Overview

This book explores the complex intersections of ageing, migration, and transnational family life. Migration reshapes family structures and alters the quality and dynamics of relationships across generations and borders. Rather than viewing ageing solely from the perspective of older adults, this edited volume conceptualizes ageing as a life-long process, offering important connections to life-course perspectives on families and intergenerational relationships. Amid intensified global mobility and population ageing, the chapters present both quantitative and qualitative research from diverse contexts around the world. Together, they illuminate underexamined groups and social settings in the fields of ageing and migration, expanding and deepening current scholarly debates. Drawing on data from a range of social science disciplines, the volume provides rigorous analyses of aged care, health, parenthood, gender, and culture. It reveals the multifaceted ways in which ageing shapes family relationships within the context of migration and transnationalism. The contributions examine how ageing migrants navigate their own experiences of growing older while living apart from their adult children and kin, and how migrants engage with notions of well-being, care, and filial obligation in relation to ageing parents who remain in their countries of origin. Interdisciplinary in scope, this book will appeal to scholars and students of migration studies, family sociology, social gerontology, diaspora studies, and anthropology, offering new insights into the lived realities of ageing and care in a transnational world.

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Author:   Allen J. Kim ,  Johanna O. Zulueta
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9789819559022

ISBN 10:   9819559022
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   01 March 2026
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction: The Shifting Landscape of Ageing and Family in a Globalised World.- Chapter 2: Multi-Generational Adaptation: The Case of Portuguese Transnational Kinship Dynamics.- Chapter 3: Intersections of Migration, Intergenerational Relations and Eldercare: Japan’s Long-term Migrants and Their Approaches to Familial Communication and Parental Support.-Chapter 4: Geographic Separation and Intergenerational Ties: Filipino Older Parents in Transnational Families.- Chapter 5: Mothers’ Agency in Tanshin Funin: Sustaining Transnational Care in Japanese Families.- Chapter 6: Migration, Ageing, and Transnational Care Circulation: Examining the Case of Older Female Migrants in Malaysia.- Chapter 7: Greek Migrants Ageing in Australia: An Intergenerational Perspective.- Chapter 8: Ageing and Well-being in the Transnational Space of Care: Exploring the Narratives of Chinese Migrant Older Parents.- Chapter 9: Gender, Ageing, and the Filipino Migrant Family Online: Filipina Facebook Vloggers (Reels) in Japan.- Chapter 10: The Contested Legacies of Fatherhood: Filial Memory Work and Intergenerational Healing in the Korean American Diaspora.- Chapter 11: Intergenerational Social Capital and Well-being: Myanmar Migrants’ Practices and Perspectives in Thailand’s Ageing Society.- Chapter 12: Homesick, Retired, or Just Rootless? Challenges of a Family-based Return Migration in Poland and Bulgaria.- Chapter 13: The Impact of Caregiving and Family Function on the Health Care and Social Well-Being of Return Older Migrants in Chivi South District, Zimbabwe.- Chapter 14: Ageing Between Worlds: Lived Realities of Zimbabwean Migrants in South Africa and Zimbabwe.

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Allen J. Kim is Senior Associate Professor of Sociology at International Christian University and a lecturer at Waseda University’s Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies in Tokyo, Japan. His research explores migration, transnational families, aging, and the intersections of gender and fatherhood. He also examines the sociology of personal finance, Gen Z, and entrepreneurship. Johanna O. Zulueta is Professor of Sociology at the Faculty of Sociology of Toyo University, Japan and Lecturer (visiting) at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines. She does research on migrations in East Asia, looking at issues related to ethnicities, military basing, gender and families, citizenship, multiculturalism, and ageing. Her most recent publication is Disrupted Mobilities: Filipinos in Japan and Japanese in the Philippines (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025). 

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