Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Aging and Care (CIRAC), University of Graz, Schubertstraße 23/1, 8010, Graz, Austria.
Z Gerontol Geriatr. 2024 Jul;57(4):272-277. doi: 10.1007/s00391-024-02328-x. Epub 2024 Jun 21.
Older migrants are considered a vulnerable population group in many ways. Marginalization and social exclusion lead to unequal opportunities for social participation.
In order to break down barriers for older migrants, the perspectives of people with migration biographies should be given greater consideration.
To this end, the results of an explorative intersectional ethical analysis of care narratives of older migrants are discussed in the light of aging studies research. The focus is on the ethical analysis of five guided interviews with older migrants between 65 and 80 years old, who have migrated from different countries in southeastern Europe.
In contrast to the prevalent expert perspective, the narratives of the older migrants interviewed revealed not only resistance to vulnerabilization but also multiple negotiations of autonomy and dependency. By making ambivalent narrative and action strategies visible and linking them to narratives of intergenerational care relationships, the significance of care-ethical interpretations of vulnerability and characterization of vulnerability as "a universal, inevitable, and anthropological feature of humanity resulting from the embodied, finite, and socially contingent structure of human existence" [4] can be demonstrated.
在许多方面，老年移民都被视为一个弱势群体。边缘化和社会排斥导致他们在社会参与方面机会不平等。
为了打破老年移民的障碍，应该更多地考虑具有移民背景的人的观点。
为此，根据老龄化研究，讨论了对老年移民护理叙事的探索性交叉伦理分析的结果。重点是对 5 名年龄在 65 至 80 岁之间、来自东南欧不同国家的老年移民的 5 次引导性访谈进行伦理分析。
与普遍的专家观点相反，接受采访的老年移民的叙述不仅揭示了对脆弱性的抵制，还揭示了对自主性和依赖性的多次协商。通过使矛盾的叙述和行动策略变得可见，并将其与代际护理关系的叙述联系起来，可以证明脆弱性的关怀伦理解释的重要性，以及将脆弱性描述为“由于人类存在的有形、有限和社会偶然性结构而导致的人类普遍、不可避免和人类学特征”的重要性[4]。
