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Aspiring in Later Life

Movements across Time, Space, and Generations
Buch | Hardcover
204 Seiten
2023
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-3041-7 (ISBN)
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Brings together rich ethnographic cases from different regions of the world, offering original insights into how aspirations shift over the course of life and how they are pursued in contexts of translocal mobility.
In our highly interconnected and globalized world, people often pursue their aspirations in multiple places. Yet in public and scholarly debates, aspirations are often seen as the realm of younger, mobile generations, since they are assumed to hold the greatest potential for shaping the future. This volume flips this perspective on its head by exploring how aspirations are constructed from the vantage point of later life, and shows how they are pursued across time, space, and generations. The aspirations of older people are diverse, and relate not only to aging itself but also to planning the next generation’s future, preparing an "ideal" retirement, searching for intimacy and self-realization, and confronting death and afterlives. Aspiring in Later Life brings together rich ethnographic cases from different regions of the world, offering original insights into how aspirations shift over the course of life and how they are pursued in contexts of translocal mobility.

This book is also freely available online as an open-access digital edition.

Download the open access book here.

MEGHA AMRITH leads the "Ageing in a Time of Mobility" research group at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany. She is the author of Caring for Strangers: Filipino Medical Workers in Asia and co-editor of the volume Gender, Work, and Migration. VICTORIA KUMALA SAKTI is a postdoctoral researcher in the "Ageing in a Time of Mobility" research group at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany. This is her first book. DORA SAMPAIO is an assistant professor in the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. She is the author of Migration, Diversity and Inequality in Later Life: Ageing at a Crossroads.  

Introduction 1

Megha Amrith, Victoria K. Sakti, and Dora Sampaio


PA R T  I

Desire and Self-Realization


1 Growing Old Hand in Hand: Aspirations of

Romantic Love in Later Life among Romanian 

Transmigrants in Rome

Dumitrița Luncă


2 Letting Go and Looking Ahead: The Aspirations of

Middle-Aged Migrant Domestic Workers in Singapore

and Hong Kong

Megha Amrith


3 Aspirational Movements: Later-Life Mobility as a

Female Resource to Age Well

Lisa Johnson


PA R T I I

Intergenerational Negotiations


4 Aspiring to Retire: Intergenerational Care in a

Ghanaian Transnational Family

Cati Coe


5 Between Aging Parents There and Young 

Children Here: The Aspirations of Late-Middle-Aged

Peruvian Migrants in Santiago as a Transnational

Sandwich Generation

Alfonso Otaegui


6 Whose Aspirations? Intergenerational Expectations

and Hopes in Eastern Uganda

Susan Reynolds Whyte


PA RT I I I

Living in the Present


7 Before It Ends: Aging, Gender, and Migration in a

Transnational Mexican Community

Julia Pauli


8 Disrupted Futures: The Shifting Aspirations of Older

Cameroonians Living in Displacement

Nele Wolter


9 “Setting Off from the Mountain Pass”: Facing Death

and Preparing for the Journey Ahead in

Tibetan Exile

Harmandeep Kaur Gill


Afterword

Erdmute Alber


Acknowledgments

Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Co-Autor Dumitrita Lunca, Lisa Johnson
Zusatzinfo 1 bw, 7 color, 2 tables
Verlagsort New Brunswick NJ
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 235 mm
Gewicht 64 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Geriatrie
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-9788-3041-6 / 1978830416
ISBN-13 978-1-9788-3041-7 / 9781978830417
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