ABSTRACT
This chapter examines aging and globalization at the micro-level of local communities and individuals. It also examines the ways in which globalization and immigration, along with greater opportunities for maintaining transnational identities, have influenced the position of older adults within their familial and larger social systems, and how these factors have created new perceptions of what aging means for these individuals within the context of their social support networks. The chapter focuses on older immigrants and refugees in the United States, using examples from the ethnographic and applied work and older adults living in a highly diverse urban area. It also focuses on aging is that immigration is a potentially disruptive event in the overall life course experience and can have great impact and grave consequences for how older adults live out their years in new or shifting environments. The chapter discusses the potential effects of macro-level forces such as neoliberalism on the lives of older immigrants and refugees.
