Vincent Horn - Transnational Aging: Current Insights and Future Challenges

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, the economic, and the political, level. 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, and North and South America, such as Namibia, Thailand, Russia, Germany, the US, and Ecuador.

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 the director of the Research Center for Transnational Social Support (TRANSSOS) at the University of Mainz (Germany).

5Communities across Borders

New Immigrants and Transnational Cultures

Edited by Paul Kennedy and Victor Roudometof

6Transnational Spaces

Edited by Peter Jackson, Phil Crang and Claire Dwyer

7The Media of Diaspora

Edited by Karim H. Karim

8Transnational Politics

Turks and Kurds in Germany

Eva stergaard-Nielsen

9Culture and Economy in the Indian Diaspora

Edited by Bhikhu Parekh, Gurharpal Singh and Steven Vertovec

10International Migration and the Globalization of Domestic Politics

Edited by Rey Koslowski

11Gender in Transnationalism

Home, Longing and Belonging among Moroccan Migrant Women

Ruba Salih

12State/Nation/Transnation

Perspectives on Transnationalism in the Asia-Pacific

Edited by Brenda S. A. Yeoh and Katie Willis

13Transnational Activism in Asia

Problems of Power and Democracy

Edited by Nicola Piper and Anders Uhlin

14Diaspora, Identity and Religion

New Directions in Theory and Research

Edited by Waltraud Kokot, Khachig Tllyan and Carolin Alfonso

15Cross-Border Governance in the European Union

Edited by Olivier Thomas Kramsch and Barbara Hooper

16Transnational Connections and the Arab Gulf

Edited by Madawi Al-Rasheed

17Central Asia and the Caucasus

Transnationalism and Diaspora

Edited by Touraj Atabaki and Sanjyot Mehendale

18International Migration and Security

Opportunities and Challenges

Edited by Elspeth Guild and Joanne van Selm

19Transnational European Union

Towards a Common Political Space

Edited by Wolfram Kaiser with Peter Starie

20Geopolitics of European Union Enlargement

The Fortress Empire

Edited by Warwick Armstrong and James Anderson

21Rethinking Transnationalism

The Meso-link of Organisations

Edited by Ludger Pries

22Theorising Transnational Migration

The Status Paradox of Migration

Boris Nieswand

23Migration, Nation States, and International Cooperation

Edited by Randall Hansen, Jobst Koehler and Jeannette Money

24Beyond Methodological Nationalism

Research Methodologies for Cross-Border Studies

Edited by Anna Amelina, Devrimsel D. Nergiz, Thomas Faist and Nina Glick Schiller

25Transnationalism and Urbanism

Edited by Stefan Krtke, Kathrin Wildner, and Stephan Lanz

26Transnational Marriage

New Perspectives from Europe and Beyond

Edited by Katharine Charsley

27Transnational Politics and the State

The External Voting Rights of Diasporas

Jean-Michel Lafleur

28Transbordering Latin Americas

Liminal Places, Cultures, and Powers (T)Here

Edited by Clara Irazbal

29Transnational Families, Migration and the Circulation of Care

Understanding Mobility and Absence in Family Life

Edited by Loretta Baldassar and Laura Merla

30Transnational Agency and Migration

Actors, Movements, and Social Support

Edited by Stefan Kngeter and Wendy Smith

31Languages and Identities in a Transitional Japan

From Internationalization to Globalization

Edited by Ikuko Nakane, Emi Otsuji and William S. Armour

32Transnational Aging

Current Insights and Future Challenges

Edited by Vincent Horn and Cornelia Schweppe

Edited by Vincent Horn and
Cornelia Schweppe

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Transnational aging : current insights and future challenges / edited by Vincent
Horn, Cornelia Schweppe. 1st Edition.
pages cm. (Routledge research in transnationalism ; 32)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1.Older people.2.Transnationalism.I.Horn, Vincent, editor.II.Schweppe, Cornelia, 1955 editor.
HQ1061.T745 2016
305.26dc23
2015019523

ISBN: 978-1-138-79070-4 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-75639-4 (ebk)

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VINCENT HORN AND CORNELIA SCHWEPPE

Part A
Aging and the Family in Transnational Contexts: Cross-Border Activities and Intergenerational Relationships

VINCENT HORN

ELENA SOMMER AND CLAUDIA VOGEL

JASON PRIBILSKY

TATIANA TIAYNEN-QADIR

Part B
Migration in Later Life: Transnational Strategies and Managing Risk in Old Age