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- Title
"There's Hardly Anything Left": Poverty and the Economic Insecurity of Elderly Filipinos in Toronto.
- Authors
SINTOS COLOMA, ROLAND; LUTHER PINO, FRITZ
- Abstract
As the Canadian population becomes more racially diverse, so does its elderly population. This article focuses on elderly Filipinos, whose country of origin has become the largest source of immigrants to Canada since 2006. It draws from a university-community partnership and a mixed method research of surveying 250 and interviewing 20 elderly Filipinos in Toronto to document their economic condition. With seven out of ten living in poverty, our research reveals that economic insecurity is a fact of life for most elderly Filipinos in Canada. We elaborate on their impoverished living situation by delineating three major themes from our literature review (understanding poverty, factors contributing to poverty, and outcomes of poverty) and by foregrounding particular experiences of elderly Filipinos that illustrate and extend these themes. Taking intersectionality as our analytical paradigm, we consider the poverty of elderly Filipinos as shedding light on the interlocking ways in which later life circumstances are intricately shaped and impacted by class, race, gender, and immigration. Their economic insecurity is also intimately connected to the deskilling and deprofessionalization of Filipinos in Canada, a major structural condition that has produced and reinforced the ongoing marginalization of this racialized minority community.
- Subjects
TORONTO (Ont.); CANADA; OLDER people; FILIPINOS; POVERTY; RACIALIZATION; IMMIGRANT families; INCOME; MINORITIES; TWENTY-first century; 21ST century economics; CANADIAN economy
- Publication
Canadian Ethnic Studies, 2016, Vol 48, Issue 2, p71
- ISSN
0008-3496
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/ces.2016.0014