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While aspirations are most often connected to younger people, this volume argues that people do not stop aspiring in older age.
Aspiring in Later Life brings together rich ethnographic cases from different regions of the world, offering original insights into how aspirations are pursued over the course of life and in contexts of globalization and mobility.
This book is also freely available online as an open-access digital edition.
List of contents
Introduction 1
Megha Amrith, Victoria K. Sakti, and Dora Sampaio PA R T I
Desire and Self-Realization 1 Growing Old Hand in Hand: Aspirations of
Romantic Love in Later Life among Romanian
Transmigrants in Rome
Dumitri¿a Lunc¿ 2 Letting Go and Looking Ahead: The Aspirations of
Middle-Aged Migrant Domestic Workers in Singapore
and Hong Kong
Megha Amrith 3 Aspirational Movements: Later-Life Mobility as a
Female Resource to Age Well
Lisa Johnson PA R T I I
Intergenerational Negotiations 4 Aspiring to Retire: Intergenerational Care in a
Ghanaian Transnational Family
Cati Coe 5 Between Aging Parents There and Young
Children Here: The Aspirations of Late-Middle-Aged
Peruvian Migrants in Santiago as a Transnational
Sandwich Generation
Alfonso Otaegui 6 Whose Aspirations? Intergenerational Expectations
and Hopes in Eastern Uganda
Susan Reynolds Whyte PA RT I I I
Living in the Present 7 Before It Ends: Aging, Gender, and Migration in a
Transnational Mexican Community
Julia Pauli 8 Disrupted Futures: The Shifting Aspirations of Older
Cameroonians Living in Displacement
Nele Wolter 9 “Setting Off from the Mountain Pass”: Facing Death
and Preparing for the Journey Ahead in
Tibetan Exile
Harmandeep Kaur Gill Afterword
Erdmute Alber Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index
About the author
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. 
