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Transnational ageing is a relatively understudied topic compared to the academic attention that has been given to other aspects of transnational familyhood. Increasingly, older adults are moving across national borders to provide care or to receive care, while also participating in such care circulations are younger transnational migrants who are family members of those older adults or who have been employed to care for older adults. The experiences of older migrants and their care relations with familial and non-familial persons remain under-researched, but the way they journey between sending/receiving societal contexts, maintaining care relations transnationally, is deserving of academic and policy attention. The journeys they make bring about changes to the notions and practices of ageing at the individual, household, community and national levels. The researchers assembled for this workshop will be contributing interdisciplinary insights on how ageing is experienced across national borders, namely to do with:

• the multi-directionality of care (e.g. caring for/caring by older people) across borders,
• the array of human and non-human actors/actants involved in caring across borders (e.g. care relations and digital technologies),
• advancing grounded theorisation of what ageing across borders means in changing Asia (e.g. the cultural meanings attached to such social processes, the transnational social protections extended to or withheld from those who age across borders), and
• eliciting connections and comparisons on ageing and migration across Asian sites and beyond

This workshop aims to extend conceptualisation of how ageing, migration and transnationalism mutually constitute one another, with reference to both older and younger migrants as well as the role of non-human actants (e.g. digital technologies). While the workshop gives primary focus to how the above trends manifest in Asia, it also seeks to contribute to wider theorization beyond Asian cases.

CONVENORS

Associate Professor Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho
Asia Research Institute, and Department of Geography, NUS

Associate Professor Shirlena Huang
Department of Geography, NUS

Associate Professor Thang Leng Leng
Department of Japanese Studies, NUS

Professor Brenda Yeoh
Asia Research Institute, and Department of Geography, NUS

REGISTRATION

Admission is free, and we greatly appreciate if you complete the form below to indicate your interest to attend the event.