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Record Nr.

UNISA996552347703316

Autore

Amrith Megha

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago : , : Rutgers University Press, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

1-9788-3043-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (205 pages)

Collana

Global Perspectives on Aging Series

Altri autori (Persone)

SaktiVictoria K

SampaioDora

LuncaDumitrita

JohnsonLisa

AlberErdmute

CoeCati

Kaur GillHarmandeep

OtaeguiAlfonso

PauliJulia

Disciplina

305.26

Soggetti

Older people

Older immigrants

Older people - Social life and customs

Older people - Psychology

Hope

Desire

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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. This volume flips this perspective on its head by exploring how aspirations are constructed from the vantage point of later life, and shows how they are pursued across time, space, and generations. The aspirations of older people are diverse, and relate not only to aging itself but also to planning the next generation's future, preparing an "ideal" retirement, searching for intimacy and self-realization, and confronting death and afterlives. Aspiring in Later Life brings together rich ethnographic cases from different regions of the world, offering original insights into how aspirations shift over the course of life and how they are pursued in contexts of translocal mobility"--