Cati Coe has been awarded a Carleton University 2024-25 Research Development Grant for her research project “Transnational Social Protection and the Care of Aging Migrants”. Cati Coe is the Canada Research Chair in Migration and Care and Professor of Political Science at Carleton University.
About the project:
Despite the general success of the Canadian social welfare system in reducing poverty among seniors, since 2000, scholars have sounded the alarm about how new Canadians are disadvantaged when it comes to retirement. The causes of poverty among aging immigrants are clear; this study examines the impacts of current pension policy, with a focus on Ghanaian-Canadians. Impoverishment may lead immigrant seniors to diversify their social protection resources, relying on family, continued work, and transnational residence and connections to supplement inadequate state resources. How do aging seniors negotiate dilemmas in social protection and how do their solutions to these dilemmas affect their sense of political belonging?