Flores Morales Josefina
California Center for Population Research University of California Los Angeles-Sociology Los Angeles California USA.
Sociol Compass. 2021 Apr;15(4):e12859. doi: 10.1111/soc4.12859. Epub 2021 Mar 1.
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.
无证身份与低工资、从事高风险职业以及难以获得良好医疗保健密切相关。尽管有大量关于年轻无证移民的文献，但令人惊讶的是，我们对年长无证成年人的社会生活知之甚少。关于移民健康悖论的文献对不平等的社会状况会导致自我报告的健康状况和死亡率较差这一观点提出了质疑，但这些研究中很少有将移民身份视为一个动态变量的。在回顾有关年长移民和少数族裔的研究时，我指出无证老年人作为一个人口群体的出现值得研究人员和政策制定者关注。这种联系为理解分层和不平等提供了重要教训。这篇综述提供了新的研究方向，考虑到无证变老的多层次后果。我认为，我们需要仔细的实证研究来考察通过政策进行的排斥的持续性如何在老年时期基于移民身份和种族化加剧不平等，而不是认为年长的无证移民正在步入被排斥的境地。
