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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1501754890
  • 9781501754883
  • 1501754882
  • 9781501754890
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Time and migration.DDC classification:
  • 305.26086/912 23
LOC classification:
  • E184.T35 S86 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
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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."-- Provided by publisher

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