Ageing and intergenerational relations : : Family reciprocity from a global perspective /

Ageing and intergenerational relations : : Family reciprocity from a global perspective / / ed. by Misa Izuhara.

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With socio-economic and demographic changes taking place in contemporary societies, new patterns of family relations are forming partly due to significant family changes, value shifts, precariousness in the labour market, and increasing mobility within and beyond national boundaries.  This book expl...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
MitwirkendeR:
Coleman, Marilyn,
Engelmajer, Pascale F.,
Ganong, Lawrence H.,
Izuhara, Misa,
Joseph, Ricky,
Katz, Ruth,
Lowenstein, Ariela,
Oduaran, Akpovire,
Oduaran, Choja,
Phillips, Judith,
Phillipson, Chris,
HerausgeberIn:
Izuhara, Misa,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Ageing and the Lifecourse
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Physical Description:1 online resource (176 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of tables and figures
  • Notes on contributors
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Globalisation, global ageing and intergenerational change
  • Theoretical perspectives on intergenerational solidarity, conflict and ambivalence
  • Globalised transmissions of housing wealth and return migration
  • Housing wealth and family reciprocity in East Asia
  • Grandparents and HIV and AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Spiritual debts and gendered costs
  • Reciprocity in intergenerational relationships in stepfamilies
  • New patterns of family reciprocity? Policy challenges in ageing societies
  • Index

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