Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work / Parin Dossa, Cati Coe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baldassar, Loretta.

Coe, Cati, editor.

Coe, Cati.

Deneva, Neda.

Dossa, Parin, editor.

Dossa, Parin.

Khan, Mushira Mohsin.

Kobayashi, Karen M.

Mullings, Delores V.

Raffety, Erin L.

Yarris, Kristin Elizabeth.

Zhou, Yanqiu Rachel.

Series:

Global perspectives on aging series.

Global Perspectives on Aging

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kinship.

Older immigrants.

Intergenerational relations.

Age and employment.

Older people--Employment.

Older people.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work documents the social and material contributions of older persons to their families in settings shaped by migration, their everyday lives in domestic and community spaces, and in the context of intergenerational relationships and diasporas. Much of this work is oriented toward supporting, connecting, and maintaining kin members and kin relationships-the work that enables a family to reproduce and regenerate itself across generations and across the globe.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Introduction: Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work / Dossa, Parin / Coe, Cati

PART ONE. The Kin-scription of Older People into Care

1. Flexible Kin Work, Flexible Migration: Aging Migrants Caught between Productive and Reproductive Labor in the European Union / Deneva, Neda

2. The New Aging Trajectories of Chinese Grandparents in Canada / Zhou, Yanqiu Rachel

3. Sacrifice or Abandonment? Nicaraguan Grandmothers' Narratives of Migration as Kin Work / Yarris, Kristin Elizabeth

PART TWO. Reconfigurations of Kinship and Care in Migration Contexts

4. Fostering Change: Elderly Foster Mothers' Intergenerational Influence in Contemporary China / Raffety, Erin L.

5. Negotiating Sacred Values: Dharma, Karma, and Migrant Hindu Women / Khan, Mushira Mohsin / Kobayashi, Karen

6. Transformations in Transnational Aging: A Century of Caring among Italians in Australia / Baldassar, Loretta

PART THREE. Aging, Kin Work, and Migrant Trajectories

7. Returning Home: The Retirement Strategies of Aging Ghanaian Care Workers / Coe, Cati

8. Balancing the Weight of Nations and Families Transnationally: The Case of Older Caribbean Canadian Women / Mullings, Delores V.

9. The Recognition and Denial of Kin Work in Palliative Care: Epitomizing Narratives of Canadian Ismaili Muslims / Dossa, Parin

Acknowledgments

References

About the Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

0-8135-8809-X

0-8135-8810-3

OCLC:

976435127