Chinese Senior Migrants and the Globalization of Retirement - by Nicole Dejong Newendorp (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Focusing on Chinese-born senior migrants' engagement in transnational lifeways and global mobility processes as they relocate to the U.S. in the latter decades of their lives, Newendorp sheds light on seniors' strategies for achieving later-life goals within a context of rapidly aging population demographics and global neoliberal trends that have simultaneously rendered seniors' lifeways more precarious.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Focusing on Chinese-born senior migrants' engagement in transnational lifeways and global mobility processes as they relocate to the U.S. in the latter decades of their lives, Newendorp sheds light on seniors' strategies for achieving later-life goals within a context of rapidly aging population demographics and global neoliberal trends that have simultaneously rendered seniors' lifeways more precarious.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>Chinese Senior Migrants and the Globalization of Retirement</i> is a thoroughly researched, well written, and engaging ethnographic study of contemporary Cantonese senior migration. Though centered in Boston's Chinatown, Newendorp skilfully contextualizes the migration stories of Cantonese seniors within broader historical trajectories of pre- and post-1949 Cantonese transnational migration, as she speaks to the broader phenomenon of the 'globalization of retirement.'--Andrea Louie "Michigan State University"<br><br>In this timely and intriguing book, Newendorp offers a vivid and insightful anthropological account of the unique and multifaceted experiences of Chinese senior migrants as well as their sustained struggles and aspirations for belonging, wellbeing, dignity, and the good life in American society. It propels readers to rethink the meanings and possibilities of retirement and aging in the age of global mobility.--Li Zhang "University of California, Davis, author of <i>In Search of Paradise</i> and <i>Strangers in the City</i>"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Nicole DeJong Newendorp</b> is Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies and Lecturer on the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies at Harvard University. She is the author of <i>Uneasy Reunions: Immigration, Citizenship, and Family Life in Post-1997 Hong Kong</i> (Stanford, 2008).
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