Rethinking Time, Migration, and Aging

Abstract

This chapter reviews the concept of temporalities of migration and considers the ways in which aging immigrants anchor themselves in a transnational social field. It looks at the mutual processes that shape temporalities and migratory experiences and their connections with the organization of intimate relations at the individual, familial, communal, and state levels. It also examines the interaction of time and migration in the experiences of older Taiwanese migrants living in both the United States and Taiwan. The chapter analyzes the impact of time or temporalities on the identities of immigrants, establishing that relocating to a new society complicates the subjectivities of newcomers and provides new options for identity in familial, communal, and social settings. It underscores the need for reassessment of institutional responses to the needs and desires of aging migrant populations.