Time and migration : how long-term Taiwanese migrants negotiate later life /

Based on 115 interviews with elderly Taiwanese immigrants who have resided in the United States from 30-50 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, spou...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sun, Ken Chih-Yan (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, [2021]
Subjects:	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. Taiwan > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects. United States > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.

Table of 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.