Alfonso Otaegui Knihy

Focusing on the unique experiences of Peruvian migrants in Chile, this book explores how individuals around 60 navigate the challenges and benefits of smartphone technology in urban settings. It delves into the intersection of age, migration, and digital connectivity, highlighting the ways smartphones influence social interactions, access to information, and integration into Chilean society. Through personal narratives and research, it sheds light on the evolving relationship between older adults and technology in a contemporary urban context.

An anthropological account of the experience of aging among Peruvian immigrants to Chile in the smartphone era. What does it mean to be aging in Chile as a migrant? Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Chile analyzes the experience of aging for Peruvian migrants aged around sixty who have lived in Chile for more than twenty years. Their lives, we discover, are informed by a series of experiences of being 'in between'. They live between two countries, two generations, and two different stages in life, between giving care and not wanting care, and between a continuing legacy and not transmitting legacy. By focusing on the entanglement of aging, migration, and technology, this book is an ethnographic contribution to an unexplored subject in the vast literature on migration studies in Chile.