Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Chile: The Experience of Peruvian Migrants

An anthropological account of the experience of aging among Peruvian migrants to Chile in the smartphone era.

What does it mean to be aging in Chile as a migrant? Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Chile analyzes the experience of aging for Peruvian migrants aged around sixty who have lived in Chile for more than twenty years. Their lives, we discover, are informed by a series of experiences of being 'in between'. They live between two countries, two generations, and two different stages in life, between giving care and not wanting care, and between a continuing legacy and not transmitting legacy. By focusing on the entanglement of aging, migration, and technology, this book is an ethnographic contribution to an unexplored subject in the vast literature on migration studies in Chile.


Author: Alfonso Otaegui
Publisher: UCL Press
Published: 06/05/2023
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.13h x 5.98w x 0.71d
ISBN13: 9781800084612
ISBN10: 1800084617
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies
- Social Science | Media Studies

About the Author
Alfonso Otaegui is assistant professor in the Anthropology Department of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.