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 Special Issue: S Irudaya Rajan a& AKM Ahsan Ullah (2023) From knowledge to action: South Asian diaspora engagement in times of crisis, South Asian Diaspora, 15:2, 123-136, DOI: 10.1080/19438192.2023.2240611

 

 

IIMAD is pleased to announce the launch of the website for Migration and Development Journal(MAD) “Migration and Development” is available at https://journals.sagepub.com/home/mad At launch, the journal begins a free access period which ends on (06-12-2023).

Kerala Migration Survey 2023 takes place through Gulati Institute of Finance and Taxation under the direction of Dr. S. Irudaya Rajan, Visiting Fellow, GIFT and Chair, IIMAD which is funded by the Government of Kerala.

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Financial Abuse in Domestic Settings in Later life: A study based on COVID hit Kerala

Published on April 22, 2022

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The abuse of senior citizens in their family is a major social issue that usually goes unnoticed. One of the most prominent form of abuse that the elderly population is forced to endure is financial abuse at the hands of close relatives like children and partners. This chapter attempts to throw some light on various forms of financial abuses that senior citizens face in domestic settings, especially in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Kerala, with its significant population of the elderly was chosen for the study. It is based on a case study among 40 senior citizens, who narrated various types of financial and psychological abuses they were subjected to at the hands of their own kith and kin. The study reveals that most of the financial abuses occur in the form of usurping property through fraudulent means, denying pensions and other monetary benefits. In the absence of a national database recording the abuses on the elderly population, this chapter calls for a nationwide database recording the instances of financial as well as other forms of abuse that the senior citizens are subjected to. The authors also call for a concerted action to ensure that the senior citizens are taken care of in their family settings.