Ageing in transnational contexts: transforming everyday practices and identities in later life

ABSTRACT

This Special Issue on ‘Ageing in Transnational Contexts: Transforming Everyday Practices and Identities in Later Life’ extends our understanding of how ageing is experienced in transnational contexts. It focuses on how everyday lives and identities in older age are being negotiated by individuals who have migration histories or who are affected by the mobilities of others in their lives. In the introduction, we situate our approach within an emerging strand of research investigating the inter-related processes of ageing and transnational migration. We also present the seven empirical case studies that constitute the issue and discuss their collective contribution for the research field.

KEYWORDS:

• Ageing
• transnationalism
• everyday
• transnational ageing
• everyday practices
• older age

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Notes

1. This Special Issue is one of the outcomes of a European Science Foundation – funded Exploratory Workshop ‘Rethinking Older Age: Transnational Migration, Home and Cultures of Care’ (EW 11-223) which Näre and Walsh convened at the University of Helsinki in August 2012. We are grateful to all the hard work the contributors, the anonymous reviewers, the Editors and the Journal Manager of Identities have put into this issue.

2. In addition to the established research strands Torres and Karl (2016, 6) mention also demographic studies of migration and ageing societies from the perspective of the population structure as a fifth stream.

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Funding

This work was supported by the European Science Foundation [EW11-223].