Transnational healthcare seeking : how ageing Taiwanese return migrants view homeland public benefits

• Main Author: Sun, Ken Chih-Yan
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Social problems and reform
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/107169; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/25425; http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/glob.12050
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this article, I argue that, by offering ageing return migrants new opportunities both to organize their lives and to rethink their social attachments, the extension of public healthcare in Taiwan constitutes a new contextual feature of the transnational social field bridging Taiwan and the USA. I...