Aging, Migration, and Digital Technologies Welfare, Inclusion, and Transnational Lives in the Nordics and Japan

1. Approaching Migration and Aging through the Lens of the Digital: the Nordics and Japan

Anna Pechurina, Ksenia Golovina, Satu Heikkinen, Tara Mehrabi

Part 1: Navigating Digital Health and Welfare Services

2. Forced Digital Leap? Older Russian Speaking Migrants’ Access to Digital Public Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Finland

Laura Kemppainen, Ulla Buchert, Sirpa Wrede, Anne Kouvonen

3. The Logic of Optimized Care: The Managerial Technologies in the Care Services for Older Adults and the Mobilized Workforce in Finland

Erika Takahashi

Part 2: Aging, Migration, and Urban Cohesion: Community Initiatives and Digital Inclusion

4. Aging and Immigration in Housing Complexes at Tokyo Kita City: Digital Technology or Community Power?

Kazuki Murakami

5. Reciprocal Help: How Young Migrants Bridge Local Communities Through Analog and Digital Practices in Aging Japan

Mariia Ermilova and Mitsunari Terada

6. The Role of Digitalization in Creating an Age-Friendly Environment for Older Immigrants in Finland

Shahnaj Begum

Part 3: Intimacy, Belonging, and Digital Kinship in Migrant Women’s Later Lives

7. Transformation of Digital Communication among Female Migrants in Japan: The Case of Women from Former Soviet States

Viktoriya Kim

8. Digital Kinning and Digital Homing: Navigating Transnational Care Among Aging Migrant Women in Sweden

Merve Tuncer

9. Filial Daughters from a Distance: Transnational Daughtering and Filial Technologies among Filipina Migrants in Japan

Jocelyn O. Celero and Maria Reinaruth D. Carlos

10. Multi-ethnic Aging Across Generations in Japan: Configurations of Care and Technology. Interview with Jackie J. Kim-Wachutka.

Jackie J. Kim-Wachutka (interviewed by Ksenia Golovina and Satu Heikkinen)

Biography

Ksenia Golovina is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Sociology at Toyo University, Japan.

Anna Pechurina is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Karlstad University, Sweden.

Satu Heikkinen is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Karlstad University, Sweden.

Tara Mehrabi is an Associate Professor in Gender Studies at the Department for Social and Psychological Studies at Karlstad University, Sweden.

'Aging, Migration, and Digital Technologies is essential not only for understanding the complex interactions between technology, migration histories, and welfare systems, but also for showing how digitalization is reshaping inequality in aging societies—especially for migrants navigating welfare, care, and family life across borders.'

Igor Saveliev, co-editor of Migration, Aging and Japan’s Sustainable Society.

'Aging, Migration, and Digital Technologies is an important book that shows how aging, migration, gender, and digital technologies intersect to reshape inequality in welfare systems and transnational family life. Focusing on older migrants, it demonstrates how digitalization both enables and constrains access to rights, care, and social participation across borders.'

Sofi Fristedt, The Institute of Gerontology, Jönköping University, Sweden.