Time and Migration : : How Long-Term Taiwanese Migrants Negotiate Later Life / / Ken Chih-Yan Sun.

Based on longitudinal ethnographic work on migration between the US and Taiwan, Time and Migration interrogates how long-term immigrants negotiate their needs as they grow older and how transnational migration shapes later-life transitions. Ken Chih-Yan Sun develops the concept of a "temporalit...

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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Preface --
Acknowledgments --
Note on Transliteration and Naming --
Introduction: How Time Complicates Migratory Experiences --
1. Emigrating, Staying, and Returning --
2. Reconfiguring Intergenerational Reciprocity --
3. Remaking Conjugality --
4. Doing Grandparenthood --
5. Navigating Networks of Support --
6. Articulating Logics of Social Rights --
Conclusion: Rethinking Time, Migration, and Aging --
Appendix A: Reflections on Methodology and Research Design --
Appendix B: Backgrounds of Respondents --
Notes --
Bibliography --
Index
Summary:Based on longitudinal ethnographic work on migration between the US and Taiwan, Time and Migration interrogates how long-term immigrants negotiate their needs as they grow older and how transnational migration shapes later-life transitions. Ken Chih-Yan Sun develops the concept of a "temporalities of migration" to examine the interaction between space, place, and time. He demonstrates how long-term settlement in the United States, coupled with changing homeland contexts, has inspired aging immigrants and returnees to rethink their sense of social belonging, remake intimate relations, and negotiate opportunities and constraints across borders. The interplay between migration and time shapes the ways aging migrant populations reassess and reconstruct relationships with their children, spouses, grandchildren, community members, and home, as well as host societies. Aging, Sun argues, is a global issue, and must be reconsidered in a cross-border environment.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781501754883
9783110739084
9783110754001
9783110753776
9783110754186
9783110753967
DOI:10.1515/9781501754883?locatt=mode:legacy
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Ken Chih-Yan Sun.