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Author Sun, Ken Chih-Yan, author

Title Time and migration : how long-term Taiwanese migrants negotiate later life / Ken Chih-Yan Sun
Published Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021

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Contents How time complicates migratory experiences -- Emigrating, staying, and returning -- Reconfiguring intergenerational reciprocity -- Remaking conjugality -- Doing grandparenthood -- Navigating networks of support -- Articulating logics of social rights -- Rethinking time, migration, and aging
Summary "Based on 115 interviews with elderly Taiwanese immigrants who have resided in the US from 30 to 50 years, Ken Sun asks in Time and Migration how 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."-- Provided by publisher
Analysis Aging and migration, Transnational Migration, Diaspora and homeland, taiwanese immigrants,
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 21, 2021)
Subject Taiwanese -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Older Asian Americans -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Older immigrants -- Family relationships
Generations -- Social aspects
Old age -- Social aspects
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
Old age -- Social aspects
SUBJECT Taiwan -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
Subject Taiwan
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020030344
ISBN 1501754890
9781501754883
1501754882
9781501754890