This book focuses on the diverse interrelationships between aging and transnationality. It argues that the lives of older people are increasingly entangled in transnational contexts on the social as well as the cultural, economic and political levels. Within these contexts, older people both actively contribute to and are affected by border-crossing processes. In addition, while some may voluntarily opt for adding a transnational dimension to their lives, others may have less choice in the matter. Transnational aging, therefore, provides a critical lens on how older people shape, organize and cope with life in contexts that are no longer bound to the frame of a single nation-state. Accordingly, the book emphasizes the agency of older people as well as the personal and structural constraints of their situations. The chapters in this book reveal these aspects by approaching transnational aging from different methodological angles, such as ethnographic research, comparative studies, quantitative data, and policy and discourse analysis. Geographically, the chapters cover a wide range of countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America, such as Namibia, Thailand, Russia, Germany, the United States and Ecuador.
Introduction: Transnational Aging: Current Insights and Future
Challenges Vincent Horn and Cornelia Schweppe Part A: Aging and the Family in
Transnational Contexts: Cross-Border Activities and Intergenerational
Relationships
1. Migration Regimes and Family-Related Transnational
Activities of Older Peruvians in Spain and the United States Vincent Horn
2.
Intergenerational Solidarity in Migrant Families from the Former Soviet
Union: Comparing Migrants Whose Parents Live in Germany to Migrants with
Parents Abroad Elena Sommer and Claudia Vogel
3. Remaking the Yanga Kawsay:
Andean Elders, Children, and Domestic Abuse in the Transmigration Logics of
Highland Ecuador Jason Pribilsky
4. Transnational Babushka: Grandmothers and
Family-Making Between Russian Karelia and Finland Tatiana Tiaynen-Qadir Part
B: Migration in Later Life: Transnational Strategies and Managing Risk in Old
Age
5. Transnational Aging as Reflected in Germanys Pension Insurance Ralf
Himmelreicher and Wolfgang Keck
6. Maintaining Dual Residences to Manage
Risks in Later Life: A Comparison of Two Groups of Older Migrants Anita
Böcker and Canan Balkir
7. Pendular Migration of the Older First Generations
in Europe: Misconceptions and Nuances Tineke Fokkema, Eralba Cela and Yvonne
Witter Part C: Facets of Old Age Care in a Transnational World: Traveling
Institutions, Boundary Objects and Regimes of Inequality
8. Moving (for)
Elder Care Abroad: The Fragile Promises of Old Age Care Facilities for
Elderly Germans in Thailand Vincent Horn, Cornelia Schweppe, Désirée Bender
and Tina Hollstein
9. Traveling Institutions as Transnational Aging: The
Old-Age Home in Idea and Practice in India Sarah Lamb
10. Negotiating the
Potato: The Challenge of Dealing with Multiple Diversities in Elder Care
Karin van Holten and Eva Soom Ammann
11. More Than Demand and Demographic
Ageing: Transnational Ageing, Care and Care Migration Susan McDaniel and
Seonggee Um Part D: Social Protection and Transnational Aging: The
Circulation of Ideas and the Role of Non-Governmental Actors
12. Older
Persons Rights: How Ideas Travel in International Development Carmen Grimm
13. From Alms to Rights: Boundaries of a Transnational Non-Governmental
Organization Implementing an Unconditional Old-Age Pension Katrin Fröhlich
Vincent Horn is a PhD candidate and resesarch associate in the Institute of Education at the University of Mainz (Germany).
Cornelia Schweppe is a Professor of Social Pedagogy in the Institute of Education and Director of the Research Center for Transnational Social Support (TRANSSOS) at the University of Mainz (Germany).
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