Montayre Jed, Neville Stephen, Holroyd Eleanor
a Nursing Department, School of Clinical Sciences , Auckland University of Technology , Auckland , New Zealand.
b Melbourne School of Population and Global Health , University of Melbourne , Victoria , Australia.
Int J Qual Stud Health Well-being. 2017 Dec;12(1):1347011. doi: 10.1080/17482631.2017.1347011.
To explore the experiences of older Filipino migrants adjusting to living permanently in New Zealand.
The qualitative descriptive approach taken in this study involved 17 individual face-to-face interviews of older Filipino migrants in New Zealand.
Three main themes emerged from the data. The first theme was "moving backwards and moving forward", which described how these older Filipino migrants adjusted to challenges they experienced with migration. The second theme was "engaging with health services" and presented challenges relating to the New Zealand healthcare system, including a lack of knowledge of the nature of health services, language barriers, and differences in cultural views. The third theme, "new-found home", highlighted establishing a Filipino identity in New Zealand and adjusting to the challenges of relocation.
Adjustment to life in New Zealand for these older Filipino migrants meant starting over again by building new values through learning the basics and then moving forward from there.
探讨菲律宾老年移民适应在新西兰永久居住的经历。
本研究采用定性描述方法,对17名在新西兰的菲律宾老年移民进行了个人面对面访谈。
数据中出现了三个主要主题。第一个主题是“向后退与向前进”,描述了这些菲律宾老年移民如何应对移民过程中遇到的挑战。第二个主题是“与医疗服务机构接触”,呈现了与新西兰医疗体系相关的挑战,包括对医疗服务性质缺乏了解、语言障碍以及文化观念差异。第三个主题“新家园”,强调了在新西兰确立菲律宾身份认同以及应对搬迁挑战。
对于这些菲律宾老年移民来说,适应新西兰的生活意味着要重新开始,通过学习基础知识建立新的价值观,然后在此基础上不断前进。