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Family Life Courses of Older Caribbean Migrants Living in Canada
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- Author / Creator
- Donalds, Shanika
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The multidimensional nature of family life can make navigating relationships across distance and time complex. As families become more mobile there is acknowledgment of a knowledge gap in understanding how family dynamics and bonds extend across borders. Issues of continuity and change within families become more salient to understanding how family members near and far navigate relationships and obligations across time. The focus of this study was to explore migrants’ perspectives of their family life courses.
This qualitative descriptive study sought to ascertain older migrant perspectives on their family relationships across the life course. The study was guided by human ecology theory, social convoy model and concepts from life course perspective to facilitate understanding of the experiences of the older adults. The thematic findings from this study affirm the significance of family bonds, illustrating that: family relationships are negotiated across time; family relationships are enacted via various mechanisms; and ideas about families are redefined across time. The study results suggest that, in the face of a life event such as migration participants actively engaged in decision making about the family relationships that they nurture, new relationships that they create and those they would leave behind. -
- Graduation date
- Fall 2023
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- Type of Item
- Thesis
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- Degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
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- License
- This thesis is made available by the University of Alberta Libraries with permission of the copyright owner solely for non-commercial purposes. This thesis, or any portion thereof, may not otherwise be copied or reproduced without the written consent of the copyright owner, except to the extent permitted by Canadian copyright law.