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ArticleJournal of cross-cultural gerontology2022

In the Shadows of Others: Unheard Voices of Older Russian Immigrant Women in the United States.

Polina Ermoshkina, Kate B de Medeiros

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Article in Journal of cross-cultural gerontology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Polina ErmoshkinaDepartment of Sociology, Case Western Reserve University, 226 Mather Memorial Building, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA. pxe53@case.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3613-5495
Kate B de MedeirosDepartment of Sociology and Gerontology, Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Older post-Soviet immigrants in the U.S. have been largely overlooked by research despite their unique experience of having lived in a totalitarian regime until middle age, only to find their lives profoundly altered after its fall. Our qualitative study examined the experiences and caregiving expectations of 16 older post-Soviet immigrant women (mean age = 74.5 years, SD =5.8) through in-depth, face-to-face interviews. Data analysis revealed four themes: broken family ties, happiness in the little things that money can buy, intergenerational comparison, and a nursing home is not an option. Overall, our findings emphasize immigration as an important life course event, with profound implications to one's social position, familial ties, employment opportunities contributes to a deeper understanding of how historical context shapes the aging experiences and intergenerational relationships.

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Emigrants and ImmigrantsEmigration and ImmigrationAgedAgingFemaleHumansQualitative ResearchRussiaUnited StatesCaregiving expectationsFormer Soviet Union older immigrantsIntergenerational relationshipsSoviet UnionThematic analysisWorld War II

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