Chinese Migrants Ageing in a Foreign Land : Home Beyond Culture

Liu, Shuang

Routledge（2019/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 112 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780367218225
• DDC分類 305.26089951094

Full Description

This book advances a new understanding of acculturation processes for older migrants, drawing on empirical data from migrants of Chinese heritage in Australia. It challenges the traditional models of acculturation, questions the conventional notion of integration and analyses the fluid nature of cultural identities. Drawing on insights from environmental gerontology, intercultural communication and acculturation theories, it conceptualises ageing in a foreign land as a home-building process, highlighting the collective contributions of individual, community, social, cultural, technological and environmental factors to older migrants' well-being. A consideration of what it means to age 'in place' for those whose home is not necessarily attached to one place and one culture, this volume will appeal to social scientists with interests in ageing, gerontology, migration and diaspora, as well as those working in the fields of aged care policy.

Contents

List of figures

Preface

1. Ageing in a foreign land

2. Research context and methodology

3. Home as a place: physical insideness

4. Home as relationships: social and cultural insideness

5. Home as a transnational place: autobiographical insideness

6. Building a sense of home in a foreign land

Index