Migr-Age

Migr-Age is a 3-year research project funded by the European Commission. It studies how migrants, especially Colombians, care for and receive care from their ageing parents. 

Migr-Age aims at understanding how the intersection of care, border and labour regimes shapes the strategies of adult migrants to care for and receive care from their ageing parents.  The project focuses on the experience of Colombian families in Italy and Canada, in which elderly parents are (or were until recently) living in Colombia. 

The project aims to: 

• Compare care policies and programmes, including access to health care, that are implemented in Italy, Canada, and Colombia, and analyse the extent to which they are accessible for Colombian migrants’ elderly parents
• Identify the public, private, and third-sector actors that provide or facilitate access to care services, paying specific attention to the conditions set to access such services
• Identify the specific strategies that migrant families enact to care for and receive care from elderly parents, paying specific attention to the way strategies are shaped by care, border and labour regimes