Migrants and Non-citizens

This project aims to understand how the financial wellbeing of older people without citizenship can be best secured. In doing so, it will deliver new insights concerning the impact of noncitizenship on financial wellbeing.

The findings of the project will contribute directly to the work of the Birmingham Financial Inclusion Partnership (BFIP), a group of over 50 public and third sector organisations across Birmingham supported and directed by Birmingham City Council and through which the City’s poverty alleviation strategy is largely delivered. It will also act as a pilot study to underpin an application to the ESRC Research Grants scheme for funding to examine the impact of noncitizenship on older people across a range of policy areas.

The project is qualitative in nature, involving interviews with older people with diverse noncitizen statuses living in the Greater Birmingham area. Data will be transcribed and analysed thematically. Using these findings we will produce a report to be presented at a meeting of the BFIP concerning older migrants’ financial wellbeing.

Outputs: CPFW report on Financial Wellbeing of Older Noncitizens in the West Midlands 

Aston press release November 2023

Team: Katie Tonkiss, Hayley James, Kris Fuzi and Andy Lymer