05/29/2017
Anoshua Chaudhuri, Professor of Economics, along with faculty colleagues, Grace Yoo in Asian American Studies and Yeon-shim Lee from Social Work are collecting nationally representative data on H1B Visa holders. Their project aims at examining H1B visa families in Filipino, Korean, Chinese, and Indian immigrant populations and how these families maintain family relations and ties (e.g., motivation of migration, migration/assimilation process, socio-economic demographic conditions) with their home country. This study explores how cultural, social, workplace, and economic contexts influence: a) responsibilities and practices of elder care in local and transnational contexts for H1B visa families, b) negotiations with their networks of care (e.g., kin-networks), and c) decisions on care arrangements and care provision (e.g., cultural beliefs about caregiving arrangements and strategies, utilization of a nursing home)
In addition, the investigators will examine the impact of transnational caregiving on H1B visa families, with a focus on economic, social, and psychological costs and benefits (e.g., financial remittance, health care costs for their older parents both living overseas as well as new immigrants, such as green card holders who do not qualify for Medicare); and implications for their workplaces in the U.S.
They hope to make recommendations that are innovative, culturally sensitive, and useful for public policy and programmatic interventions that impact H1B workers in the United States.
