Guest Editorial: “Examining Aging and Care Through an Intersectional-Sensitive Lens”
by Stefan Schweigler, Anna-Christina Kainradl, Helen Kohlen, Ulla Kriebernegg, Eva-Maria Trinkaus
Aging in a Caring Society: How Power Dynamics Intersect
This special issue emerges from the work of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Aging and Care (CIRAC), founded in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic at the University of Graz in Austria. Its opening conference, which took place in 2023, led to this publication, which is also inspired by one of the Center’s first projects, “Gender Matters: Aging, Care, and Migration,” in the framework of the Elisabeth-List Fellowship Program for Gender Studies. Elisabeth List’s feminist philosophical leg acy including her emphasis on embodied thinking and the entanglement of knowledge, power, and lived experience, shapes the foundation for the critical perspectives gathered in this special issue. CIRAC builds on this tradition by addressing socially relevant questions regarding aging, old age and cultures of care through critically informed research, education, and community engagement.
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“Researching the Agency of Older Migrant Women: The Potential of Intersectional Approaches”
by Anna-Christina Kainradl, Brigitte Kukovetz, Annette Sprung
The paper explores the agency of older migrant women using intersectional approaches. It provides an overview of existing research on the migration-ageing nexus in the social sciences. Based on this, it highlights the need to focus on the multifaceted challenges and potentials of older migrant women, considering the intersectional dynamics of gender, migration and age. The concept of intersectionality is discussed in relation to how it illuminates the discriminatory experiences and agency of older migrant women. Putting the concept of agency at the centre, the article highlights the importance of understanding agency from a gender, migrant, and ageing perspective. Finally, it argues for an expanded understanding of agency that takes into account the intersecting categories and diverse forms of expression.