Such a pathway would allow home care workers to move into the formal home care market, live with greater dignity, and enforce their rights.
To Meet the Need for Home Care Workers, Provide a Pathway to Citizenship
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The COVID-19 Effect on Older Asian Immigrants
Anti-Asian violence, which has continued despite the pandemic slowing, impacts older immigrants’ psychological well-being as well as family dynamics and well-being.
Improving Economic Security for Undocumented Older Adults
Many such immigrant workers enter old age with no protections.
How Older Immigrant Workers Benefit from Unions and Worker Centers
Los Angeles is a case study in unions’ power to raise labor standards.
Apprehension and the Aging of Undocumented Parents
Precarious legal status of older parents can lead to continued economic precarity in future generations.
The State of Older Undocumented Immigrants and Their Health
Expanding Medicare coverage for all elders, combined with immigration reforms are needed to ensure this population can access healthcare.
New Older Immigrants in the U.S.: Challenges, Coping, and Intervention Strategies
To improve older immigrants’ health and well-being it’s critical to work with community organizations.
Accounting for the Diverse Experiences of Older Immigrants in Today’s America
Public benefits are not simply a supplement for older immigrants—they are a lifeline.
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Generations Today, vol. 43, no. 2 (Mar-Apr 2022)
To Meet the Need for Home Care Workers, Provide a Pathway to Citizenship
The ads are everywhere: on the radio as I walk through the grocery store, on the sides of buildings and following me as I browse the internet. They highlight building relationships with clients, helping older people with the tasks of daily living, and aiding people to...
The COVID-19 Effect on Older Asian Immigrants
Among adults ages 65 or older in the United States, Asians are the fastest-growing immigrant group. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, anti-Asian racist incidents (e.g., verbal harassment, physical assault, property vandalism) have spiked and many attacks...
Improving Economic Security for Undocumented Older Adults
While planning for retirement is an important concern for everyone, access to the economic resources needed for retirement is distributed unequally. One often overlooked demographic of older adults who face unequal risks in this area is undocumented workers who are...
How Older Immigrant Workers Benefit from Unions and Worker Centers
In the 1970s and 1980s, radical employment restructuring—including deindustrialization and the fissuring of traditional employment relationships—contributed to de-unionization. The labor market in Los Angeles changed drastically. The city lost much of its...
Apprehension and the Aging of Undocumented Parents
Popular images of undocumented immigrants often call to mind workers—nannies, gardeners, restaurant staff, factory and field workers, housekeepers—the list goes on. But these popular images present undocumented immigrants as one-dimensional, lone adults present in the...
The State of Older Undocumented Immigrants and Their Health
Accessing high-quality healthcare can be difficult for immigrants living in the United States, however, for older undocumented immigrants this difficulty is compounded by a combination of legal, cultural, language and systemic barriers that have widened the existing...
New Older Immigrants in the U.S.: Challenges, Coping, and Intervention Strategies
In 2019, immigrants made up 13.7% of the U.S. population, totaling 44 million people—that number having more than tripled since the 1970s. The immigrant population's median age in 2019 was 45.7 years, making it older than the U.S.-born population, which had a median...
Accounting for the Diverse Experiences of Older Immigrants in Today’s America
Margarita, a 72-year-old undocumented immigrant from Ecuador who lives in Union City, NJ, is afraid to leave the protective space of her enclave to attend a medical appointment in a nearby city. She has spent the past two decades in her Spanish-speaking community,...