Storying Life Courses for Intersectional Inclusion: Ethnicity and Wellbeing Across Time and Place

Il 26/01/2023 ore 11.30 - 13.00

Via Palestro 32, 00185 Roma

Majella Kilkey, Director of Research at University of Sheffield, will present the project Storying Life Courses for Intersectional Inclusion: Ethnicity and Wellbeing Across Time and Place (2022-2025), funded under the ESRC’s Inclusive Ageing programme.

The current prominence of the Black Lives Matter Movement, along with evidence of the unequal morbidity, mortality and socio-economic impacts of Covid-19, have highlighted the entrenched and systemic ethnic and racialised inequalities in UK society. These have a detrimental impact on older members of the Black, Asian and Minoritised Ethnic and Refugee (BAMER) population, as well as on its younger members. Indeed, the two are inseparable, as racialised experiences of inequality and exclusion encountered in earlier years, accumulate over the life course, resulting in significant ethnic inequalities in later life across a range of social outcomes. Research and policy agendas designed to foster more inclusive ageing scenarios for the population at large have gained traction in recent years, albeit against a backdrop of prevailing societal ageism as a system of inequality and a major form of exclusion. Such agendas have increasingly acknowledged the importance of a life course perspective for inclusive ageing, understanding later-life positionings as cumulative of advantage and disadvantage over time. Older people's life courses, however, have been treated in quite homogenised ways. This means that in prevailing conceptualisations of inclusive ageing, vital intersections between ageing and ethnicity, and between ageism and racism, have been missed. The focus should also be placed on the important role that place plays in shaping intersectional life course experiences. This includes the material resources available in local places, such as housing and social care, as well as the sense of attachment, belonging and identity places engender or not. For those with a migration background, place is likely to be multi-sited, with experiences in the place of residence produced and re-produced in relation to places elsewhere.

Organizzato da:
Istituto di ricerche sulla popolazione e le politiche sociali - CNR

Referente organizzativo:
Lucio Pisacane
CNR - Istituto di ricerche sulla popolazione e le politiche sociali
Via Palestro 32, 00185 Roma
comunicazione@irpps.cnr.it

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