2. The New Aging Trajectories of Chinese Grandparents in Canada

2019 ◽  
pp. 43-60
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Grandparents

Can Chinese grandparents say no?

2018 ◽  
pp. 233-252
Author(s):  
Esther C. L. Goh ◽  
Sheng-li Wang
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Grandparents

scholarly journals Living Arrangements and Gendered Work Prospects Among Chinese Grandparents

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 495-495
Author(s):  
Jing Ye ◽  
Feinian Chen
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Double Burden ◽  
Multigenerational Households ◽  
Using Data ◽  
High Level ◽  
Chinese Grandparents ◽  
Positive Effect

Abstract Recent literature on grandparenthood in China overwhelmingly focuses on the role of grandparents as caregivers for grandchildren. However, many become grandparents at an age when they are still active in the labor force. Using data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (2011-2015), this study examines the extent to which coresidence with grandchildren affects grandparents’ labor force participation and work hours. Results from our fixed-effect models show that, living with grandchildren has a positive effect on men’s work participation and hours worked, especially for those with flexible jobs. For women with inflexible jobs, coresidence with grandchildren has a negative impact on their work prospect. Furthermore, grandparents in skipped generational households are less likely to scale back in work than those in multigenerational households, indicating a high level of double burden from both work and caregiving responsibilities. Our study extends prior work by emphasizing grandparents’ role as active workers and highlights the importance to understand work and caregiving demands in a gendered and dynamic household context.

Can Chinese grandparents say no? A comparison of grandmothers in two Asian cities

2018 ◽  
pp. 233-252
Author(s):  
Esther C.L. Goh ◽  
Sheng-li Wang
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Adult Children ◽  
Relational Theory ◽  
Sense Of Agency ◽  
Cultural Discourses ◽  
Asian Cities ◽  
Chinese Societies ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Relational Contexts ◽  
Chinese Grandparents

This chapter examines two dominant research constructs namely, ‘cultural obligation’ and ‘intergenerational reciprocity’ in caring for grandchildren in Chinese societies – Fuzhou and Singapore. Drawing on Social Relational Theory (SRT), it examines the agency of grandmothers through unpacking the rationales for their involvement or non-involvement in childcare, and the goals and meanings they ascribe to their decisions. Grandparents are viewed as agents: capable of setting goals, devising plans, strategies and taking actions to achieve their goals in the relational contexts with their adult children and grandchildren. The key research questions addressed in this chapter are : (1) to what extent do grandmothers in Fuzhou and Singapore are influenced in their decisions to provide childcare by similar yet diverse Confucian roots; (2) understanding the socio-cultural discourses of grandparenthood in Fuzhou and Singapore; and (3) whether such discourses will constrain or facilitate their sense of agency in decision making.

Depressive symptoms in the context of Chinese grandparents caring for grandchildren

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Fengyan Tang ◽  
Ke Li ◽  
Heejung Jang ◽  
Mary Beth Rauktis
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Chinese Grandparents

Sandwiched Grandparents and Biological Health Risks in China

2022 ◽  
pp. 002214652110698
Author(s):  
Hongwei Xu ◽  
Jinyu Liu ◽  
Zhenmei Zhang ◽  
Lydia Li
Keyword(s):  
Health Risks ◽  
Allostatic Load ◽  
Filial Piety ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Intergenerational Caregiving ◽  
Biological Health ◽  
Unexpected Findings ◽  
Chinese Grandparents

This study examined the cross-sectional associations between intergenerational caregiving and health risks among sandwiched Chinese grandparents who provide care to grandchildren, great-grandparents, or both. Drawing on biomarker data from the 2011 wave of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (N range = 2,189–3,035), we measured age-related biological health risks of hypertension, diabetes, inflammation, and allostatic load. We found that health risks did not necessarily increase with the intensity of intergenerational caregiving. Providing care to grandchildren and great-grandparents simultaneously was not as detrimental to health as reported in earlier studies from the United States. Sandwiched grandparents could benefit from providing care to grandchildren or great-grandparents only. These unexpected findings might be related to the cultural mandates of filial piety and family solidarity in China. Grandfathers and grandmothers experienced different associations between varying types of intergenerational caregiving and health risks.

Transnational grandparenting: the intersection of transnationalism and translocality

2018 ◽  
pp. 113-130
Author(s):  
Yanqiu Rachel Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Border Control ◽  
Chinese Grandparents ◽  
Intergenerational Families

Using the case of transnational childcare by Chinese grandparents in Canada, this chapter presents a perspective on transnational grandparenting beyond a narrow cultural lens. Drawing on theories of transnationalism and translocality, it analyses three interconnected aspects of transnational grandparenting: (1) intergenerational love in the context of neoliberal care restructuring; (2) intergenerational families in the context of border control; and (3) generational reciprocity in the context of cultural rupture. It is concluded that an exploration of the intersection of transnationalism and translocality can contribute to a broader, contextualised perspective from which to understand the dynamics, dissonance, and effects of transnational grandparenting. This approach shows promise for revealing the complex intersections, including tensions, between mobility and locality, and thus allows a less linear and more open and inclusive conceptualisation of the manifold ways in which transnational grandparenting is constituted.

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