TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gamburd,Michele Ruth
TI  - Linked Lives: Elder Care, Migration, and Kinship in Sri Lanka 
T2  - Global Perspectives on Aging
SN  - 9781978815346
AV  - HQ1064.S72 G38 2020
U1  - 305.26095493 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ : 
PB  - Rutgers University Press, 
KW  - Grandparent and child
KW  - Sri Lanka
KW  - Grandparents
KW  - Family relationships
KW  - Kinship care
KW  - Migrant labor
KW  - Older people
KW  - Care
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Buddhism
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Elders care, Migration, kinship, Sri Lanka, Global Perspectives, Rural, Middle-aged, Economy, Grandparents, Buddhism, Elders, Homes, Spiritual Care, Healthcare, Globalization, Youth, Experiences, Life, Ethnography
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9781978815346
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781978815346
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781978815346/original
ER  -