FINAL CFP AAG 2024: Ageing, social networks and care (extended deadline 13 Nov 2023)
Ageing, social networks and care: Bridging the chasm between non-migrant and migrant adults
American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, Honolulu
16-20 April 2024
Organisers: Elaine Ho and Feng Chen-Chieh (Department of Geography, National University of Singapore)
***We have space for ONE more paper in our session***
A growing body of scholarship on landscapes of care has strongly influenced the way that geographers and other social scientists carry out research on ageing and care. Nonetheless, research on local and global care still tends to be treated as separate domains of knowledge, and policy design across various domains persists in treating non-migrant (i.e. citizens) and migrant older adults as distinct sub-populations with differentiated rights and privileges in a country. For example, a body of work on ageing has focused on older adults’ experiences of ageing in place, while another body of work has concentrated on experiences of ageing across borders (e.g. retirement migration and grandparenting migration).
Studying ageing with an expanded conceptualisation of how older adults’ social networks for support and care are anchored—not only in proximate places, but also extend across extra-local spaces and/or spanning borders (i.e. transnational)—expands our analytical lens to consider a range of mobilities and care exchanges observable beyond the influential paradigm of ageing in place which encourages ageing within the home and community. Such an approach—decentring ageing in place while acknowledging its continued importance—is critical for capturing the social networks, support and care that older adults value outside of the neighbourhoods and communities where they reside, or the life-course changes that they experience when the neighbourhoods they live in undergo gentrification or if they are compelled to relocate locally or internationally because of rising costs of living. Other older adults may opt to relocate voluntarily to downsize an existing home and convert asset-based wealth into disposable retirement or to experience a new way of life and build new social networks that support ageing in place elsewhere.
This session calls for papers that study ageing in the context of local, extra-local and/or transnational mobilities and care exchanges. Such papers could consider the salience of ageing in place, but we would also encourage contributors to extend their analytical lens beyond the home, neighbourhood and proximate community to consider a wider range of social connections and geographies through which older adults realise their aspirations to age well. We welcome research evidence-based papers using a range of methodologies, including GIS approaches.
Please submit your abstract (250 words max) to Elaine Ho ([log in to unmask]) by 13 November 2023 with a short bio (150 words max).
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