Erschienen in:
28.10.2017 | Editorial
Transnational aging: toward a transnational perspective in old age research
verfasst von:
Vincent Horn, Cornelia Schweppe
Erschienen in:
European Journal of Ageing
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Ausgabe 4/2017
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Excerpt
Innovations in transportation and communication technologies have led to an increasingly globalized and interconnected world. The resulting compression of time and space has not only changed the world economy, but it has also had a profound impact on people’s everyday social life. People are now able to stay in real-time virtual contact with globally dispersed others, share images with a few clicks, obtain information instantaneously, etc. At the same time, travel infrastructures improved and airline tickets became affordable for a wider population. Consequently, back-and-forth movements between different countries are no longer reserved for a small elite. For the first time in history, people are able to be socially present in different locations, more or less simultaneously. Migration scholars introduced the transnational perspective to describe and conceptualize the various relations (e.g., social, economic, political) individuals and communities develop and sustain across geographical distances and national borders (Faist
2000; Glick Schiller et al.
1992). Soon the use of this concept spilled over to other social science disciplines, contributing to the emergence of a new multidisciplinary field of transnational studies (Khagram and Levitt
2008). …