Transnational Ageing in Australia. Implications of the transnationalisation of social life worlds for the concept of ageing in place and for social and health policies in a society of immigration.

在奖学金的范围内，我的目标是研究澳大利亚的跨国、虚拟的老年移民支持网络。该项目将社会工作、护理和老年学的研究与移徙研究和跨民族范式联系起来。它的目的是将跨民族主义范式应用于就地老龄化这一概念，并确定其对移民社会的社会和保健政策以及老年护理的影响。该项目基于对人种学研究的重建分析和对老年移民的传记访谈，审查了跨国护理战略以及现有的远程和虚拟老龄支助网络的作用。我计划总共调查16名老年移民及其地理上近处和远方的支持网络。抽样是基于澳大利亚人口老龄化最大的移民群体：英国、意大利、越南和中国。之所以选择澳大利亚作为研究背景，是因为它与德国有相似之处，因为它的移民不断增加，人口老龄化迅速。然而，澳大利亚在外国出生的老年人比例高于德国。此外，信息和通信技术在老年人中的使用也在进一步普及。因此，澳大利亚显示出一种发展，这将在几年后与德国目前不断上升的移民范围相关。因此，对澳大利亚老年人的社会和养老政策的分析以及对信息和通信技术的使用可以对德国的移民政策和养老4.0起到重要的推动作用。同时，本研究也为跨地区老龄化研究提供了理论依据。

In the scope of the scholarship I aim to examine transnational, virtual support networks of older migrants in Australia. The project links studies on social work, nursing and gerontology with migration studies and the transnationalism paradigm. It aims at applying the transnationalism paradigm for the notion ageing in place and identifying the implications for social- and health care policies and age care in a society of immigration. The project examines transnational care strategies and the role of distant and virtual support networks on ageing in place, based on the reconstructive analysis of ethnographic research and of biographical-narrative interviews with older migrants. In total I plan to investigate 16 older migrants and their geographically close and distant support networks. The sampling is based on the biggest migration-groupings with older population in Australia: England, Italy, Vietnam and China. The research context Australia is chosen because of its similarities with Germany due to the increasing immigration and rapid population ageing. However, the percentage of foreign-born older people is higher in Australia than in Germany. Also the use of ICTs among older people is further spread. Thus, Australia shows a development, which will be relevant in Germany in the scope of the current rising immigration in a few years. The analysis of social and age-care policies and the use of ICTs of older people in Australia can thus give important impulses for migration policies and age care 4.0 in Germany. Simultaneously, the study promises theoretic results about the research on ageing in a transantional place.