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Sun, Ken Chih-Yan,

Time and migration : how long-term Taiwanese migrants negotiate later life / Ken Chih-Yan Sun. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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."--

ISBN: 1501754890 (electronic book) 9781501754883 (electronic book) 1501754882 (electronic book) 9781501754890 (electronic bk.) (hardcover)

Source: 22573/ctv153kgrg JSTOR

LCCN: 2020030344

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
2000-2099

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Taiwanese--Social conditions--United States--21st century.
Older Asian Americans--Social conditions--21st century.
Older immigrants--Family relationships.
Generations--Social aspects.
Old age--Social aspects.
Taiwanais--Conditions sociales--États-Unis--21e siècle.
Personnes âgées américaines d'origine asiatique--Conditions sociales--21e siècle.
Personnes âgées immigrantes--Relations familiales.
Générations--Aspect social.
Vieillesse--Aspect social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Emigration & Immigration.
Emigration and immigration--Social aspects
Old age--Social aspects

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Taiwan--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
United States--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
Taiwan
United States

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: E184.T35 / S86 2021

Dewey Class. No.: 305.26086/912