![]() ![]() All themes fell into four categories: social discrimination, institutional discrimination, anticipatory stigma, and other. Nine themes emerged from the interviews, including rejection, stereotyping, fear of contagion, violations of confidentiality, and internalized ageism. The experiences were often separate, although some interrelated stigma did occur. The majority (68%) of the respondents experienced both ageism and HIV-associated stigma. Open coding and axial coding of interview transcripts were completed on all interviews, resulting in the development of a framework of these experiences. Purposive sampling was used to recruit these individuals who shared their experiences. This was a qualitative study in which 25 in-depth interviews were completed with adults aged 50 years and older who were living with HIV or AIDS. Through semistructured interviews, this study sought to examine whether older adults with HIV/AIDS experience both ageism and HIV stigma and how those experiences manifest in their lives. Older adults living with HIV infection may be doubly stigmatized, as they are branded by both age as well as HIV status. This paper examines the causal attributes to depression among Irish migrants in the UK in the context of pre- and post-migration experiences with particular focus on gender and age. For many participants, the origins of distress are located in Ireland or in difficult life events and circumstances without a direct relationship to migration. We found that previous theories on Irish migrant psychiatric disorder such as racial discrimination were not supported by the narratives of Irish migrant experience. The interviews were completed with men and women who experienced depression and others who had not. These perspectives were obtained through in-depth interviews with Irish-born migrants aged 18 and over living in London in order to explore psychological distress through a contextualised 'insiders' account. We report on a qualitative study in order to clarify how, from the migrant's perspective, migration might be related to depression. Taking a previous epidemiological study on depression and Irish migrants as a point of departure, we explored the reasons for this morbidity-we hypothesised that depression may be related to unprepared or spontaneous migration. Only recently have researchers begun to explore the reasons for this morbidity. However, research over 40 years shows Irish migrants to have consistent high vulnerability to mental disorders. Irish geographical and cultural propinquity to the UK might be considered as an advantage to migrants. ![]()
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