Aspiring in Later Life

MEGHA AMRITH leads the "Ageing in a Time of Mobility" research group at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in GÖttingen, Germany. She is the author of Caring for Strangers: Filipino Medical Workers in Asia and co-editor of the volume Gender, Work, and Migration.VICTORIA KUMALA SAKTI is a postdoctoral researcher in the "Ageing in a Time of Mobility" research group at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in GÖttingen, Germany. This is her first book.DORA SAMPAIO is an assistant professor in the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. She is the author of Migration, Diversity and Inequality in Later Life: Ageing at a Crossroads.

"A welcome addition to the study of migration and aging, this volume explores ambition, intimacy, and other aspirations as elders envision a good life and craft new vistas in later years. Ethnographically vivid fieldwork draws the reader into the uncertainties and elations of intergenerational households of transmigrants, returnees, and refugees." - Michele Ruth Gamburd (author of Linked Lives: Elder Care, Migration, and Kinship in Sri Lanka) “This important volume advances the idea that people do have aspirations all through the life course and that we need to know more about their thoughts, choices, and how they dynamically engage with cultural scripts about aging."- Sherylyn Briller (professor of anthropology at Purdue University)

• Introduction 1Megha Amrith, Victoria K. Sakti, and Dora SampaioPA R T  IDesire and Self-Realization1 Growing Old Hand in Hand: Aspirations ofRomantic Love in Later Life among Romanian Transmigrants in RomeDumitrița Luncă2 Letting Go and Looking Ahead: The Aspirations ofMiddle-Aged Migrant Domestic Workers in Singaporeand Hong KongMegha Amrith3 Aspirational Movements: Later-Life Mobility as aFemale Resource to Age WellLisa JohnsonPA R T I IIntergenerational Negotiations4 Aspiring to Retire: Intergenerational Care in aGhanaian Transnational FamilyCati Coe5 Between Aging Parents There and Young Children Here: The Aspirations of Late-Middle-AgedPeruvian Migrants in Santiago as a TransnationalSandwich GenerationAlfonso Otaegui6 Whose Aspirations? Intergenerational Expectationsand Hopes in Eastern UgandaSusan Reynolds WhytePA RT I I ILiving in the Present7 Before It Ends: Aging, Gender, and Migration in aTransnational Mexican CommunityJulia Pauli8 Disrupted Futures: The Shifting Aspirations of OlderCameroonians Living in DisplacementNele Wolter9 “Setting Off from the Mountain Pass”: Facing Deathand Preparing for the Journey Ahead inTibetan ExileHarmandeep Kaur GillAfterwordErdmute AlberAcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex