Aspiring in Later Life : Movements Across Time, Space, and Generations.

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Amrith, Megha
Otros Autores: Sakti, Victoria K., Sampaio, Dora, Lunca, Dumitrita, Johnson, Lisa, Alber, Erdmute, Coe, Cati, Kaur Gill, Harmandeep, Otaegui, Alfonso, Pauli, Julia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : Rutgers University Press, 2023.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Global perspectives on aging series.
Temas:
Older people > Cross-cultural studies.
Older immigrants > Cross-cultural studies.
Older people > Social life and customs.
Older people > Psychology.
Hope.
Desire.
Désir.
Espérance.
Personnes âgées immigrantes > Études transculturelles.
Personnes âgées > Psychologie.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
aging, goal, aspirations, anthropology, sociology, mobility, retirement, legacy.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : aspiring in later life : movements across time, space, and generations / Megha Amrith, Victoria K. Sakti, and Dora Sampaio
  • Growing old hand in hand : aspirations of romantic love in later life among Romanian transmigrants in Rome / Dumitrița Luncă
  • Letting go and looking ahead : the aspirations of middle-aged migrant domestic workers in Singapore and Hong Kong / Megha Amrith
  • Aspirational movements : later life mobility as a female resource to age well / Lisa Johnson
  • Aspiring to retire : intergenerational care in a Ghanaian transnational family / Cati Coe
  • 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
  • Whose aspirations? Intergenerational expectations and hopes in eastern Uganda / Susan Reynolds Whyte
  • Before it ends : aging, gender, and migration in a transnational Mexican community / Julia Pauli
  • Disrupted futures : the shifting aspirations of older Cameroonians living in displacement / Nele Wolter
  • "Setting off from the mountain pass:" facing death and preparing for the journey ahead in Tibetan exile / Harmandeep Kaur Gill.

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