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

• Autore: Amrith Megha
• Pubblicazione: Chicago : , : Rutgers University Press, , 2023; ©2023
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (205 pages)
• Disciplina: 305.26
• Soggetto topico: Older people; Older immigrants; Older people - Social life and customs; Older people - Psychology; Hope; Desire
• Soggetto non controllato: aging, goal, aspirations, anthropology, sociology, mobility, retirement, legacy
• Altri autori: SaktiVictoria K SampaioDora LuncaDumitrita JohnsonLisa AlberErdmute CoeCati Kaur GillHarmandeep OtaeguiAlfonso PauliJulia
• 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"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Aspiring in Later Life
• ISBN: 1-9788-3043-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996552347703316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Global Perspectives on Aging Series