Chinese Migrants Ageing in a Foreign Land

<p>This book advances a new understanding of acculturation processes for older migrants drawing on empirical data from migrants of Chinese heritage in Australia. It challenges the traditional models of acculturation questions the conventional notion of integration and analyses the fluid nature of cultural identities. Drawing on insights from environmental gerontology intercultural communication and acculturation theories it conceptualises ageing in a foreign land as a home-building process highlighting the collective contributions of individual community social cultural technological and environmental factors to older migrants’ well-being. A consideration of what it means to age ‘in place’ for those whose home is not necessarily attached to one place and one culture this volume will appeal to social scientists with interests in ageing gerontology migration and diaspora as well as those working in the fields of aged care policy.</p>