Ludwig-Dehm Sarah M, Dones Iuna, Ciobanu Ruxandra Oana
Faculty of Social Work (HETS/HES-SO), University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Geneva, Switzerland.
Faculty of Social Work (HETSL/HES-SO), University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Ch. des Abeilles 14, 1010 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Comp Migr Stud. 2023;11(1):8. doi: 10.1186/s40878-023-00331-6. Epub 2023 Apr 5.
Since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, people have been worried about COVID-19. As one of the risk groups, persons aged 65 and older are especially vulnerable. Additionally, minorities and migrants are hit harder by the pandemic than natives. Using data from the TransAge survey, a study including over 3000 older persons (65+) living in Switzerland and Italy, we show that the levels of worry about the pandemic are significantly higher among Italian international migrants living in Switzerland than among Swiss natives. We are not able to fully explain the difference using sociodemographic variables, the COVID-19 situation at the time of the interview, and international migrants' transnationalism behavior. Nevertheless, transnationalism explains a large part of the difference in worry between the two groups and our study sheds light on the importance of two specific transnational aspects, having Swiss nationality and voting behavior, for the prevention of elevated levels of worry of international migrants.
自2020年疫情开始以来，人们一直担心新冠病毒。作为风险群体之一，65岁及以上的人群尤其脆弱。此外，少数族裔和移民受疫情的影响比本地人更严重。利用“跨年龄”调查的数据，一项涵盖3000多名居住在瑞士和意大利的65岁及以上老年人的研究表明，居住在瑞士的意大利国际移民对疫情的担忧程度明显高于瑞士本地人。我们无法通过社会人口变量、访谈时的新冠疫情状况以及国际移民的跨国主义行为来完全解释这种差异。然而，跨国主义在很大程度上解释了两组人群在担忧程度上的差异，我们的研究揭示了瑞士国籍和投票行为这两个特定跨国因素对于预防国际移民过度担忧的重要性。
