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Aging in a Changing World challenges simplified images of old people as racist, nostalgic, and resistant to change – stereotypes that have only grown more prevalent with the Brexit vote and the 2016 election of Donald Trump. This book takes a deep, nuanced look at the experiences of older people who, while “aging in place,” have been profoundly impacted by global population movement and the dramatic development of modern multiculturalism around them.
List of contents
List of Illustrations
1 Aging in Times of Great Change
2 Global Movement, Everyday Multiculturalism, and Aging
3 Constructing the Field and Recruiting the Urban Stranger
4 "Then and Now": Narratives of Change
5 Older New Zealanders' Immigration-Related Concerns
6 A Surprise Twist? Older New Zealanders as Approachable and Accepting
7 Mentoring "Kiwiness"
8 Cosmopolitan Cadences
9 Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index
About the author
MOLLY GEORGE is a research fellow at the Centre for Pacific Health and the Department of General Practice and Rural Health at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.
Summary
Challenges simplified images of the old as racist, nostalgic and resistant to change by taking a deeper, more nuanced look at older people's complex relationship with the diversity and multiculturalism that has grown and developed around them.
