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Intimacy in a Transnational Era: The Remaking of Aging among Indian Americans

2002; Oxford University Press; Volume: 11; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3138/diaspora.11.3.299

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Sarah Lamb,

Migration and Labor Dynamics

Soon after I returned from India, where I had been studying aging among Bengalis,2 I met an older man from Gujarat. He lived with his wife in his daughter’s spacious Palo Alto home, having come to America after retiring as a minor railroad official to be with his US-settled children in his old age. “You are interested in Indian aging?” he inquired eagerly when I met him at an “Indo-American seniors” meeting. “Well, you must visit me.” He had spent much of the past few years reflecting on “Indian” versus “American” modes of aging.