Midlife mobilities

As the ‘sandwich’ generation, people in midlife carry a heavy weight of working and caring, and their mobilities are fundamentally gendered. Nevertheless, mobilities of these crucial and shifting middle-aged cohorts have been studied sporadically in dual scholarship of gender and mobilities. Therefore, the chapter will pivot to a systematic analysis of what has been studied so far, albeit hidden underneath other research focuses on care and family mobilities across the global South and North. This chapter argues that midlife (im)mobilities today must be viewed through the horizons of the uneven neoliberal shift. Midlife mobilities serve as a lens through which we can expose the workings and challenges of everyday mundane (im)mobilities for work and care, and fundamental changes in what international and transnational mobilities in midlife entail in the contexts of racialised capitalism, intergenerational relations and inclusion and exclusion in national welfare states.