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Linked Lives : Elder Care, Migration, and Kinship in Sri Lanka / Michele Ruth Gamburd.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Global Perspectives on AgingPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (232 p.) : 12 b-w imagesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781978815346
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.26095493 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ1064.S72 G38 2020
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Chaos Flower -- 3 Weighing Financial Opportunities -- 4 Exchanging Assets for Care -- 5 A Youngest Son Called “Hope” -- 6 Health and Illness -- 7 Shelter or Shame? -- 8 Rebirth -- 9 On Beginnings and Endings -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary: When youth shake off their rural roots and middle-aged people migrate for economic opportunities, what happens to the grandparents left at home? Linked Lives provides readers with intimate glimpses into homes in a Sri Lankan Buddhist village, where elders wisely use their moral authority and their control over valuable property to assure that they receive both physical and spiritual care when they need it. The care work that grandparents do for grandchildren allows labor migration and contributes to the overall well-being of the extended family. The book considers the efforts migrant workers make to build and buy houses and the ways those rooms and walls constrain social activities. It outlines the strategies elders employ to age in place, and the alternatives they face in local old folks’ homes. Based on ethnographic work done over a decade, Michele Gamburd shows how elders face the challenges of a rapidly globalizing world.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Chaos Flower -- 3 Weighing Financial Opportunities -- 4 Exchanging Assets for Care -- 5 A Youngest Son Called “Hope” -- 6 Health and Illness -- 7 Shelter or Shame? -- 8 Rebirth -- 9 On Beginnings and Endings -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index

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When youth shake off their rural roots and middle-aged people migrate for economic opportunities, what happens to the grandparents left at home? Linked Lives provides readers with intimate glimpses into homes in a Sri Lankan Buddhist village, where elders wisely use their moral authority and their control over valuable property to assure that they receive both physical and spiritual care when they need it. The care work that grandparents do for grandchildren allows labor migration and contributes to the overall well-being of the extended family. The book considers the efforts migrant workers make to build and buy houses and the ways those rooms and walls constrain social activities. It outlines the strategies elders employ to age in place, and the alternatives they face in local old folks’ homes. Based on ethnographic work done over a decade, Michele Gamburd shows how elders face the challenges of a rapidly globalizing world.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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