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Author Sun, Ken Chih-Yan, 1978- author.

Title Time and migration : how long-term Taiwanese migrants negotiate later life / Ken Chih-Yan Sun.

Publication Info. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.

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Description 1 online resource
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents How time complicates migratory experiences -- Emigrating, staying, and returning -- Reconfiguring intergenerational reciprocity -- Remaking conjugality -- Doing grandparenthood -- Navigating networks of support -- Articulating logics of social rights -- Rethinking time, migration, and aging.
Summary "Based on 115 interviews with elderly Taiwanese immigrants who have resided in the US from 30 to 50 years, Ken Sun asks in Time and Migration how 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."-- Provided by publisher
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Subject Taiwanese -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Taiwanese.
United States.
Social conditions.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject Older Asian Americans -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Older Asian Americans.
Older immigrants -- Family relationships.
Older immigrants.
Generations -- Social aspects.
Generations.
Social aspects.
Old age -- Social aspects.
Old age -- Social aspects.
Taiwan -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
Taiwan.
Emigration and immigration.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
Families.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Sun, Ken Chih-Yan. Time and migration. Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021 9781501754876 (DLC) 2020030343
ISBN 1501754890 (electronic book)
9781501754883 (electronic book)
1501754882 (electronic book)
9781501754890 (electronic book)
9781501754876 (hardcover)