Raelene Wilding
Biographic Data
| ID | 90437 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raelene Wilding |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raelene |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilding |
| SIGNATURE | WILDING R |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8599-5331 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 570 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Migrant access to emergency health care: The significance of emotions
Migrant utilisation of emergency services is typically framed as either premature or delayed, positioning temporal responsiveness as central to patient outcomes and system efficiency. While these studies acknowledge structural barriers, such as system navigation, affordability and access, they pay less attention to the role that emotional and cultural processes might play in shaping how migrants recognise, interpret, and act upon health crisis. B…
The presence and absence of gender and intersectionality in the 2023 NDIS review: A content analysis
While a world-leading initiative, Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) has received criticism for its design and implementation. In particular, gender inequality in access to supports and services remains a significant issue. Was the 2023 NDIS Review successful in addressing the persistent problem of gender inequality? To answer this question, this paper presents a content analysis of key documents produced through the 2023 NDI…
Linguistic diversity and emergency health alerts: A systematic critical review
Australia is a world leader in providing valuable resources that support multilingual access to healthcare services. However, the COVID‐19 pandemic revealed that these resources are not always effective in ensuring that linguistically diverse citizens have access to information in a crisis. In this paper, we consider whether authorities around the world have implemented effective approaches that might be adapted to enhance multilingual communicat…
Digital media, ageing and faith: Older Sri Lankan migrants in Australia and their digital articulations of transnational religion
To date, older adults have received little attention in the newly emerging technological narratives of transnational religion. This is surprising, given the strong association of later life with spiritual and religious engagement, but it likely reflects the ongoing assumption that older adults are technophobic or technologically incompetent. Drawing on ethnographic interviews with older Sinhalese Buddhist migrants from Sri Lanka, living in Melbou…
Care visits: Obligations, opportunities and constraints for Vietnamese grandparent visitors in Australia
In examining the ageing-migration nexus from a Global South perspective, this paper explores the obligations, opportunities and constraints of caregiving performed by Vietnamese grandparent visitors during their sojourns in Australia. Employing a grounded theory approach and care circulation framework, we investigate how grandparent visitors and adult migrant children experience and understand care and ageing in contexts of mobility, including an…
Lifecourse Transitions: How ICTS Support Older Migrants’ Adaptation to Transnational Lives
Lifecourse transitions from adulthood into older age are particularly complex for transnationalmigrants, bringing additional challenges and opportunities. Adding to the growing literature on ageing and migration, this article illustrates the ways ICTs facilitate the transnational lifecourse transitions of Vietnamese migrant grandparents in Australia through lifecourse digital learning. Research findings highlight the crucial role that digital cit…
Affect, Creativity and Migrant Belonging
Affect and creativity are proposed as offering an important lens for examining the politics of belonging in the everyday lives of migrants and refugees. Mobile emotions are circulated, intensified, and transformed in creative ways through digital media, demanding attention to new opportunities for challenging hierarchies, creating belonging, transforming gendered structures, and reinforcing the foundations of inequality and exclusion
Practices of 'Digital Homing' and Gendered Reproduction among Older Sinhalese and Karen Migrants in Australia
The pathway to aging well is not always clear for older migrants living in a foreign country, who must navigate a range of challenges resulting from differences between the cultural expectations of aging in their country of origin and the realities of aging in their country of residence. Transnational migration scholars indicate that digital media are important resources for maintaining relationships and support networks across ‘here’ and ‘there’…
Digital Anticipation: Facilitating the Pre-Emptive Futures of Chinese Grandparent Migrants in Australia
In this article, we contrast the digital kinning and digital homing practices of PRC Chinese transnational grandparents in Australia from two migration cohorts. Our case studies demonstrate that these digital practices form an integral part of the ability to anticipate aging futures. This "digital anticipation" not only helps to safeguard and affirm social and cultural identities that are often at risk as people age in migrant settings, but also …
Promoting healthy futures in a rural refugee resettlement location: A community-based participatory research intervention
The resettlement of refugees in rural areas is presenting new challenges for healthcare. This article reports on a community-based participatory research project that explored understandings of health and care across the life course in a refugee-background community in regional south-east Australia. Participants identified key challenges, including lack of access to local services that address their complex needs and problems created by communica…
The need for a 'migration turn' in aged care policy: A comparative study of Australian and German migration policies and their impact on migrant aged care
Despite their sociodemographic importance, investigations of the intersections of ageing and migration remain infrequent. We address this gap by analysing the policy approach to migrant aged care in two countries: Australia and Germany. Our comparative analysis highlights how national histories of migration and associated welfare regimes have given rise to different approaches to meeting the needs of older migrants. Germany has a prevalence of ma…
Migration, Aging, and Digital Kinning: The Role of Distant Care Support Networks in Experiences of Aging Well
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: High rates of migration contribute to the dispersal of support networks across distance. For older adults reliant on informal care, this creates a high risk of increased social isolation. In this article, we highlight the role of communication technologies in maintaining support networks and identities across distance. Building on transnational family research and on anthropological notions of "kinning," we propose that…
Digital media and the affective economies of transnational families
Digital media are widely recognised as essential to the maintenance of transnational families. To date, most accounts have focused on the role of digital media practices as producing and sustaining transnational relationships, through, for example, the practices of ‘digital kinning’. In this article, we extend that body of work by drawing attention to the specific role of the emotions that are circulated through digital media interactions and pra…
Introduction to the Special Issue: Transnational Family Care ‘On Hold’? Intergenerational Relationships and Obligations in the Context of Immobility Regimes
Brandhorst R, Baldassar L, Wilding R. Introduction to the Special Issue: “Transnational Family Care ‘On Hold’? Intergenerational Relationships and Obligations in the Context of Immobility Regimes”. Journal of Intergenerational Relationships . 2020;18(3):261-280
Mixed-Race Habits: Articulations of Female Asian-Australian Artists
Multicultural societies such as Australia are becoming more diverse, and understandings of mixed race descent experiences are urgently needed. In this paper, we contribute to such understandings by examining how mixed-race Asian-Australian women navigate the complexities of race through their cultural expressions and embodied experiences. Our discussion draws on ethnographic research, interviews and social media analysis conducted with Indonesian…
The Best Day of the Week: New Technology Enhancing Quality of Life in a Care Home
Older people living in residential aged care facilities tend to be physically as well as socially inactive, which leads to poorer health and reduced wellbeing. A lack of recognition of the importance of social support, limited resources, lack of training and task-oriented work routines leave little time for staff to meet the social needs of residents. Through qualitative ethnographic fieldwork, this study investigates the potential for new techno…
Families, Intimacy and Globalization
Digital health: Critical and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
"Digital health: critical and cross-disciplinary perspectives." Health Sociology Review, 27(3), pp. 331–332
Ageing, migration and new media: The significance of transnational care
The experiences of ageing for today's older people present a striking contrast to those of the past. They are entering older age in a world that is characterised by complex mobilities and flows, in which large numbers of people are ageing in countries other than the one in which they were born and often at a distance from their closest family members. At the same time, new media are providing unprecedented opportunities to bring distant places an…
Non-metropolitan productions of multiculturalism: Refugee settlement in rural Australia
In spite of the widespread backlash against multicultural policies, diversity remains a feature of globalized societies, requiring better understandings of how cultural difference is negotiated in rapidly transforming communities. Building on existing studies of multiculturalism in metropolitan contexts, we use interviews and ethnographic research to consider the transformation of a non-metropolitan community from a relatively homogeneous to an i…
Families, Intimacy and Globalization: Floating Ties
ICT-based co-presence in transnational families and communities: Challenging the Premise of Face-to-Face Proximity in Sustaining Relationships
Mediating the family imaginary: Young People Negotiating Absence in Transnational Refugee Families
Although transnational families regularly experience extended periods of physical separation and dispersal, the emergence of new media means that most are now practised at sustaining forms of ‘connected presence’ and ‘mediated co-presence’ across time and space. Thus, migration no longer disrupts all family networks, for many continue to function as sites of support across national borders. However, refugee transnational families are a clear exce…
New myths of OZ: The Australian beach and the negotiation of national belonging by refugee background youth
In this article, we consider the Australian beach as a material, imaginary and social arena in which different versions of national belonging are performed and contested. Focusing on two short films produced by young people from refugee backgrounds, we explore the negotiation of national belonging on the beach by people who occupy identity categories that are typically excluded from idealizing Australian beach mythologies. We argue that both the …
Digital Escapes? ICTs, Settlement and Belonging among Karen Youth in Melbourne, Australia
What does it mean to become 'at home' in a settlement context while at the same time remaining connected to global networks? And what does this tell us about how information and communication technologies (ICTs) are transforming the experiences and opportunities of young people in a settlement context? These are some of the key questions underpinning Home Lands, a digital media project that explored the proposition that, if resettled refugee youn…
Virtual' intimacies? Families communicating across transnational contexts
Many analyses of the uses of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) focus on factors such as gender, class and communication infrastructures in explaining how and whether people communicate across distance. In this article, I argue that such analyses fail to capture the full complexity of ICT use. I use the results of a large qualitative study of transnational families, conducted in Australia, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Iran, Singap…
ICT-based co-presence in transnational families and communities: Challenging the Premise of Face-to-Face Proximity in Sustaining Relationships
Digital media and the affective economies of transnational families
Digital media are widely recognised as essential to the maintenance of transnational families. To date, most accounts have focused on the role of digital media practices as producing and sustaining transnational relationships, through, for example, the practices of ‘digital kinning’. In this article, we extend that body of work by drawing attention to the specific role of the emotions that are circulated through digital media interactions and pra…
Non-metropolitan productions of multiculturalism: Refugee settlement in rural Australia
In spite of the widespread backlash against multicultural policies, diversity remains a feature of globalized societies, requiring better understandings of how cultural difference is negotiated in rapidly transforming communities. Building on existing studies of multiculturalism in metropolitan contexts, we use interviews and ethnographic research to consider the transformation of a non-metropolitan community from a relatively homogeneous to an i…
Digital Escapes? ICTs, Settlement and Belonging among Karen Youth in Melbourne, Australia
What does it mean to become 'at home' in a settlement context while at the same time remaining connected to global networks? And what does this tell us about how information and communication technologies (ICTs) are transforming the experiences and opportunities of young people in a settlement context? These are some of the key questions underpinning Home Lands, a digital media project that explored the proposition that, if resettled refugee youn…
Introduction to the Special Issue: Transnational Family Care ‘On Hold’? Intergenerational Relationships and Obligations in the Context of Immobility Regimes
Brandhorst R, Baldassar L, Wilding R. Introduction to the Special Issue: “Transnational Family Care ‘On Hold’? Intergenerational Relationships and Obligations in the Context of Immobility Regimes”. Journal of Intergenerational Relationships . 2020;18(3):261-280
Transnational Ethnographies and Anthropological Imaginings of Migrancy
Accounts of transnationalism are increasingly using ethnography to explore the nuanced details of everyday life in transnational contexts. An ethnographic focus arguably enables researchers to document the many ways in which migration, in association with processes of globalisation, transforms everyday life such that people might sustain connections across time and space in spite of their mobility. In this paper, I discuss some of the features of…
Mediating the family imaginary: Young People Negotiating Absence in Transnational Refugee Families
Although transnational families regularly experience extended periods of physical separation and dispersal, the emergence of new media means that most are now practised at sustaining forms of ‘connected presence’ and ‘mediated co-presence’ across time and space. Thus, migration no longer disrupts all family networks, for many continue to function as sites of support across national borders. However, refugee transnational families are a clear exce…
Transnational family-work balance: Experiences of Australian migrants caring for ageing parents and young children across distance and borders
How are work and family balanced across national borders and distances? Are there unique features to these transnational balancing acts, or are they simply the same stories being reproduced on a global scale? We use qualitative interview data from migrants who live with their dependent children in Australia, and who simultaneously care for their ageing parents in Italy and Ireland, to explore points of similarity and difference in the balance of …
Ageing, migration and new media: The significance of transnational care
The experiences of ageing for today's older people present a striking contrast to those of the past. They are entering older age in a world that is characterised by complex mobilities and flows, in which large numbers of people are ageing in countries other than the one in which they were born and often at a distance from their closest family members. At the same time, new media are providing unprecedented opportunities to bring distant places an…
The need for a 'migration turn' in aged care policy: A comparative study of Australian and German migration policies and their impact on migrant aged care
Despite their sociodemographic importance, investigations of the intersections of ageing and migration remain infrequent. We address this gap by analysing the policy approach to migrant aged care in two countries: Australia and Germany. Our comparative analysis highlights how national histories of migration and associated welfare regimes have given rise to different approaches to meeting the needs of older migrants. Germany has a prevalence of ma…
Digital Anticipation: Facilitating the Pre-Emptive Futures of Chinese Grandparent Migrants in Australia
In this article, we contrast the digital kinning and digital homing practices of PRC Chinese transnational grandparents in Australia from two migration cohorts. Our case studies demonstrate that these digital practices form an integral part of the ability to anticipate aging futures. This "digital anticipation" not only helps to safeguard and affirm social and cultural identities that are often at risk as people age in migrant settings, but also …
Mediating culture in transnational spaces: An example of young people from refugee backgrounds
Many young people with refugee backgrounds struggle to develop positive social and cultural identities in their new settlement locations and often experience disadvantage and marginalization. Yet, recent developments in low cost, accessible Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) potentially provide new opportunities for them to seek their sources of identity and identification elsewhere – through family, peer and cultural connections t…
Care visits: Obligations, opportunities and constraints for Vietnamese grandparent visitors in Australia
In examining the ageing-migration nexus from a Global South perspective, this paper explores the obligations, opportunities and constraints of caregiving performed by Vietnamese grandparent visitors during their sojourns in Australia. Employing a grounded theory approach and care circulation framework, we investigate how grandparent visitors and adult migrant children experience and understand care and ageing in contexts of mobility, including an…
Lifecourse Transitions: How ICTS Support Older Migrants’ Adaptation to Transnational Lives
Lifecourse transitions from adulthood into older age are particularly complex for transnationalmigrants, bringing additional challenges and opportunities. Adding to the growing literature on ageing and migration, this article illustrates the ways ICTs facilitate the transnational lifecourse transitions of Vietnamese migrant grandparents in Australia through lifecourse digital learning. Research findings highlight the crucial role that digital cit…
Digital media, ageing and faith: Older Sri Lankan migrants in Australia and their digital articulations of transnational religion
To date, older adults have received little attention in the newly emerging technological narratives of transnational religion. This is surprising, given the strong association of later life with spiritual and religious engagement, but it likely reflects the ongoing assumption that older adults are technophobic or technologically incompetent. Drawing on ethnographic interviews with older Sinhalese Buddhist migrants from Sri Lanka, living in Melbou…
Affect, Creativity and Migrant Belonging
Affect and creativity are proposed as offering an important lens for examining the politics of belonging in the everyday lives of migrants and refugees. Mobile emotions are circulated, intensified, and transformed in creative ways through digital media, demanding attention to new opportunities for challenging hierarchies, creating belonging, transforming gendered structures, and reinforcing the foundations of inequality and exclusion
Practices of 'Digital Homing' and Gendered Reproduction among Older Sinhalese and Karen Migrants in Australia
The pathway to aging well is not always clear for older migrants living in a foreign country, who must navigate a range of challenges resulting from differences between the cultural expectations of aging in their country of origin and the realities of aging in their country of residence. Transnational migration scholars indicate that digital media are important resources for maintaining relationships and support networks across ‘here’ and ‘there’…
Promoting healthy futures in a rural refugee resettlement location: A community-based participatory research intervention
The resettlement of refugees in rural areas is presenting new challenges for healthcare. This article reports on a community-based participatory research project that explored understandings of health and care across the life course in a refugee-background community in regional south-east Australia. Participants identified key challenges, including lack of access to local services that address their complex needs and problems created by communica…
New myths of OZ: The Australian beach and the negotiation of national belonging by refugee background youth
In this article, we consider the Australian beach as a material, imaginary and social arena in which different versions of national belonging are performed and contested. Focusing on two short films produced by young people from refugee backgrounds, we explore the negotiation of national belonging on the beach by people who occupy identity categories that are typically excluded from idealizing Australian beach mythologies. We argue that both the …
Linguistic diversity and emergency health alerts: A systematic critical review
Australia is a world leader in providing valuable resources that support multilingual access to healthcare services. However, the COVID‐19 pandemic revealed that these resources are not always effective in ensuring that linguistically diverse citizens have access to information in a crisis. In this paper, we consider whether authorities around the world have implemented effective approaches that might be adapted to enhance multilingual communicat…
Mixed-Race Habits: Articulations of Female Asian-Australian Artists
Multicultural societies such as Australia are becoming more diverse, and understandings of mixed race descent experiences are urgently needed. In this paper, we contribute to such understandings by examining how mixed-race Asian-Australian women navigate the complexities of race through their cultural expressions and embodied experiences. Our discussion draws on ethnographic research, interviews and social media analysis conducted with Indonesian…
Locating Editorials and Advertising in Wedding Magazines
Unlike other magazines, few people subscribe to wedding magazines and, as most are annual publications, their presence on the publishing landscape is relatively intermittent and unobtrusive. Nevertheless, these publications provide a rich context for examining intersections between advertisements and editorials. In this paper, I draw on ethnographic and textual analysis of wedding magazines produced in Australia. I argue that the distinction betw…
Romantic Love and 'Getting Married: Narratives of the Wedding in and Out of Cinema Texts
In theories of mass popular culture, there remains a continuing assumption that the dominant messages encoded in media texts impact upon and influence their audiences. Thus, the question that is usually posed is one regarding the extent to which audiences are aware of and able to resist such domination by media messages. In this article, I use a comparison of narratives of romantic love in cinema texts and in the conversations of people 'getting …
Romantic Love and 'Getting Married: Narratives of the Wedding in and Out of Cinema Texts
In theories of mass popular culture, there remains a continuing assumption that the dominant messages encoded in media texts impact upon and influence their audiences. Thus, the question that is usually posed is one regarding the extent to which audiences are aware of and able to resist such domination by media messages. In this article, I use a comparison of narratives of romantic love in cinema texts and in the conversations of people 'getting …
Locating Editorials and Advertising in Wedding Magazines
Unlike other magazines, few people subscribe to wedding magazines and, as most are annual publications, their presence on the publishing landscape is relatively intermittent and unobtrusive. Nevertheless, these publications provide a rich context for examining intersections between advertisements and editorials. In this paper, I draw on ethnographic and textual analysis of wedding magazines produced in Australia. I argue that the distinction betw…
Virtual' intimacies? Families communicating across transnational contexts
Many analyses of the uses of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) focus on factors such as gender, class and communication infrastructures in explaining how and whether people communicate across distance. In this article, I argue that such analyses fail to capture the full complexity of ICT use. I use the results of a large qualitative study of transnational families, conducted in Australia, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Iran, Singap…
Families Caring Across Borders: Migration, Ageing and Transnational Caregiving
This is an ethnographic account of the transnational caregiving experiences and practices of Australian migrants and refugees, caring for their elderly parents in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and New
Transnational Ethnographies and Anthropological Imaginings of Migrancy
Accounts of transnationalism are increasingly using ethnography to explore the nuanced details of everyday life in transnational contexts. An ethnographic focus arguably enables researchers to document the many ways in which migration, in association with processes of globalisation, transforms everyday life such that people might sustain connections across time and space in spite of their mobility. In this paper, I discuss some of the features of…
Introducing Anthropology: A Review Article
What is anthropology? by Thomas Hylland Eriksen. Pluto Press, London and Arbor, MI, 2004, 180pp., bibliography, index. ISBN: 0‐7453‐2319‐7 (paperback). Global structures, local cultures , by Mary H
Transnational family-work balance: Experiences of Australian migrants caring for ageing parents and young children across distance and borders
How are work and family balanced across national borders and distances? Are there unique features to these transnational balancing acts, or are they simply the same stories being reproduced on a global scale? We use qualitative interview data from migrants who live with their dependent children in Australia, and who simultaneously care for their ageing parents in Italy and Ireland, to explore points of similarity and difference in the balance of …
Mediating culture in transnational spaces: An example of young people from refugee backgrounds
Many young people with refugee backgrounds struggle to develop positive social and cultural identities in their new settlement locations and often experience disadvantage and marginalization. Yet, recent developments in low cost, accessible Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) potentially provide new opportunities for them to seek their sources of identity and identification elsewhere – through family, peer and cultural connections t…
Digital Escapes? ICTs, Settlement and Belonging among Karen Youth in Melbourne, Australia
What does it mean to become 'at home' in a settlement context while at the same time remaining connected to global networks? And what does this tell us about how information and communication technologies (ICTs) are transforming the experiences and opportunities of young people in a settlement context? These are some of the key questions underpinning Home Lands, a digital media project that explored the proposition that, if resettled refugee youn…
New myths of OZ: The Australian beach and the negotiation of national belonging by refugee background youth
In this article, we consider the Australian beach as a material, imaginary and social arena in which different versions of national belonging are performed and contested. Focusing on two short films produced by young people from refugee backgrounds, we explore the negotiation of national belonging on the beach by people who occupy identity categories that are typically excluded from idealizing Australian beach mythologies. We argue that both the …
ICT-based co-presence in transnational families and communities: Challenging the Premise of Face-to-Face Proximity in Sustaining Relationships
Mediating the family imaginary: Young People Negotiating Absence in Transnational Refugee Families
Although transnational families regularly experience extended periods of physical separation and dispersal, the emergence of new media means that most are now practised at sustaining forms of ‘connected presence’ and ‘mediated co-presence’ across time and space. Thus, migration no longer disrupts all family networks, for many continue to function as sites of support across national borders. However, refugee transnational families are a clear exce…
Families, Intimacy and Globalization: Floating Ties
Families, Intimacy and Globalization
Digital health: Critical and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
"Digital health: critical and cross-disciplinary perspectives." Health Sociology Review, 27(3), pp. 331–332
Ageing, migration and new media: The significance of transnational care
The experiences of ageing for today's older people present a striking contrast to those of the past. They are entering older age in a world that is characterised by complex mobilities and flows, in which large numbers of people are ageing in countries other than the one in which they were born and often at a distance from their closest family members. At the same time, new media are providing unprecedented opportunities to bring distant places an…
Non-metropolitan productions of multiculturalism: Refugee settlement in rural Australia
In spite of the widespread backlash against multicultural policies, diversity remains a feature of globalized societies, requiring better understandings of how cultural difference is negotiated in rapidly transforming communities. Building on existing studies of multiculturalism in metropolitan contexts, we use interviews and ethnographic research to consider the transformation of a non-metropolitan community from a relatively homogeneous to an i…
The Best Day of the Week: New Technology Enhancing Quality of Life in a Care Home
Older people living in residential aged care facilities tend to be physically as well as socially inactive, which leads to poorer health and reduced wellbeing. A lack of recognition of the importance of social support, limited resources, lack of training and task-oriented work routines leave little time for staff to meet the social needs of residents. Through qualitative ethnographic fieldwork, this study investigates the potential for new techno…
Migration, Aging, and Digital Kinning: The Role of Distant Care Support Networks in Experiences of Aging Well
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: High rates of migration contribute to the dispersal of support networks across distance. For older adults reliant on informal care, this creates a high risk of increased social isolation. In this article, we highlight the role of communication technologies in maintaining support networks and identities across distance. Building on transnational family research and on anthropological notions of "kinning," we propose that…
Digital media and the affective economies of transnational families
Digital media are widely recognised as essential to the maintenance of transnational families. To date, most accounts have focused on the role of digital media practices as producing and sustaining transnational relationships, through, for example, the practices of ‘digital kinning’. In this article, we extend that body of work by drawing attention to the specific role of the emotions that are circulated through digital media interactions and pra…
Introduction to the Special Issue: Transnational Family Care ‘On Hold’? Intergenerational Relationships and Obligations in the Context of Immobility Regimes
Brandhorst R, Baldassar L, Wilding R. Introduction to the Special Issue: “Transnational Family Care ‘On Hold’? Intergenerational Relationships and Obligations in the Context of Immobility Regimes”. Journal of Intergenerational Relationships . 2020;18(3):261-280
Mixed-Race Habits: Articulations of Female Asian-Australian Artists
Multicultural societies such as Australia are becoming more diverse, and understandings of mixed race descent experiences are urgently needed. In this paper, we contribute to such understandings by examining how mixed-race Asian-Australian women navigate the complexities of race through their cultural expressions and embodied experiences. Our discussion draws on ethnographic research, interviews and social media analysis conducted with Indonesian…
The need for a 'migration turn' in aged care policy: A comparative study of Australian and German migration policies and their impact on migrant aged care
Despite their sociodemographic importance, investigations of the intersections of ageing and migration remain infrequent. We address this gap by analysing the policy approach to migrant aged care in two countries: Australia and Germany. Our comparative analysis highlights how national histories of migration and associated welfare regimes have given rise to different approaches to meeting the needs of older migrants. Germany has a prevalence of ma…
Lifecourse Transitions: How ICTS Support Older Migrants’ Adaptation to Transnational Lives
Lifecourse transitions from adulthood into older age are particularly complex for transnationalmigrants, bringing additional challenges and opportunities. Adding to the growing literature on ageing and migration, this article illustrates the ways ICTs facilitate the transnational lifecourse transitions of Vietnamese migrant grandparents in Australia through lifecourse digital learning. Research findings highlight the crucial role that digital cit…
Affect, Creativity and Migrant Belonging
Affect and creativity are proposed as offering an important lens for examining the politics of belonging in the everyday lives of migrants and refugees. Mobile emotions are circulated, intensified, and transformed in creative ways through digital media, demanding attention to new opportunities for challenging hierarchies, creating belonging, transforming gendered structures, and reinforcing the foundations of inequality and exclusion
Sociology (26 works) · Political science (19 works) · Gender Studies (14 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (11 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Social science (8 works) · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (7 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (7 works)