Otaegui, A;
Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Chile: The experience of Peruvian migrants.
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Ageing with Smartphones.
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
What does it mean to be ageing in Chile as a migrant? What does it mean to be late middle-aged nowadays? How does living half of your life in a foreign country impact perspectives on later life? Is retirement an opportunity to go back to the home country? What will happen to the next generation, raised in a different country from their parents? Based on 16 months of ethnographic fieldwork, Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Chile analyses the experience of ageing for Peruvian migrants aged around 60, who have lived in Chile for over 20 years. Their lives are informed by a series of experiences of being in between. They live between two countries, two generations (their Peruvian parents and their Chilean children), two different stages in life (retained youth and menacing old age), between giving care (to their parents) and not wanting care (from their children) and between a continuing legacy (through their children, who have a promising future) and not transmitting legacy (some traditions will not pass on to the next generation). Peruvian migration has been one of the most studied in Chile. However, neither the experience of ageing of migrants in Chile nor the experience of late middle age has been fully addressed yet. By focusing on the entanglement of ageing, migration and technology, this monograph is an ethnographic contribution to an unexplored subject in the vast literature on migration studies in Chile.
| Type: | Book |
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| Title: | Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Chile: The experience of Peruvian migrants |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800084629 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800084629 |
| Publisher version: | https:// doi.org/ 10.14324/ 111.978180 0084 629 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text © Author, 2023 Images © Author, 2023 is book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non- commercial Non- derivative 4.0 International licence (CC BY- NC- ND 4.0). This licence allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non- commercial use providing author and publisher attribution is clearly stated. Attribution should include the following information: Otaegui, A. 2023. Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Chile: The experience of Peruvian migrants. London: UCL Press. https:// doi.org/ 10.14324/ 111.978180 0084 629 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at http:// crea tive comm ons.org/ licen ses/ . Any third- party material in this book is published under the book’s Creative Commons licence unless indicated otherwise in the credit line to the material. If you would like to reuse any third- party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. |
| Keywords: | anthropology, technology, social media, smartphones, ageing |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10166808 |
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