Ken Chih-Yan Sun, "Time and Migration: How Long-Term Taiwanese Migrants Negotiate Later Life" (Cornell UP, 2021)
New Books in Chinese Studies
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Age in Place Versus Age Transnationalism
In your book, you mention that a age in place versus age transnationalis asking this question. Age is the face where we think about our priorities and what we want to do,. And i found that many other migrants, especially after after they retire from work, they reactivate their ties to their ethnic communities or to their home land. So for my respondents, they need to think about their own futures of here or there. They also new to thinking about their chur and their granchildrens futures, ah, here, thereor elsewhere. Right? That is why all my respondents emphasize the importance of learning o their grand children, learning menderin chinese.
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