Ageing and Transnational Lives
Negotiating Care, Mobility, and Belonging
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Beschreibung
This book explores the complex intersections of ageing, migration, and transnational family life. Migration reshapes family structures and alters the quality and dynamics of relationships across generations and borders. Rather than viewing ageing solely from the perspective of older adults, this edited volume conceptualizes ageing as a life-long process, offering important connections to life-course perspectives on families and intergenerational relationships. Amid intensified global mobility and population ageing, the chapters present both quantitative and qualitative research from diverse contexts around the world. Together, they illuminate underexamined groups and social settings in the fields of ageing and migration, expanding and deepening current scholarly debates. Drawing on data from a range of social science disciplines, the volume provides rigorous analyses of aged care, health, parenthood, gender, and culture. It reveals the multifaceted ways in which ageing shapes family relationships within the context of migration and transnationalism. The contributions examine how ageing migrants navigate their own experiences of growing older while living apart from their adult children and kin, and how migrants engage with notions of well-being, care, and filial obligation in relation to ageing parents who remain in their countries of origin. Interdisciplinary in scope, this book will appeal to scholars and students of migration studies, family sociology, social gerontology, diaspora studies, and anthropology, offering new insights into the lived realities of ageing and care in a transnational world.
Allen J. Kim is Senior Associate Professor of Sociology at International Christian University and a lecturer at Waseda University’s Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies in Tokyo, Japan. His research explores migration, transnational families, aging, and the intersections of gender and fatherhood. He also examines the sociology of personal finance, Gen Z, and entrepreneurship.
Johanna O. Zulueta is Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Sociology of Toyo University, Japan and Lecturer (visiting) at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines. She does research on migrations in East Asia, looking at issues related to ethnicities, military basing, gender and families, citizenship, multiculturalism, and ageing. Her most recent publication is Disrupted Mobilities: Filipinos in Japan and Japanese in the Philippines (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025).
This book explores the complex intersections of ageing, migration, and transnational family life. Migration reshapes family structures and alters the quality and dynamics of relationships across generations and borders. Rather than viewing ageing solely from the perspective of older adults, this edited volume conceptualizes ageing as a life-long process, offering important connections to life-course perspectives on families and intergenerational relationships. Amid intensified global mobility and population ageing, the chapters present both quantitative and qualitative research from diverse contexts around the world. Together, they illuminate underexamined groups and social settings in the fields of ageing and migration, expanding and deepening current scholarly debates. Drawing on data from a range of social science disciplines, the volume provides rigorous analyses of aged care, health, parenthood, gender, and culture. It reveals the multifaceted ways in which ageing shapes family relationships within the context of migration and transnationalism. The contributions examine how ageing migrants navigate their own experiences of growing older while living apart from their adult children and kin, and how migrants engage with notions of well-being, care, and filial obligation in relation to ageing parents who remain in their countries of origin. Interdisciplinary in scope, this book will appeal to scholars and students of migration studies, family sociology, social gerontology, diaspora studies, and anthropology, offering new insights into the lived realities of ageing and care in a transnational world.
Connects migration, family sociology, and gerontology to reframe ageing as relational and adaptive Examines how ageing migrants navigate growing older away from kin, balancing care, well-being, and filial duty Encompasses case studies from Europe, Africa, the United States, and Asia-Pacific
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Allen J. Kim
Themen in »Ageing and Transnational Lives«
transnational families critical gerontology migration ageing migrants intergenerational relationships life course theory transnational caregiving filial piety intersectionality families ageing digital kinning mobility kin networks intergenerational care