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How Age and Life Stage of Relocation Fosters Social Belonging: Comparing Two Groups of Older Migrants in the United States by Sun, Ken Chih-Yan, Newendorp, Nicole

“…The presumed "ossification effect" of the past on older generations remains influential in the scholarship on aging and migration, orienting scholars to…”
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Intimacies Compared: The Emotional Responses of Family Caregivers to Internal and International Migration by Chih-Yan Sun, Ken, Cao, Xuemei

“…This article takes a relational approach to studying the effects of internal and international migration on family intimacies. Drawing on interviews with adult…”
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How families affect aspirational migration amidst political insecurity: The case of Hong Kong by Lui, Lake, Sun, Ken Chih‐Yan, Hsiao, Yuan

“…The migration literature has examined migrants' political motivations separately from their family's mobility strategies in the face of macro‐political…”
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“Who Should Care for Our Parents?” How the Perceived Achievement Hierarchy Complicates Transnational Family Relations in China? by Sun, Ken Chih-Yan, Su, Baiyu

“…This article offers the concept of an “achievement hierarchy”—the symbolic meanings that families attach to siblings’ ability to convert education into…”
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The Micro-politics of Recognition and Care: How Adult Children in Urban China Negotiate Relationships with Emigrant Siblings by Sun, Ken Chih-Yan, Kibria, Nazli

“…This article offers the concept of “economies of recognition” to analyze the moral frames that siblings caring for left-behind parents in China use to…”
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Reconfigured Reciprocity: How Aging Taiwanese Immigrants Transform Cultural Logics of Elder Care by Sun, Ken Chih-Yan

“…Drawing on 55 interviews with older Taiwanese immigrants who relocated to the United States at an earlier life stage, the author argues that changing…”
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Extending surfactant-modified 2:1 clay minerals for the uptake and removal of diclofenac from water by Sun, Ken, Shi, Yan, Chen, Honghan, Wang, Xiaoyu, Li, Zhaohui

“…•Illite and montmorillonite modified by a cationic surfactant.•Modification resulted in significant uptake of diclofenac (DC) upto 1mmol/g.•Specific surface…”
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Fashioning the Reciprocal Norms of Elder Care: A Case of Immigrants in the United States and Their Parents in Taiwan by Sun, Ken C.

“…In this study, the author uses the changing practice of geriatric care within transnational Taiwanese families as a case to examine the processes through which…”
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Digital Strategies for Building Spiritual Intimacy: Families on a “Wired” Camino by Jenkins, Kathleen, Sun, Ken Chih-Yan

“…Researchers have explored the role that information and communication technologies (ICTs) play in mediating both religious practice and intergenerational…”
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Professional remittances: how ageing returnees seek to contribute to the homeland by Sun, Ken Chih-Yan

“…This article uses ageing Taiwanese returnees to illustrate how older migrants draw on their accumulated knowledge, experiences, and networks in their host…”
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Transnational healthcare seeking: how ageing Taiwanese return migrants view homeland public benefits by SUN, KEN CHIH-YAN

“…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…”
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Negotiating the boundaries of social membership: The case of aging return migrants to Taiwan by Sun, Ken Chih-Yan

“…This article focuses on the experiences of aging returnees who have moved back to Taiwan after retiring in the United States to illustrate how older return…”
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Negotiating transnational ambivalence: how ageing parents grapple with family separation across time by Sun, Ken Chih-Yan

“…This article uses older parents of parachute kids as an example to explore the ways in which the heads of transnational households assess intergenerational…”
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Transnational Kinscription: A Case of Parachute Kids in the USA and Their Parents in Taiwan by Sun, Ken Chih-Yan

“…This study uses 'parachute kids' in the USA and their parents in Taiwan as a case study to examine how cross-border kinship networks shape child-rearing…”
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Privileged American Families and Independent Academic Consultants They Employ by Smith, Jill M., Sun, Ken Chih-Yan

“…This article focuses on how economically advantaged families hire independent educational consultants (IECs) to help them navigate the college application…”
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Immigrants as settler colonists: boundary work between Dakota Indians and white immigrant settlers by Hansen, Karen V., Sun, Ken Chih-Yan, Osnowitz, Debra

“…With territorial expansion of the US came dispossession of Native Americans, supported by policies that made white immigrants settler colonists. On Indian…”
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Parenting, Uncertainty, and Expert Advice: How Privileged American Families Work with Private Counselors in Their Children’s College Race by Sun, Ken Chih-Yan, Smith, Jill M.

“…This article uses privileged families who hire Independent Educational Consultants (IECs) as an instance to examine how privileged parents collaborate with…”
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Overwriting the Memory of a Modern Ruin in Chile: From UNCTAD III to GAM by Sun, Ken Qiu

“…Located in central Santiago, the Gabriela Mistral Cultural Centre (GAM) is in fact the latest renovation of a building that embodies several historical shifts…”
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Preparation of diphenylcarbazide-directed CdSe quantum dots and selective determination for Cr(VI) by Shi, Yan, Sun, Ken

“…CdSe quantum dots (QDs) were synthesized using diphenylcarbazide (DL) to sequester QDs precursors (Cd 2+ ) in situ . Fluorescence (FL) analysis showed the…”
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Rethinking Migrant Families from a Transnational Perspective: Experiences of Parents and Their Children by Sun, Ken C.

“…This article provides an overview of existing studies which take a transnational approach to examining the experiences of migrant parents and their children…”
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