The rapid aging of the immigrant population in the United States has drawn increasing scholarly attention to studying the kinship support networks of older immigrants. Despite the common stereotype of older immigrants as passive dependents of their families and the receiving society, this review highlights their active negotiations of ties to adult children as they manage family relations and secure old-age support. After a brief description of the demographic profiles of the older immigrant population in contemporary United States, this article shows how international migration challenges the patterns and power dynamics of two major aspects of intergenerational relationships in adulthood—intergenerational exchanges and intergenerational conflicts. By presenting the diversity and variations of intergenerational relations in aging immigrant families, the author argues that research on older immigrants' family relations holds great potentials to contribute to the literature on immigration, family, and aging studies.

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美国老年移民的代际关系

美国移民人口的快速老龄化已经引起越来越多的学术关注，研究老年移民的亲属支持网络。尽管普遍认为老年移民是家庭和接收社会的被动受抚养人，但这篇评论强调了他们在管理家庭关系和确保老年支持时积极协商与成年子女的关系。在简要描述了当代美国老年移民人口的人口特征之后，本文展示了国际移民如何挑战成年期代际关系的两个主要方面——代际交流和代际冲突的模式和权力动态。