Abstract

This book studies the experience of ageing for Peruvian migrants aged around 60, who have been living in Chile for the last twenty or thirty years. It is made clear, throughout the book, that the life of these Peruvian middle-aged adults in Santiago is informed by a series of experiences of being in-between. These experiences of being in-between are diverse and not directly comparable to one another. Some of these experiences of being in-between refer to ageing and the passage of time, as well as the fact that these Peruvians are finding themselves between two stages of life (and of age): on the one hand, the youth that they attempt to retain and, on the other, the early frailty of old age, which they try to hide even from themselves. Other experiences of being in-between are of a more abstract and conceptual nature, such as the fact that they find themselves halfway between two generations: the one of their Peruvian parents and that of their Chilean children.