"En trygghet att få åldras bland de sina"- En analys av diskussionen om etniska äldreboenden
(2014) SOPA63 20141School of Social Work
- Abstract
- The aim of this study was to understand how elderly immigrants are being categorized in the discussion about ethnical elderly homes and which descriptions of problems are used to argue for the existence of the ethnical homes, from a social constructionist point of view. Furthermore, we investigate who the claims-makers are and how concepts such as ethnicity and culture are portrayed in this discussion. The data consist of articles from newspapers and magazines, as well as websites of the ethnical elderly homes. We also included nationalist internet-based newspapers which use a similar way of making distinctions between Swedes and elderly immigrants. The purpose of this was to understand how the different data related to each other. In the... (More)
- The aim of this study was to understand how elderly immigrants are being categorized in the discussion about ethnical elderly homes and which descriptions of problems are used to argue for the existence of the ethnical homes, from a social constructionist point of view. Furthermore, we investigate who the claims-makers are and how concepts such as ethnicity and culture are portrayed in this discussion. The data consist of articles from newspapers and magazines, as well as websites of the ethnical elderly homes. We also included nationalist internet-based newspapers which use a similar way of making distinctions between Swedes and elderly immigrants. The purpose of this was to understand how the different data related to each other. In the discussion about elderly immigrants and public care distinctions are commonly made between this category and Swedish elders. Firstly, we found that ethnical elderly homes are often described as a solution to issues of communication and isolation in public elderly care which occur due to language differences between the caregiver and the caretaker, but also as a solution for the cultural dilemmas which elderly immigrants face when in contact with the public care. Secondly, we discovered, from our qualitative data analysis, that it is common for distinctions to be made between elderly immigrants and elderly Swedes in all of the data, but that the nationalist authors use normative and moral values to highlight issues connected to immigration and society. Lastly, we found that elderly immigrants are usually described as a homogeneous group who are different in relation to Swedish elders, both in terms of cultural background and needs when getting older, and that they are seldom the claims-makers in the discussion. (Less)
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- author
- Posada, Rebecca LU and Hansson, Therese LU
- supervisor
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- Håkan Jönson LU
- organization
- course
- SOPA63 20141
- year
- 2014
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- ethnic* elderly homes, ethnicity and elderly care, elderly immigrants, multicultural care
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 4460448
- date added to LUP
- 2014-06-13 14:43:56
- date last changed
- 2014-06-13 14:43:56
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abstract = {{The aim of this study was to understand how elderly immigrants are being categorized in the discussion about ethnical elderly homes and which descriptions of problems are used to argue for the existence of the ethnical homes, from a social constructionist point of view. Furthermore, we investigate who the claims-makers are and how concepts such as ethnicity and culture are portrayed in this discussion. The data consist of articles from newspapers and magazines, as well as websites of the ethnical elderly homes. We also included nationalist internet-based newspapers which use a similar way of making distinctions between Swedes and elderly immigrants. The purpose of this was to understand how the different data related to each other. In the discussion about elderly immigrants and public care distinctions are commonly made between this category and Swedish elders. Firstly, we found that ethnical elderly homes are often described as a solution to issues of communication and isolation in public elderly care which occur due to language differences between the caregiver and the caretaker, but also as a solution for the cultural dilemmas which elderly immigrants face when in contact with the public care. Secondly, we discovered, from our qualitative data analysis, that it is common for distinctions to be made between elderly immigrants and elderly Swedes in all of the data, but that the nationalist authors use normative and moral values to highlight issues connected to immigration and society. Lastly, we found that elderly immigrants are usually described as a homogeneous group who are different in relation to Swedish elders, both in terms of cultural background and needs when getting older, and that they are seldom the claims-makers in the discussion.}},
author = {{Posada, Rebecca and Hansson, Therese}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{"En trygghet att få åldras bland de sina"- En analys av diskussionen om etniska äldreboenden}},
year = {{2014}},
}