[Commlist] New open access book: Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Chile (UCL Press)

UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access 
book that may be of interest to list subscribers: Ageing with 
Smartphones in Urban Chile: The experience of Peruvian migrants by 
Alfonso Otaegui. Download it free: https://bit.ly/3msLLHR

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Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Chile

The experience of Peruvian migrants

Alfonso Otaegui
Free download: https://bit.ly/3msLLHR


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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 life is 
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).

The Peruvian population has been one of the most studied in Chile with a 
wide variety of themes, from the insertion of migrants into the labour 
market to the spreading of Peruvian restaurants and also discrimination 
suffered by migrant children at schools, among many others. However, 
neither the experience of ageing of migrants in Chile nor the experience 
of late middle age has not been fully addressed. 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.

Free download: https://bit.ly/3msLLHR
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