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Care across distance : ethnographic explorations of aging and migration / edited by Azra Hromadžić and Monika Palmberger.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Life course, culture and aging ; v. 4.
- Life course: culture and aging: global transformations ; volume 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Immigrant families.
- Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- Aging--Social aspects.
- Older people--Care.
- Social aspects.
- Older people--Social conditions.
- Older people--Social conditions--Case studies.
- Older people--Care--Social aspects--Case studies.
- Aging--Social aspects--Case studies.
- Emigration and immigration--Social aspects--Case studies.
- Immigrant families--Case studies.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 183 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn, 2018.
- Summary:
- World-wide migration has an unsettling effect on social structures, especially on aging populations and eldercare. This volume investigates how taken-for-granted roles are challenged, intergenerational relationships transformed, economic ties recalibrated, technological innovations utilized, and spiritual relations pursued and desired, and asks what it means to care at a distance and to age abroad. What it does show is that trans-nationalization of care produces unprecedented convergences of people, objects and spaces that challenge our assumptions about the who, how, and where of care.
- Contents:
- Introduction : care across distance / Monika Palmberger and Azra Hromadzic
- Recalibrating care : newly resettled Nepali-Bhutanese refugees in Upstate New York / Retika Desai
- Healthy aging, middle-classiness, and transnational care between Tanzania and the United States / Andrea Patricia Kaiser-Grolimund
- Intergenerational relationships and emergent notions of reciprocity, dependency : caregiving, and aging in Tuareg migration / Susan Rasmussen
- "Old people's homes", filial piety, and transnational families : change and continuity in elderly care in the Tibetan settlements in India / Namgyal Choedup
- Social embeddedness and care among Turkish labor migrants in Vienna : the role of migrant associations / Monika Palmberger
- Migrants of privilege : American retirees and the imaginaries of Ecuadorian care work / Ann Miles
- Some limits of caring at a distance : aging and transnational care arrangements between Suriname and the Netherlands / Yvon Van der Pijl
- "Where were they until now?" : aging, care and abandonment in a Bosnian town / Azra Hromadzic
- Epilogue / Sarah Lamb.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Care across distance.
- ISBN:
- 9781785338007
- 1785338005
- OCLC:
- 1007056859
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