Praying for More Time: Mexican Immigrants’ Pandemic Eldercare Dilemmas
Praying for More Time: Mexican Immigrants’ Pandemic Eldercare Dilemmas
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祈祷更多时间：墨西哥移民大流行的老年护理困境
DOI：
10.1111/maq.12731
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发表时间：
2022
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Horton, Sarah B.
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作者：
Horton, Sarah B.
本文基于2018年至2021年对21名墨西哥移民进行的纵向研究，探讨了COVID-19大流行对美国无证移民试图为墨西哥年迈的父母提供护理所带来的挑战。由于美国将无证移民排除在大流行病支持之外，即使墨西哥公共卫生保健系统崩溃，大流行病也削弱了他们为父母提供医疗保健的能力。与此同时，由于疫情加速了他们父母的死亡，它阻碍了移民在父母去世前及时回国看望父母的能力。虽然学者们充分记录了空间差异如何加剧了这一流行病对边缘化群体的影响，但很少有人研究这一流行病造成的时间破坏。这篇文章表明，这一流行病使跨境家庭生活的暂时性失去同步，并阻碍了移民及时协调照顾父母的能力，从而引发了特别的痛苦。[COVID-19，跨国家庭，老年人护理，死亡，时间]
Based on longitudinal research conducted with 21 Mexican immigrants between 2018 and 2021, this article examines the challenges the COVID‐19 pandemic posed to undocumented immigrants in the United States attempting to provide care for aging parents in Mexico. As the United States excluded undocumented immigrants from pandemic support, the pandemic undermined their ability to provide health care for their parents even as the Mexican public health care system crumbled. Meanwhile, as the pandemic hastened their parents’ demise, it thwarted immigrants’ ability to time returns to see their parents before they died. While scholars have amply documented how spatial disparities exacerbated the impact of the pandemic among marginalized groups, few have examined the temporal disruptions caused by the pandemic. This article suggests that the pandemic provoked particular distress by desynchronizing the temporalities of family life across borders and preventing immigrants’ abilities to coordinate care for their parents in time. [COVID‐19, transnational families, eldercare, death, time]