{"product_id":"aspiring-in-later-life-movements-across-time-space-and-generations-9781978830400","title":"Aspiring in Later Life: Movements across Time,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. \u003ci\u003eAspiring in Later Life\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book is also freely available online as an open-access digital edition.​\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDownload the open access book here.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A welcome addition to the study of migration and aging, this volume explores ambition, intimacy, and other aspirations as elders envision a good life and craft new vistas in later years. Ethnographically vivid fieldwork draws the reader into the uncertainties and elations of intergenerational households of transmigrants, returnees, and refugees.\" \u003cbr\u003e   -- Michele Ruth Gamburd * author of Linked Lives: Elder Care, Migration, and Kinship in Sri Lanka *\u003cbr\u003e“This important volume advances the idea that people do have aspirations all through the life course and that we need to know more about their thoughts, choices, and how they dynamically engage with cultural scripts about aging.\"\u003cbr\u003e   -- Sherylyn Briller * professor of anthropology at Purdue University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMegha Amrith, Victoria K. Sakti, and Dora Sampaio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e PA R T  I\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDesire and Self-Realization\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 1 Growing Old Hand in Hand: Aspirations of\u003cbr\u003e Romantic Love in Later Life among Romanian \u003cbr\u003e Transmigrants in Rome\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDumitrița Luncă\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 2 Letting Go and Looking Ahead: The Aspirations of\u003cbr\u003e Middle-Aged Migrant Domestic Workers in Singapore\u003cbr\u003e and Hong Kong\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMegha Amrith\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 3 Aspirational Movements: Later-Life Mobility as a\u003cbr\u003e Female Resource to Age Well\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLisa Johnson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e PA R T I I\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIntergenerational Negotiations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 4 Aspiring to Retire: Intergenerational Care in a\u003cbr\u003e Ghanaian Transnational Family\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCati Coe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 5 Between Aging Parents There and Young \u003cbr\u003e Children Here: The Aspirations of Late-Middle-Aged\u003cbr\u003e Peruvian Migrants in Santiago as a Transnational\u003cbr\u003e Sandwich Generation\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlfonso Otaegui\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 6 Whose Aspirations? Intergenerational Expectations\u003cbr\u003e and Hopes in Eastern Uganda\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSusan Reynolds Whyte\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e PA RT I I I\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiving in the Present\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 7 Before It Ends: Aging, Gender, and Migration in a\u003cbr\u003e Transnational Mexican Community\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJulia Pauli\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 8 Disrupted Futures: The Shifting Aspirations of Older\u003cbr\u003e Cameroonians Living in Displacement\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNele Wolter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 9 “Setting Off from the Mountain Pass”: Facing Death\u003cbr\u003e and Preparing for the Journey Ahead in\u003cbr\u003e Tibetan Exile\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHarmandeep Kaur Gill\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Afterword\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eErdmute Alber\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48869295620439,"sku":"9781978830400","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/aspiring-in-later-life-movements-across-time-space-and-generations-9781978830400","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}