Ageing in the Margins: Understanding Intersectional Inequalities shaping the Ageing and Well-being of Non-European Migrant Women in Finland

The empirical findings shed light, first, on the invisibility of ageing non-European migrants in scholarly discussions. Second, the inequalities experienced at the intersection of age, race and gender at the structural, societal and personal levels are brought to the fore to shed light on how accounts of their everyday lives are connected to structures of power. Third, the findings also reveal the untold agentic pathways of their resilience, reworking and resistance that contest the problematic and deficient construction of ageing non-European migrant women based on their vulnerability. The research illustrates both the constraints and possibilities generated from a gendered and racialised ageing position and their implications for social work. As a discipline committed to social justice, it is key for social work to be able to grasp how intertwined identities affect the lived experiences of ageing and well-being beyond the personal level. The thesis draws attention to the need to acknowledge structural inequalities, multiple forms of marginalisation and to reimagine ways of narrating the multifaceted stories of women ageing in the margins.