ABSTRACT
This book examines the transformations in home lives arising in later life and resulting from global migrations. It provides insight into the ways in which contemporary demographic processes of aging and migration shape the meaning, experience and making of home for those in older age. Chapters explore how home is negotiated in relation to possibilities for return to the "homeland," family networks, aging and health, care cultures and belonging. The book deliberately crosses emerging sub-fields in transnationalism studies by offering case studies on aging labour migrants, retirement migrants, and return migrants, as well as older people affected by the movement of others including family members and migrant care workers. The diversity of people’s experiences of home in later life is fully explored and the impact of social class, gender, and nationality, as well as the corporeal dimensions of older age, are all in evidence.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |38 pages
Intergenerational Transnational Homes
part |51 pages
Home Strategies of Ageing and Mobility
chapter |12 pages
Emotional or Instrumental?
chapter |12 pages
Transnational Mobility and ‘Insideness'
part |38 pages
Returning ‘Home' in Older Age
chapter |11 pages
Deferring the Inevitable Return ‘Home'
chapter |13 pages
Changing Notions of Home Across the Life Cycle
chapter |12 pages
Expatriate Belongings
part |48 pages
Ageing in Transnational Space
chapter |12 pages
Creating, Maintaining and Losing Home in Ireland
chapter |11 pages
‘I Am Now a Nobody'
chapter |12 pages
Ageing ‘Phantasmagorically' in Exile
chapter |11 pages
Ageing, Embodiment and Emotions in Orientations to Home
part |40 pages
Transnationalism and Elderly Care