1st Edition
Chinese Migrants Ageing in a Foreign Land Home Beyond Culture
By Shuang Liu
Copyright 2019
122 Pages
by
Routledge
122 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
122 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book advances a new understanding of acculturation processes for older migrants, drawing on empirical data from migrants of Chinese heritage in Australia. It challenges the traditional models of acculturation, questions the conventional notion of integration and analyses the fluid nature of cultural identities. Drawing on insights from environmental gerontology, intercultural communication... Read more
List of figures
Preface
1. Ageing in a foreign land
2. Research context and methodology
3. Home as a place: physical insideness
4. Home as relationships: social and cultural insideness
5. Home as a transnational place: autobiographical insideness
6. Building a sense of home in a foreign land
Index
Biography
Shuang Liu is Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Arts at The University Queensland, Australia. She is the author of Identity, Hybridity and Cultural Home: Chinese Migrants and Diaspora in Multicultural Societies and the lead author of Introducing Intercultural Communication: Global Cultures and Contexts.
