Ageing and Migration Status: Intersectional Forms of Discrimination and Exclusion Volume II

Articles published in the first edition of this series can be read and downloaded here – Ageing and Migration Status: Intersectional Forms of Discrimination and Exclusion

As populations age, there is a growing interest amongst policymakers, businesses, and other stakeholders on ways to enable older people to 'actively age' through: interventions to promote healthy ageing; participation in social, economic, and civic affairs; and ensuring physical, social and income security. Older people's access to resources necessary for ageing well is impacted by socio-economic status. This in turn, draws attention to the policy and resource needs of communities of older people. One such community is older immigrants, those whom Warnes et al (2004) termed 'ageing in place', including economic migrants, asylum seekers and undocumented workers. For many, their life courses are characterized by precarious and disrupted careers, inaccessibility to public resources, and social isolation, in addition to age and race intersecting to create unique forms of discrimination. Thus, a multi-disciplinary focus is needed to apply an Active Ageing framework (World Health Organization, 2002) to enhance the lives of older immigrants.

The goal of this Research Topic is to explore how the WHO's Active Ageing framework can be used to understand how older immigrants experience the social, economic, and personal experience of ageing; the barriers they face to ageing well; and the public and social policy challenges of ensuring safe, participative, and healthy ageing within the older immigrant population. A multi-disciplinary approach is needed to understand older immigrants’ experiences of ageing and identify ways to promote active ageing. This Research Topic aims to explore how older immigrants' past experiences in social, economic, and civic spheres impact on present experiences preparing for and living through retirement, family and community engagement, and end-of-life care. It also seeks to generate a dialogue on the ways in which policymakers, businesses, third-sector organizations and older immigrants themselves can enhance active ageing within this community.

We welcome original research, systematic reviews, community case studies, research reports and policy reviews as well as general commentaries and opinion pieces on active ageing and immigration. Contributions are welcome from the perspectives of migration studies, public and social policy, sociology, health, psychology, and business, although this list is not exhaustive. To enhance the policy impact of this Research Topic, we especially encourage co-produced contributions between academics and members of immigrant communities. We welcome contributions addressing:

• How older immigrants experience ageing within social, economic and personal spheres
• Barriers which older immigrants face in ageing well
• Social and public policy challenges in enabling active ageing within the immigrant population
• The intersection of age and migration status in terms of lived experience
• Examples of good practice in active ageing with immigrants and how it can be disseminated, shared, and embedded.