This study explores how Latin American refugees and immigrants perceive their quality of life in New Zealand, highlighting key challenges like discrimination, language barriers, mental health, and isolation. Despite these, many report satisfaction. It also examines New Zealanders’ perceptions and offers recommendations for future research on migrant well-being.
Tag: Immigrants
Chinese late-life immigrants’ loneliness and social isolation in host countries: An integrative review
Abstract
Aims and objective:
To synthesise current international empirical evidence on loneliness and social isolation in Chinese late-life immigrants.
Background:
Loneliness causes adverse health consequences in Chinese late-life immigrants leading to increased utilisation of often increasingly limited healthcare resources. However, little is known about how Chinese late-life immigrants perceive and experience loneliness and social isolation in their host countries.
Challenges and adjustments in maintaining health and well-being of older Asian immigrants in New Zealand-An integrative review – PubMed
Abstract
Objective
There is a paucity of health-related research on older Asian immigrants in New Zealand.The aim of this review was to critically examine literature on the health and well-being of this population group.
Methods:
An integrative literature review was conducted from December 2017 to February 2018.Online databases searched were Scopus, MEDLINE, CINAHL and the Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre.
Results:
Two themes were identified: Firstly, the “challenges stemming from an unfamiliar environment” faced by older Asian immigrants, and secondly, their “strategies for adjusting to a new home.” These themes suggested how participation in community and leisure activities, as well as adapting their outlook on life, contributed to these older migrants’ health and well-being within a New Zealand context.
Conclusion:
A multitude of challenges in maintaining health and well-being confronted these older Asian immigrants; nevertheless, they created strategies to respond and positively influence their health following later-life migration.