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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Choedup, Namgyal,; Desai, Retika,; Hromadžic, Azra,; Kaiser-Grolimund, Andrea Patricia,; Lamb, Sarah,; Miles, Ann,; Palmberger, Monika,; Pijl, Yvon van der,; Rasmussen, Susan,
• HerausgeberIn: Hromadžić, Azra,; Palmberger, Monika,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

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