Living Arrangements of Elderly Chinese and Japanese in the United States

Kamo, Yoshinori; Zhou, Min

doi:10.2307/352866

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“…(For instance, Khaled, 1995;Kocturk, 1992;Tienda & Booth, 1991;Vandsemb, 1995 present some general findings.) A few have begun to focus on elderly migrants (Becker & Beyene, 1999;Goldberg, 1996;Kamo & Zhou, 1994;Olmedo, 1999;Thomas, 1992), but there has been little, if any, research highlighting the effect the migration of families has on the nonmigrant kin. Since it is most often young men or young families who migrate, the nonmigrant kin are frequently the elderly who remain in the rural areas and/or in the country of origin.…”

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Elderly narrative reflections on the contradictions in Turkish village family life after migration of adult children

Coles

2001

Journal of Aging Studies

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Abstract:International and domestic labor migrations are changing the face of many countries. Those economic and demographic transitions collide with cultural expectations and ways of conducting intergenerational relations. This paper is a narrative analysis of some of those changes from the perspective of the elderly who remain behind in a small village in central Turkey. In particular, their narratives focus on filial expectations of sons and daughters, the status of mothers-in-law, health and economic well-being, and the future of village life. While these ''left behind'' elderly feel a loss of status and control and fear for their futures as their children pursue lifestyles unfamiliar and threatening to them, they are nevertheless gradually negotiating these changes and redefining late life to adapt to new circumstances and maintain their family relations.

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Elderly narrative reflections on the contradictions in Turkish village family life after migration of adult children

Coles

2001

Journal of Aging Studies

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“…For example, extant research suggests that Chinese American immigrant parents living in disadvantaged neighborhoods may have other resources to support their child rearing (e.g., social support from extended families, friends, or community organizations). Indeed, Kamo and Zhou (1994) found that elderly Asian Americans are more likely than their European American counterparts to live in extended family households, particularly in their married children's homes, suggesting that grandparents might be an important source of social support for Asian American parents.…”

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Neighborhood characteristics, parenting styles, and children’s behavioral problems in Chinese American immigrant families.

Lee

Zhou

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Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology

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Using data from a socioeconomically diverse sample of Chinese American children (n ϭ 258, aged 6 -9 years) in immigrant families, we examined the concurrent relations among neighborhood economic disadvantage and concentration of Asian residents, parenting styles, and Chinese American children's externalizing and internalizing problems. Neighborhood characteristics were measured with 2000 U.S. Census tract-level data, parents (mostly mothers) rated their own parenting styles, and parents and teachers rated children's behavioral problems. Path analysis was conducted to test two hypotheses: (a) parenting styles mediate the relations between neighborhood characteristics and children's behavioral problems, and (b) children's behavioral problems mediate the relations between neighborhood and parenting styles. We found that neighborhood Asian concentration was positively associated with authoritarian parenting, which in turn was associated with Chinese American children's higher externalizing and internalizing problems (by parents' reports). In addition, neighborhood economic disadvantage was positively related to children's externalizing problems (by parents' reports), which in turn predicted lower authoritative parenting. The current results suggest the need to consider multiple pathways in the relations among neighborhood, family, and child adjustment, and they have implications for the prevention and intervention of behavioral problems in Chinese American children.

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“…Nevertheless, there is general consensus that intergenerational coresidence is declining in most countries as a result of economic development. A minority of theorists, however, stress the cultural indelibility of family systems and suggest that traditional family forms are fundamental cultural structures that remain resilient to change (Huntington 1996;Therborn 2004;Kamo and Zhou 1994).The patrilineal joint-family and stem-family systems described by Le Play and subsequent theorists assume that wealth, property, and power are concentrated in the hands of oldergeneration men (Le Play 1884;Goldschmidt and Kunkel 1971;Berkner 1972;Mason 1992;Ruggles 1994). In such traditional families, the younger generation is dependent on the older generation, relying on elders for housing, employment, and the prospect of eventual inheritance.…”

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Intergenerational Coresidence in Developing Countries

Ruggles

Heggeness²

2008

Population & Development Rev

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A sizable literature suggests that coresidence of elderly persons with their children is on the decline in most developing countries. These studies draw on a long tradition of theories that postulate an inverse association between household complexity and economic development. Our analysis of this topic uses new data and measures to assess changes in intergenerational coresidence in 15 developing countries.We have three main objectives. First, we measure trends in intergenerational coresidence in developing countries from the perspective of both the younger generation and the older generation. Second, we assess trends in intergenerational coresidence by household headship patterns. Finally, we conduct multivariate analyses to control for changes in population composition and to assess the relationship between intergenerational coresidence and economic development.The results indicate no clear trends in intergenerational coresidence over the past several decades. Some countries experienced modest increases in coresidence; other countries had modest declines. Even more intriguing, when we focus on intergenerational families headed by the older generation-the family configuration most closely associated with traditional stem-family and joint-family systems-we find significant increases in all but two of the countries examined. This suggests that traditional family forms are stable or increasing across much of the developing world. Moreover, multivariate analyses reveal that key measures of economic development are positively associated with intergenerational families headed by the older generation. Theories of coresidence and developmentIn the second half of the nineteenth century, Frédéric Le Play proposed that economic development was contributing to a decline of intergenerational coresidence. Traditionally, Le Play argued, generations had been bound together by property. The younger generation remained in the ancestral home, providing labor as the family patriarch grew old and eventually inheriting the farm. With commercial and industrial growth in the nineteenth century, fewer families had property to hand down. As a consequence, Le Play contended, more and more of the elderly began to reside separately from their children (Le Play 1884: 3-28).The idea that economic development is associated with simplification of the household and independent residence of the elderly became widely accepted in the twentieth century. Midtwentieth-century sociological literature highlighted the connection between industrialization and nuclear-family structure (e.g., Parsons 1949;Nimkoff 1962). Intergenerational coresidence was said to be undermined by growing wage labor opportunities, which provided incentives for the younger generation to leave the farm and move to urban areas. Moreover, many theorists argued that small nuclear families were best adapted to urban societies characterized by high geographic and social mobility (Wirth 1938;Parsons and Bales 1955;Burgess 1960). NIH Public Access Author ManuscriptPopul Dev Rev. Autho...

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Living Arrangements of Elderly Chinese and Japanese in the United States

Cited by 106 publications

References 21 publications

Elderly narrative reflections on the contradictions in Turkish village family life after migration of adult children

Elderly narrative reflections on the contradictions in Turkish village family life after migration of adult children

Neighborhood characteristics, parenting styles, and children’s behavioral problems in Chinese American immigrant families.

Intergenerational Coresidence in Developing Countries

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