TY - JOUR
T1 - Immigration and generational solidarity
T2 - Elderly Soviet immigrants and their adult children in Israel
AU - Khvorostianov, Natalia
AU - Remennick, Larissa
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PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Immigration in later life is an extremely stressful life event. When multigenerational families resettle together, elders turn to their adult children for support, while both generations face challenges of integration. Drawing on the framework of intergenerational solidarity-conflict-ambivalence, this qualitative study explores the relationships between elderly, ex-Soviet immigrants and their adult children in Israel. The findings illuminate the declining personal resources and family status of the elders, as well as their main coping strategies. Both generations try to discover a new balance among the old and new cultural expectations, reciprocity, and use of available, formal, geriatric services.
AB - Immigration in later life is an extremely stressful life event. When multigenerational families resettle together, elders turn to their adult children for support, while both generations face challenges of integration. Drawing on the framework of intergenerational solidarity-conflict-ambivalence, this qualitative study explores the relationships between elderly, ex-Soviet immigrants and their adult children in Israel. The findings illuminate the declining personal resources and family status of the elders, as well as their main coping strategies. Both generations try to discover a new balance among the old and new cultural expectations, reciprocity, and use of available, formal, geriatric services.
KW - Immigration
KW - Israel
KW - Multigenerational families
KW - Solidarity
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U2 - 10.1080/15350770.2015.992758
DO - 10.1080/15350770.2015.992758
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SN - 1535-0770
VL - 13
SP - 34
EP - 50
JO - Journal of Intergenerational Relationships
JF - Journal of Intergenerational Relationships
IS - 1
ER -
