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Bandana Purkayastha is professor of sociology and Asian American studies at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of several books, former deputy editor of Gender & Society, and president-elect of Sociologists for Women in Society. Shweta Majumdar Adur is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of Connecticut. She holds a Masters in international development from the University of Pittsburgh and a graduate certificate in Asian studies and a masters in sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Miho Iwata is an advanced graduate student in sociology at the University of Connecticut with a graduate certificate in women’s studies. Ranita Ray is an advanced graduate student in sociology at the University of Connecticut.Trisha Tiamzon is earning her Ph.D. in sociology and a certificate in women’s studies at the University of Connecticut.
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Whose Lives? Whose Voices? Methodological Choices for Studying Asian Americans and Aging
Chapter 3: The Life Course Within and Beyond Families
Chapter 4: Care Work Within and Beyond Families
Chapter 5: Constructing New Lives
Chapter 6: Citizenship and Aging
Chapter 7: Conclusion
Notes
References
About the Authors
As the Leaves Turn Gold offers a nuanced, fine-grained and engrossing analysis of Asian American experiences of aging. This is an important volume that provides many critical insights into the dynamics of aging, immigration, and social inequality.
— Nazli Kibria, Boston University
A very timely book! Drawing upon an intersectional analysis and cumulative disadvantage over the life course, the authors of this volume provide important sociological insights on the complexity of Asian American experiences of aging. Anchor stories, interviews and translated accounts combined with careful analysis lend to a nuanced and truly deep understanding of the economic, political, social, and cultural factors that shape contemporary aging experience of Asian Americans.
— Margaret Abraham, Hofstra University
This path breaking research examines and documents the issues aging Asian Americans across cultures face in the contemporary globalizing context of U.S. society. It provides much needed analysis regarding shifting notions of 'family' and 'care' traversing multiple generations, and compels us to pay close attention to how elderly immigrant populations negotiate access and citizenship, and reconfigure kin and social networks. An outstanding contribution to the fields of Asian American, and American studies!
— Elora Halim Chowdhury, University of Massachusetts Boston
This powerful and empirically rich study of aging in the Asian American context breaks new ground in a neglected domain of research. It's most valuable contribution is the integration of intersectional and transnational frameworks to provide a contextualized, historically grounded, and comprehensive analysis of Asian American experiences of aging.
— Anjana Narayan, California State Polytechnic University
Purkayastha and her coauthors turn much-needed attention to the United States' growing population of elderly Asian Americans. In this book, they give voice to the diversity of this group of people, exploring how ethnic background, class, gender, migration status, and other factors affect the experiences, perspectives and needs of its various members. In doing so, they shed light on stories that are both uniquely Asian and quintessentially American.
— Khyati Joshi, Fairleigh Dickinson University