Social isolation and volunteering of older Chinese immigrants in Australia

这项共同设计和合作的研究解决了新冠肺炎以来的一个严峻挑战：如何让遭受严重社会孤立的CALD移民更容易开展志愿活动。研究人员将与5个合作组织(POS)合作，以新南威尔士州的中国移民(60+)为例进行研究。它将分析人口普查和GSS数据集，在养老、服务导航和老年人学习的背景下进行深入访谈和重点小组。这项研究将提供新的证据，并检验同伴教育的效果，并支持POS的服务和政策倡导。这项研究将使CALD老年移民受益，提高服务能力，并为澳大利亚更大的社会凝聚力做出贡献。

This co-designed and collaborative research addresses an acute challenge since COVID-19: how to make volunteering activities more accessible to CALD immigrants who suffer from serious social isolation. The researchers will work with 5 partner organisations (POs) to study Chinese immigrants (60+) in NSW as an example. It will analyse census and GSS datasets, conduct in-depth interviews and focus groups in the settings of old-age care, service navigation and elderly learning. This research will produce new evidence and test the effect of peer education, and support services and policy advocacy of the POs. This research will benefit CALD older immigrants, enhance service capacity and contribute to greater social cohesion in Australia.