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
Dumitrița Luncă
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