AWARDS & PRAISE
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PRAISEAs 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 Email: ranitaray@unm.edu Twitter: @ranitaray1 |