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Forty years in Aotearoa, New Zealand
— white identity, home and later life in an adopted country | | Author(s) | Molly George, Ruth P Fitzgerald |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 32, part 2, February 2012 |
| Pages | pp 239-260 |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org/aso |
| Keywords | Immigrants [elderly] ; Immigration ; White people ; Ageing process ; Adjustment ; Attitude ; New Zealand. |
| Annotation | The study looked at some of the memories, hopes and strategies of 22 older migrants who were ageing in their adopted country of New Zealand. Having arrived as young adults in the 20 years after World War II, most of the immigrants had lived on 'foreign' soil for twice as long as their brief sojourns of childhood and early adulthood in their country of origin. Arriving from a variety of backgrounds in 12 different countries, they could all be considered `white' immigrants in relation to New Zealand's indigenous Maori population and other non-European immigrant groups. Their lives encompassed the experience of globalisation and transnationalism in communication technologies and inter-country migration. As they recounted the meaning of living through these changes, these older people discussed the delicacies of assimilation in post-World War II New Zealand and the interplay between the daily life of New Zealand as 'home' and the homeland as Heimat. Their stories argued against the assumption that decades of residence, particularly for white immigrants in a white-majority nation, implied an 'assimilation' of cultural identity. Instead, the stories evoked recognition of the negotiation of gain and loss which continued as they, and their contexts, changed over time. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-120402004 A |
| Classmark | F:TJ: TNP: TKA: BG: DR: DP: 7YN |
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