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Ethnicity and Old Age : Expanding our Imagination /
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 div...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago, IL :
Policy Press,
2019.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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