Invisible Immigrants, Old and Left With ‘Nobody to Talk To’

Older immigrants, cut off from society by language and culture differences, now make up America’s fastest-growing immigrant group. Full Story »

Posted by Subramanya Sastry - via New York Times (Most Emailed)
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Subjects: World, U.S.
Member Tags: immigration and emigration, social conditions and trends, medicine and health, mental health and disorders, fremont (calif), elderly
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Posted by: Posted by Subramanya Sastry - Aug 31, 2009 - 4:11 AM PDT
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Edited by: Subramanya Sastry - Aug 31, 2009 - 7:12 AM PDT

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Kaizar Campwala
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by Kaizar Campwala - Aug. 31, 2009

Reliant on their children, late-life immigrants are a vulnerable population. “They come anticipating a great deal of family togetherness,” Professor Treas said. “But ... More »

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Subramanya Sastry
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by Subramanya Sastry - Aug. 31, 2009
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Lynn Caporale
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by Lynn Caporale - Aug. 31, 2009

“In India there is a favorable bias toward the elders,” Mr. Singh said, sitting amid Hindu religious posters and a photograph of his late wife Mr. Singh… grew ... More »

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Leon
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by Leon - Aug. 31, 2009

Sad commentary. However, before technology, internet, newsgroups, and forums, this was all of us, wasn't it? This is what we all faced as we got older?

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