What is daily life like for an elderly person whose income barely covers basicneeds? How is life constrained if that person is living within the samemarginal en... » 

What is daily life like for an elderly person whose income barely covers basicneeds? How is life constrained if that person is living within the samemarginal enclave to which she first migrated decades ago? How does theimplementation of national policies and programs affect the daily life of thosegrowing old in Spanish Harlem?In Growing Old in El Barrio Judith Freidenberg addresses these questions byexamining the lifecourse and daily experiences of the elderly residents of ElBarrio. She interweaves the economy of immigrant neighborhoods with thepersonal experiences of Latinos aging in Harlem such as Dona Emiliana wholived in Spanish Harlem from her migration in 1948 to her death in 1995.Freidenberg further links policy issues to social issues critical to the dailylives of this population.Combining extensive fieldwork interviews with historical and demographicpopulation data Growing Old in El Barrio paints an ethnographic picture ofaging in Spanish Harlem and illustrates the emergence of New York as a citydivided by ethnicity and class. «