Determinants of later-life transnational migration: will Chinese parents join their adult children in Australia?

IF 1.8 2区社会学 Q2 GEOGRAPHY

Australian Geographer Pub Date : 2022-07-03 DOI:10.1080/00049182.2022.2098561

Xueying Xiong, Hoon Han

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ABSTRACT With the number of working-age migrants to Australia, their ageing parents may intend to move to Australia to join their adult children. The paper examines the determinants of later-life transnational migration for Chinese parents to live with their adult children who have already migrated to Australia. The later-life transnational migration decision is an interplay between the characteristics of Chinese parents and their adult children, and the nature of Australia’s migration system. This paper is the first to investigate the transnational migration decisions of Chinese parents by examining how their adult children in Australia perceived a family reunion and intergenerational trade-off in Australia as a collective family decision. This exploratory study used a multinominal logit model to identify the factors of later-life transnational migration decisions with a sample of adult children living in Sydney, Australia. The results show that the adult children’s perception of living with their parents in Australia and the mediating role of the mother, not the father, significantly affects the Chinese parents’ transnational migration. The intergenerational transfer of wealth and household support is also crucial.

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晚年跨国移民的决定因素:中国父母会和他们的成年子女一起去澳大利亚吗?

摘要随着越来越多的工作年龄移民到澳大利亚，他们年迈的父母可能打算搬到澳大利亚与成年子女团聚。本文考察了中国父母与已移居澳大利亚的成年子女生活在一起的晚年跨国移民的决定因素。晚年的跨国移民决定是中国父母及其成年子女的特点与澳大利亚移民制度的性质之间的相互作用。本文首次通过考察中国父母在澳大利亚的成年子女如何将澳大利亚的家庭团聚和代际权衡视为一种集体家庭决策，来调查中国父母的跨国移民决策。这项探索性研究使用多项logit模型，以居住在澳大利亚悉尼的成年儿童为样本，确定了晚年跨国移民决策的因素。研究结果表明，成年子女与父母在澳大利亚生活的感知以及母亲而非父亲的中介作用显著影响中国父母的跨国移民。财富的代际转移和家庭支持也至关重要。

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Australian Geographer GEOGRAPHY-

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期刊介绍： Australian Geographer was founded in 1928 and is the nation"s oldest geographical journal. It is a high standard, refereed general geography journal covering all aspects of the discipline, both human and physical. While papers concerning any aspect of geography are considered for publication, the journal focuses primarily on two areas of research: •Australia and its world region, including developments, issues and policies in Australia, the western Pacific, the Indian Ocean, Asia and Antarctica. •Environmental studies, particularly the biophysical environment and human interaction with it.