Care across Distance : : Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration /

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

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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
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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.)
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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

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