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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations ; 4Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (192 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781785338007
  • 9781785338014
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.26 23/eng/20231120
LOC classification:
  • HQ1061
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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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
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.

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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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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