Care across distance : : ethnographic explorations of aging and migration / / edited by Azra Hromadzic and Monika Palmberger.

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Superior document:Life course, culture and aging. ; volume 4
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Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books,, 2018.
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Life course, culture and aging.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (191 pages).
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Table of 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.