Family conflict and future concerns: Opportunities for social workers to better support Chinese immigrant caregiver employees

ABSTRACT

This paper explores the experiences of Chinese immigrant caregiver employees (CEs) residing in Southern Ontario, Canada. Qualitative analysis of participant interviews with thirteen Mandarin Chinese immigrant CEs revealed family conflicts due to cultural differences and an intergenerational gap between CEs and their care recipients. CEs also had future concerns in regards to their own health and the lack of long-term care facilities that offer cultural services for immigrant seniors. These findings provide an opportunity for social workers to collaborate with other service providers to provide ethno-specific and culturally sensitive health, community. and employment services to immigrant ethnic minority CEs.

KEYWORDS:

• Caregiver-employee
• Immigrant
• Health
• Family conflict
• Future concerns

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Funding

This research was funded by a Canadian Institutes of Health Research-Institute for Gender and Health, Research Chair in Gender, Work & Health, addressing Caregiver-Friendly Workplace Policies [CG1-126585].