In the Shadows of Others: Unheard Voices of Older Russian Immigrant Women in the United States.

Autor: Ermoshkina P; Department of Sociology, Case Western Reserve University, 226 Mather Memorial Building, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA. pxe53@case.edu., de Medeiros KB; Department of Sociology and Gerontology, Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of cross-cultural gerontology [J Cross Cult Gerontol] 2022 Mar; Vol. 37 (1), pp. 69-88. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Jan 13.
DOI: 10.1007/s10823-021-09446-8
Abstrakt: Older post-Soviet immigrants in the U.S. have been largely overlooked by research despite their unique experience of having lived in a totalitarian regime until middle age, only to find their lives profoundly altered after its fall. Our qualitative study examined the experiences and caregiving expectations of 16 older post-Soviet immigrant women (mean age = 74.5 years, SD =5.8) through in-depth, face-to-face interviews. Data analysis revealed four themes: broken family ties, happiness in the little things that money can buy, intergenerational comparison, and a nursing home is not an option. Overall, our findings emphasize immigration as an important life course event, with profound implications to one's social position, familial ties, employment opportunities contributes to a deeper understanding of how historical context shapes the aging experiences and intergenerational relationships.
(© 2021. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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