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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...
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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