Title Ethnicity and old age : expanding our imagination / Sandra Torres

Published United Kingdom ; Chicago, IL : Policy Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource Series Ageing in a global context Ageing in a global context. Contents Intro; ETHNICITY AND OLD AGE; Contents; About the author; Preface; Series editors' preface; Part 1. Setting the stage for theorising; 1. Introduction; Engaging in a theorising exercise: the why and how of it; The book's raison d'être: wanting to expand our imagination; Timing: why now?; The scientific communities that this book addresses; Structure of the book: the what and the why; 2. Population ageing and international migration; Population ageing: demography and discourse; Globalisation and the study of culture; Transnationalism: a specific aspect of globalisation Globalisation and the study of migration, 'periphery' and inequalityGlobalisation: the implications for the intersection of ethnicity and old age; Concluding remarks; 3. Ethnicity and race: from essentialism to constructionism; Ethnicity and race: seemingly straightforward yet elusive constructs; Essentialist/primordialist perspective on ethnicity and race; Structuralist/circumstantialist perspective on ethnicity and race; Concluding remarks; Part 2. Theorising via a scoping review: what we know and need to find out; 4. Literature on health inequalities; Main trends observed Concluding remarks5. Literature on health and social care; Main trends observed; Concluding remarks; 6. Literature on social relations and caregiving; Main trends observed; Concluding remarks; 7. A new agenda: where we are at and need to head for; Obstacles posed by the lack of an explicit research agenda; Obstacles posed by narrow samples, perspectives and reference categories; Obstacles posed by structure- and culture-obliviousness; Obstacles posed by reliance on a small number of methodological approaches; Obstacles posed by our choice of dissemination outlets Obstacles posed by the stagnation in understandings of ethnicity and raceObstacles posed by lack of analytic clarity; Unleashing our imagination; References; Appendix: how the scoping review was conducted; Selecting the databases used to identify the peer-reviewed articles; Sampling criteria: deciding which articles to include; Analysing the literature: sorting out and coding; Deciding which references to allude to explicitly; Index Summary By bringing attention to the way that ethnicity and race have been addressed in research on ageing and old age, with a focus on health inequalities, health and social care, intergenerational relationships and caregiving, this book proposes how research can be developed in an ethnicity astute and diversity informed manner Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 11, 2019) Subject Ethnicity. Race. Immigrants -- Retirement Older immigrants -- Care Globalization -- Social aspects Racial Groups ethnicity. race (group of people) SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Ethnicity Globalization -- Social aspects Race Form Electronic book ISBN 9781447328148 1447328140 9781447328162 1447328167 9781447328155 1447328159

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