Cargando…

Aging and undocumented: The sociology of aging meets immigration status

Being undocumented is strongly correlated with low wages, employment in high risk occupations, and poor healthcare access. We know surprisingly little about the social lives of older undocumented adults despite the vast literature about youth and young undocumented migrants. Literature about the imm...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Flores Morales, Josefina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8047879/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33868455
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12859
_version_ 1783679129621626880
author Flores Morales, Josefina
author_facet Flores Morales, Josefina
author_sort Flores Morales, Josefina
collection PubMed
description Being undocumented is strongly correlated with low wages, employment in high risk occupations, and poor healthcare access. We know surprisingly little about the social lives of older undocumented adults despite the vast literature about youth and young undocumented migrants. Literature about the immigrant health paradox casts doubts on the argument that unequal social conditions translate to poorer self‐reported health and mortality, but few of these studies consider immigration status as the dynamic variable that it is. Reviewing research about older migrants and minorities, I point to the emergence of undocumented older persons as a demographic group that merits attention from researchers and policymakers. This nexus offers important lessons for understanding stratification and inequality. This review offers new research directions that take into account multilevel consequences of growing old undocumented. Rather than arguing that older‐aged undocumented migrants are aging into exclusion, I argue that we need careful empirical research to examine how the continuity of exclusion via policies can magnify inequalities on the basis of immigration status and racialization in older age.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-8047879
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2021
publisher John Wiley and Sons Inc.
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-80478792021-04-16 Aging and undocumented: The sociology of aging meets immigration status Flores Morales, Josefina Sociol Compass Social Stratification Being undocumented is strongly correlated with low wages, employment in high risk occupations, and poor healthcare access. We know surprisingly little about the social lives of older undocumented adults despite the vast literature about youth and young undocumented migrants. Literature about the immigrant health paradox casts doubts on the argument that unequal social conditions translate to poorer self‐reported health and mortality, but few of these studies consider immigration status as the dynamic variable that it is. Reviewing research about older migrants and minorities, I point to the emergence of undocumented older persons as a demographic group that merits attention from researchers and policymakers. This nexus offers important lessons for understanding stratification and inequality. This review offers new research directions that take into account multilevel consequences of growing old undocumented. Rather than arguing that older‐aged undocumented migrants are aging into exclusion, I argue that we need careful empirical research to examine how the continuity of exclusion via policies can magnify inequalities on the basis of immigration status and racialization in older age. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-03-01 2021-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8047879/ /pubmed/33868455 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12859 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Sociology Compass published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
spellingShingle Social Stratification
Flores Morales, Josefina
Aging and undocumented: The sociology of aging meets immigration status
title Aging and undocumented: The sociology of aging meets immigration status
title_full Aging and undocumented: The sociology of aging meets immigration status
title_fullStr Aging and undocumented: The sociology of aging meets immigration status
title_full_unstemmed Aging and undocumented: The sociology of aging meets immigration status
title_short Aging and undocumented: The sociology of aging meets immigration status
title_sort aging and undocumented: the sociology of aging meets immigration status
topic Social Stratification
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8047879/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33868455
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12859
work_keys_str_mv AT floresmoralesjosefina agingandundocumentedthesociologyofagingmeetsimmigrationstatus