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Negotiating Social Protection and Care: A Study of First-Generation Older Turkish Community in London

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posted on 2024-05-09, 10:02 authored by Melisa Yazdanpanahi

Access to social protection in old age is crucial and yet contingent upon negotiations between the social structures of the welfare states and the personal networks within which individuals are embedded. International migration, changing family dynamics, and the transformation of care and other welfare policies in the global North make it challenging for older migrants to negotiate social protection. Drawing on 45 semi-structured interviews with first-generation older Turkish migrants in London and 13 semi-structured interviews with professional service providers for the community, the paper aims to investigate the assemblages of formal and informal social protection in the lives of older migrants. Findings indicate the complexity in accessing informal social protection and the navigation of formal care support in the UK for first generation older Turkish migrants and the contingency of access to formal care services on informal support networks for participants. It has been demonstrated that built infrastructure and policies aimed at older adults have great influence on assemblages of care, highlighting the need for more age-friendly and integrated policies to facilitate access to social protection for diverse groups of older adults.

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College of Social Sci Arts and Humanities/School of Business

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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Ageing International

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

issn

0163-5158

eissn

1936-606X

Copyright date

2023

Available date

2024-05-09

Language

en

Deposited by

Dr Melisa Yazdanpanahi

Deposit date

2024-05-03

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