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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
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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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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