Which are the mobility and emplacement patterns of elderly members of the diasporas? How can we describe their modalities of access to formal and informal care? What kind of economic strategies of subsistence and accumulation (pensions, savings, work, investments, etc) they put in practise? How do kinship and social relations aim at sustaining transnational aging?

TAIA will investigate the migration and citizenship policies that facilitate and constrain the im/mobility of aging subjects as well as their access to welfare services in Italy, Tunisia and Senegal. An intersectional and transnational approach, able to show how gender, class, origin affect migratory trajectories of elderly members of the diasporas, will be a crucial theoretical and methodological cornerstone of the project. Comparisons between different case studies aims to show the multiplicity of life and im/mobility experiences in older age within diasporic communities, but also unexpected similarities between different diasporas and categories of migrants.

Finally, TAIA has the ambition to support national and international institutions in achieving the goals of a more inclusive society and improved wellbeing, also considering the challenges that a highly mobile, aging society is raising – and will increasingly raise in the near future. TAIA’s ethnographic and theoretical insights will foster public debate and help administrations and diasporic communities to design effective policies in terms of welfare systems and social and economic sustainability. Through collaborative and participatory approaches, TAIA will engage institutional and professional actors, migrant associations and different members of the diaspora, and other local stakeholders, in an effort to promote a perspective from below on transnational aging and its governance.