and unmet information needs. Various measures to improve carers' access to primary care have been introduced to overcome these barriers, but robust evidence of cost and utility is required to judge their acceptability and effectiveness for both carers and GPs. Although 3 good practice guides, quality standards and evaluation tools are available to help improve primary care support for carers, further investigation of carers' help-seeking for health care, and the factors involved, is required to underpin the prospects for developing a genuine partnership between unpaid carers and health professionals.

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Section: Barriers Related To Language or Culturally Held Beliefs And mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Recent immigrant and refugee carers face wide-ranging access problems (such as language difficulties, racism, discrimination, lack of knowledge, uncertain status, limited means and social support) given their unfamiliarity with the types of services available (Neufield et al, 2002).…”

Section: Barriers Related To Language or Culturally Held Beliefs And mentioning

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Unpaid carers' access to and use of primary care services

Arksey

Hirst

2005

prim health care res dev

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“…The work of Edwards (1998), Neufeld et al (2002), Riessman (2000) and Temple (2002) are all examples of a move away from an attempt solely to find equivalence between words across languages and reflexively debate with the translators the choices they had to make in producing written text. For example, Temple's work with Asian Support Workers (2002) involved the two workers collecting the data and carrying out research on mental health issues with Asian communities.…”

Section: T R a N S L Ato R S Wo R K I N G W I T H R E S E A Rc H E R Smentioning

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“…Neufeld et al's (2002) ethnographic study of how immigrant Chinese and South Asian women caregivers in Canada accessed support from community resources used a similar method of employing translators to collect data, transcribe it and participate in discussions about its interpretation. Edwards (1998), Neufeld et al (2002) and Temple (2002) specifically concern themselves with word and concept choice and the transcription/ translation process. Edwards made a decision in her research to encourage the interpreter/translator to use the third person rather than translate literally what someone had said.…”

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Qualitative Research and Translation Dilemmas

Temple¹,

Young

2004

Qualitative Research

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The focus of this article is an examination of translation dilemmas in qualitative research. Specifically it explores three questions: whether methodologically it matters if the act of translation is identified or not; the epistemological implications of who does translation; and the consequences for the final product of how far the researcher chooses to involve a translator in research. Some of the ways in which researchers have tackled language difference are discussed. The medium of spoken and written language is itself critically challenged by considering the implications of similar ‘problems of method’ but in situations where the translation and interpretation issues are those associated with a visual spatial medium, in this case Sign Language. The authors argue that centring translation and how it is dealt with raises issues of representation that should be of concern to all researchers.

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“…Often, the migration motivation of a male figure is the primary focus of immigration scholarship, with a female partner seen as a secondary actor who follows a husband or boyfriend to the new host country (Cerrutti & Massey, 2001;Glick, 2010); this is particularly true in literature on border crossing, which has focused primarily on Latino men (DeLuca, McEwen, & Keim, 2010;Infante, Idrovo, Sanchez-Dominguez, Vinhas, & GonzalezVazquez, 2012). However, women have their own considerations and experiences when migrating, particularly when responsible for the care of others (Neufield, Harrison, Stewart, Hughes, & Spitzer, 2002). The changing global economy has created economic opportunities for women, leading to the "feminization of migration" (Falicov, 2007, p. 160).…”

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Turning Points and Transitions: The Role of Family in Women’s Immigration Experiences

Vesely

Goodman

Scurlock

2014

ijcyfs

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Given the significant number of immigrants in the United States, especially immigrant families with young children, there is a need to better understand the experiences of immigrant women, and especially immigrant mothers. In particular, the factors impacting women's decisions to migrate, migration journeys, and post-migration adjustment should be examined. Framed in family life course theory and using ethnographic, in-depth interviews, we explored these three immigration phases for 40 first-generation Latina and African immigrant women who experienced motherhood in the U.S. Results of the study expand the literature focused on immigration experiences by considering turning points and transitions in women's migration processes, as they are shaped by both micro-(family) and macro-(socio-historical) level factors. The findings illustrate the spontaneous nature of some decisions to migrate, as well as how immigration journeys are influenced by the financial and physical supports of families and the status of their documentation. In addition, study findings point to motherhood as an important turning point for first-generation immigrant women in their adjustment to life in the U.S., and particularly in their planning with respect to staying long term. Implications for programs, policy, and future research are discussed.

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Immigrant Women: Making Connections to Community Resources for Support in Family Caregiving

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Unpaid carers' access to and use of primary care services

Unpaid carers' access to and use of primary care services

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Turning Points and Transitions: The Role of Family in Women’s Immigration Experiences

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