Diverse Transnational Care : Ageing and Migration in Bolivia / Tanja Bastia, Claudia Calsina.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bastia, Tanja, author.

Calsina, Claudia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Population aging.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 pages)

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2025.

Summary:

Transnational care practices differ and are not available to everyone in equal measure. The book draws on interviews with migrants' parents, carried out in five different regions in Bolivia. It considers the conditions that older people navigate in one of the poorest countries in Latin America and analyses the diverse transnational care practices that migrants and their parents engage in, including financial and material conditions, remittances, health, care, communication and wellbeing. The findings highlight how socio-economic differences, migration regimes, provision of health and social services mediate transnational care practices. The authors argue that socio-economic differences matter in the ways in which transnational care is practised. In this book they show how some parents can capitalise and further secure their position through their children's migrations, while others experience extreme levels of vulnerability.

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ISBN:

9781447365204