It is part of your life until you die: older refugees in Australia

  1. Richard Hugman*,
  2. Linda Bartolomei,
  3. Eileen Pittaway

Article first published online: 30 SEP 2004

DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-6612.2004.00037.x

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Australasian Journal on Ageing

Australasian Journal on Ageing

Volume 23, Issue 3, pages 147–149, September 2004

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Hugman, R., Bartolomei, L. and Pittaway, E. (2004), It is part of your life until you die: older refugees in Australia. Australasian Journal on Ageing, 23: 147–149. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-6612.2004.00037.x

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  1. School of Social Work and Centre for Refugee Research, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

*Correspondence to: Professor Richard Hugman, School of Social Work, University of New South Wales. Email: r.hugman@unsw.edu.au

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  1. Issue published online: 30 SEP 2004
  2. Article first published online: 30 SEP 2004

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Keywords:

  • families;
  • older refugees;
  • place;
  • trauma

Objective: To explore perceptions of the issues facing older refugees, from the perspective of older refugees themselves and from workers in their communities who assist them.

Method: A qualitative approach, consisting of five focus groups with older refugees, and 10 interviews and one focus group with community workers.

Results: The impact of being a refugee can be seen in the effects of trauma and of forced migration on the experience of growing old.

Conclusion: Older refugees have a sense of ‘ageing in the wrong place’, to which policy and practice need to respond.

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