Care across Distance : : Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration / / ed. by Monika Palmberger, Azra Hromadžić.

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 spi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations ; 4
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
CONTENTS --
List of Illustrations --
Acknowledgments --
Introduction: Care across Distance --
PART I. Materialities and Technologies of Care across Distance --
1. Recalibrating Care: Newly Resettled Nepali-Bhutanese Refugees in Upstate New York --
2. Healthy Aging, Middle-Classness, and Transnational Care between Tanzania and the United States --
PART II. Spirituality and Intergenerational Care across Distance --
3. Intergenerational Relationships and Emergent Notions of Reciprocity, Dependency, Caregiving, and Aging in Tuareg Migration --
4. “Old People’s Homes,” Filial Piety, and Transnational Families: Change and Continuity in Elderly Care in the Tibetan Settlements in India --
PART III. Communities of Care across Distance --
5. Social Embeddedness and Care among Turkish Labor Migrants in Vienna: The Role of Migrant Associations --
6. Migrants of Privilege: American Retirees and the Imaginaries of Ecuadorian Care Work --
Part IV. Failures of Care across Distance --
7. Some Limits of Caring at a Distance: Aging and Transnational Care Arrangements between Suriname and the Netherlands --
8. “Where Were They Until Now?” Aging, Care, and Abandonment in a Bosnian Town --
Epilogue: Reflections on Care and Virtue --
Index
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.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781785338014
9783110998115
DOI:10.1515/9781785338014?locatt=mode:legacy
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Monika Palmberger, Azra Hromadžić.