IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCES AND CARE ARRANGEMENTS LATER IN LIFE: EVIDENCE FROM THE MARIEL BOATLIFT
Freya Diederich · 2023
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Freya Diederich studied how migration history shapes care in old age in a 2023 paper. Policy is often weighed by its laws alone, yet how a host land frames and views a migrant group can mark people for life. The Mariel boatlift of 1980, when many Cubans reached the United States, gives a sharp case.
Federal framing set these arrivals apart from other Cuban cohorts of the era. Diederich asks whether that early framing tracks with how the group arranges care decades later, as formal services or family help. The study shows why the welcome a cohort gets belongs in any account of later needs.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Freya Diederich |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |