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25 Int'l Migration Rev. 4 (1991)

handle is hein.journals/imgratv25 and id is 1 raw text is: Immigration and Living Arrangements: Elderly Women in Canadal Monica Boyd Carleton University The foreign-born elderly in Canada include persons who immigrated as young adults but have now grown old, as well as persons who have immigrated late in life, usually under the auspices of family reunifica- tion. Considerable diversity exists among the elderly as a result of these echoes of past and current migration flows. Yet, the implication of such diversity has not been extensively researched. This article examines variation in living with family among the elderly by age-at- immigration groups. Previously married elderly women who arrived as children or as young adults are less likely than other groups, including the native born, to live with family. The percentage living with family instead of living alone or with a nonrelative is highest for women immigrating at age 65 or later. Socioeconomic correlates of these patterns are examined. In industrial nations, social scientists, politicians and the general public increasingly are aware of the aging of the population. This phrase refers to the expectation that a sizeable portion of national populations will be elderly within several decades. In anticipation of population aging, consid- erable research already exists on the pensions of the elderly, their living arrangements, their contacts with other family members and their emo- tional and physical well-being. Generally, international migration flows are not incorporated in such studies. Yet, immigration has both direct and indirect implications for many investigations of aging and the elderly. The direct implication is that immi- This article is a revision of a paper Family Migration and Living Arrangements: The Case of Elderly Immigrants in Cananda, presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association ofnAmerica, New Orleans, April 1988. The author thanks Chris Taylor, Employment and Immigration Canada, for helpful comments on the earlier draft and for facilitating the procurement of unpublished tabulations on immigration flows. Analysis of the 1981 PUST data was conducted at Carleton University and was financed through a faculty computer account. Earlier drafts of the paper were written while the author was a Visiting Scholar (1987-1988) in the Social and Analytical Studies Division, Statistics Canada. 4 IMR Volume xxv, No. 1

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