Transnational Migration and Home in Older Age

ISBN-13: 9780367869328 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 268 str.

Katie Walsh; Lena Nare

Opis

This book focuses on the impact of transnational migration on home in older age, providing new understanding of older people’s lives by examining how their experiences of home are being transformed by transnational migration. Contributors explore innovative questions including: What impact does migration have on home-making in the lives of

Recenzje

"...this volume offers insights into an impressive and inspiring variety of social and cultural configurations. It closes a major research gap and should be a must-read for anybody dealing with gerontology, sociology and anthropology of the life course, ageing and the increasing transnationalization of home." - Heike Drotbohm, Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Department of Anthropology and African Studies, University of Mainz, Germany

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Transnational Migration and Home in Older Age  Katie Walsh and Lena Näre  Part 1: Intergenerational Transnational Homes  2. Transnational Grandmothers Making Their Multi-Sited Homes Between Finland and Russia  Tatiana Tiaynen-Qadir  3. "Home to Go": Albanian Older Parents in Transnational Social Fields  Julie Vullnetari  4. Home as Family: Narratives of Home Among Ageing Gujaratis in the UK  Lena Näre  Part 2: Home-Strategies of Ageing and Mobility  5. Constructions of "Home" Among First Generation Migrants Living in Belgium and England  Tine Buffel and Christopher Phillipson  6. Emotional or Instrumental?: Narratives of home Among North and West African Seniors in France  Alistair Hunter  7. Transnational Mobility and "Insideness": Visual Methods and the Study of Home(s) in Retirement Migrants’ Daily Lives  Stefan Kordel  8. Diminished Transnationalism?: Growing Older and Practicing Home in Thailand  Kate Botterill  Part 3: Returning "Home" in Older Age  9. Deferring the Inevitable Return "Home": Contingency and Temporality in the Transnational Home-Making Practices of Older Kenyan Women Migrants in London  Leslie Fesenmyer  10. Changing Notions of Home Across the Lifecycle: How Ageing Taiwanese Return Migrants Rethink Their Relationship to the Homeland  Ken Chih-Yan Sun  11. Expatriate Belongings: Traces of Lives "Abroad" in the Home-Making of English Returnees in Later Life  Katie Walsh  Part 4: Ageing in Transnational Space  12. Creating, Maintaining and Losing Home in Ireland: Productions of Ageing and Migration  Kieran Walsh  13. "I Am Now a Nobody": Transformations of Home and Sense of Belonging in the Life Narrative of a Retired Migrant Worker in Nuremberg  Lars Meier  14. A

O autorze

Katie Walsh is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Sussex, UK.

Lena Näre is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Helsinki, Finland.