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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Sun, Ken Chih-Yan,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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