Description
Civic engagement is one of the cornerstones of participatory democracy and fundamental to preventing old-age social exclusion. Even though civic participation late-in-life has received considerable attention, there is a lacuna of research on older migrants’ civic engagement. This study aims therefore to examine factors associated with civic engagement in terms of formal volunteering and participation in political organizations among foreign-born and native-born older adults in Europe. Attention is hereby given to how socio-structural resources and social capital are associated with civic engagement, and whether these associations differ between foreign-born and native-born. Data from wave 7 of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) [n= 74,292; 5752 of them are foreign-born] were used in multivariable logistic regression analyses. The results show that having a foreign-born background was significantly associated with lower participation in both volunteering and political participation, even when socio-structural and social capital variables were considered simultaneously in these analyses. Further, the associations between the included variables and civic engagement did not differ significantly between native-born and foreign-born, except for social participation and work status in the case of political participation. These results bring therefore attention to inequalities in civic engagement between native-born and foreign-born older people in Europe and call for interventions to increase migrants’ civic inclusion.| Period | 1 Jul 2022 |
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| Event title | 19th IMISCOE Conference: Migration and Time: Temporalities of Mobility, Governance, and Resistance |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | oslo, NorwayShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |