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Alama, Ernie Z.

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The experience of sponsored Filipino seniors in providing support to immigrant families in Canada: A grounded theory inquiry.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The experience of sponsored Filipino seniors in providing support to immigrant families in Canada: A grounded theory inquiry./
Author:	Alama, Ernie Z.
Description:	306 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-08, Section: A, page: 3050.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-08A.
Subject:	Gerontology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NR62135
ISBN:	9780494621356

The experience of sponsored Filipino seniors in providing support to immigrant families in Canada: A grounded theory inquiry.
Alama, Ernie Z.

The experience of sponsored Filipino seniors in providing support to immigrant families in Canada: A grounded theory inquiry. - 306 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-08, Section: A, page: 3050.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Calgary (Canada), 2010.

Sponsored Filipino seniors are among the 11 million Filipinos dispersed in more than 190 countries. Along with other sponsored seniors, they are marked or stigmatized as potential 'drainers' of government funded health and social welfare funding. The purpose of this study was to learn about the experience of sponsored Filipino seniors in providing support to their immigrant families in Canada. The stories of eleven male and female participants not only revealed the nature of support to their families but also their experiences in the context of the struggle for survival and settlement in a foreign land. Using constructivist grounded theory as a method of inquiry, the emerging categories led to an understanding that this sponsored group are among the Filipinos in diaspora, an overarching theoretical construct that best reflects their experience as Filipino seniors. As diaspora, they experienced the "pushing" and "pulling" realities embedded in the family demands that led to their sponsorship and emigration while coping with the demands of a newly constructed reality in the hostland. This exploratory examination of the stories of sponsored Filipino seniors tells us that they did not come to Canada to be supported by their adult children but to provide support to their families. As this study may be one of the few attempts to focus on the experiences of sponsored Filipino seniors in Canada, it is hoped that the emerging constructs may inform policy makers and Canadian society about the complexity associated with sponsorship of seniors. The diasporic experiences of sponsored Filipino seniors contribute to emerging theories and conceptual discourse around diaspora, transnational identity, motherwork and subsistence, and productive aging. Most importantly, the findings invite opportunities for future research relating to transnational motherwork and subsistence of sponsored immigrant seniors as well as the diasporic experience of Filipinos.

ISBN: 9780494621356Subjects--Topical Terms:

533633
Gerontology.

The experience of sponsored Filipino seniors in providing support to immigrant families in Canada: A grounded theory inquiry.
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