This chapter contributes to this handbook a review of the development and critiques of the life course perspective in social gerontology and outlines its relevance for research on migration and ageing.  In particular, the life course perspective’s conceptual principles of transition, trajectory, turning points and timing connecting individual to social structure are explained and related to migration issues of ageism in policy, intersectionality, inter- and hybrid experiences, and agency and resourcefulness. Overall, life course research is critical to the field of migration and ageing in order to produce a fuller sense of how human stories are situated in time and how their varying pathways shape people’s lives around the world.