TY - JOUR
T1 - The network shifts of elderly immigrants
T2 - The case of Soviet Jews in Israel
AU - Litwin, Howard
PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - This article analyzes the network dynamics of 259 Soviet immigrants, aged 62-92, who arrived in Israel during the recent wave of mass immigration. The study uses a Quick Cluster procedure with structural network characteristics as criterion variables to identify four primary network types among the study population: (1) kin network, (2) family-intensive network, (3) friend-focused network, and (4) diffuse-tie network. The pattern of shifts from pre-immigration network type to post-immigration network type reveals that the primary shifts were from the non-familial based network types to the familial-based types, and within the familial types from a wider kin network to a more restricted family-intensive network. These shifts reflect a move from networks of choice to networks of necessity on the part of many older immigrants.
AB - This article analyzes the network dynamics of 259 Soviet immigrants, aged 62-92, who arrived in Israel during the recent wave of mass immigration. The study uses a Quick Cluster procedure with structural network characteristics as criterion variables to identify four primary network types among the study population: (1) kin network, (2) family-intensive network, (3) friend-focused network, and (4) diffuse-tie network. The pattern of shifts from pre-immigration network type to post-immigration network type reveals that the primary shifts were from the non-familial based network types to the familial-based types, and within the familial types from a wider kin network to a more restricted family-intensive network. These shifts reflect a move from networks of choice to networks of necessity on the part of many older immigrants.
KW - Elderly immigrants
KW - Network shifts
KW - Social network
KW - Social support
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U2 - 10.1023/A:1006593025061
DO - 10.1023/A:1006593025061
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AN - SCOPUS:0010045033
SN - 0169-3816
VL - 12
SP - 45
EP - 60
JO - Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology
JF - Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology
IS - 1
ER -