Shifting Selves in Migration: home, ageing in place and well-being
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Older Chinese immigrants are one of the largest ethnic ageing groups in New Zealand. However, older Chinese people’s everyday experiences of settling in a new and unfamiliar environment have been largely overlooked. This book explores the biographies, identities and everyday experiences of filial piety among older Chinese immigrants. Particular consideration is given to the role of filial piety in participants' housing and ageing experiences. The book is one of the first explorations of Chinese immigrant ageing in place, which also considers changing enactments of filial piety. The research is informed by a hybrid narrative approach that draws on episodic, go-along and fangtan interview techniques used with 32 older Chinese immigrants in Auckland and Hamilton. The book demonstrates the importance of considering how ageing occurs beyond physical spaces and within cultural, social, relational and imagined landscapes. The analysis shifts away from the focus in existing literature on how older Chinese immigrants are passively transformed into minority subjects to how they are transforming themselves through migration and their efforts to age well in New Zealand.
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978-7-5117-1778-8
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Central Compilation & Translation Press
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Beijing, China
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