Description
Book SynopsisBased on longitudinal ethnographic work on migration between the United States and Taiwan, Time and Migration interrogates how long-term immigrants negotiate their needs as they grow older and how transnational migration shapes later-life transitions. Ken Chih-Yan Sun develops the concept of a temporalities of migration to examine the interaction between space, place, and time. He demonstrates how long-term settlement in the United States, coupled with changing homeland contexts, has inspired aging immigrants and returnees to rethink their sense of social belonging, remake intimate relations, and negotiate opportunities and constraints across borders. 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. Aging, Sun argues, is a global issue and must be reconsidered in a cross-border
Trade Review
This book highlights transnationalism, the complex, evolving, and continuing identity and allegiance that these Taiwanese migrants have to both their country of origin and their country of choice. Time and Migration makes a significant contribution to research examining the diversity of immigrant experiences worldwide.
* International Migration Review *
Time and Migration is a valuable book for scholars and students in multiple subdisciplines: migration, aging, and family. [T]his research uncovers how people and places change over time, the interaction between these changes, and their impact on immigrants' own identities and relationships.
* Social Forces *
Time and Migration is a valuable book for scholars and students in multiple subdisciplines[.] It makes an essential call for additional, longitudinal research on older immigrants.
* Social Forces *
This book is a prototype of transnational research at its best, with the longitudinal multisite ethnography and the comparative research design at its core, thus yielding key insights in the intersection of migration, aging, and family.
* Contemporary Sociology *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: How Time Complicates Migratory Experiences
1. Emigrating, Staying, and Returning
2. Reconfiguring Intergenerational Reciprocity
3. Remaking Conjugality
4. Doing Grandparenthood
5. Navigating Networks of Support
6. Articulating Logics of Social Rights
Conclusion: Rethinking Time, Migration, and Aging
