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Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work / Parin Dossa, Cati Coe.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Global Perspectives on AgingPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (242 p.) : 4 tablesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813588087
  • 9780813588100
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.398
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work -- PART ONE. The Kin-scription of Older People into Care -- 1. Flexible Kin Work, Flexible Migration: Aging Migrants Caught between Productive and Reproductive Labor in the European Union -- 2. The New Aging Trajectories of Chinese Grandparents in Canada -- 3. Sacrifice or Abandonment? Nicaraguan Grandmothers' Narratives of Migration as Kin Work -- PART TWO. Reconfigurations of Kinship and Care in Migration Contexts -- 4. Fostering Change: Elderly Foster Mothers' Intergenerational Influence in Contemporary China -- 5. Negotiating Sacred Values: Dharma, Karma, and Migrant Hindu Women -- 6. Transformations in Transnational Aging: A Century of Caring among Italians in Australia -- PART THREE. Aging, Kin Work, and Migrant Trajectories -- 7. Returning Home: The Retirement Strategies of Aging Ghanaian Care Workers -- 8. Balancing the Weight of Nations and Families Transnationally: The Case of Older Caribbean Canadian Women -- 9. The Recognition and Denial of Kin Work in Palliative Care: Epitomizing Narratives of Canadian Ismaili Muslims -- Acknowledgments -- References -- About the Contributors -- Index
Summary: Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work documents the social and material contributions of older persons to their families in settings shaped by migration, their everyday lives in domestic and community spaces, and in the context of intergenerational relationships and diasporas. Much of this work is oriented toward supporting, connecting, and maintaining kin members and kin relationships-the work that enables a family to reproduce and regenerate itself across generations and across the globe.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work -- PART ONE. The Kin-scription of Older People into Care -- 1. Flexible Kin Work, Flexible Migration: Aging Migrants Caught between Productive and Reproductive Labor in the European Union -- 2. The New Aging Trajectories of Chinese Grandparents in Canada -- 3. Sacrifice or Abandonment? Nicaraguan Grandmothers' Narratives of Migration as Kin Work -- PART TWO. Reconfigurations of Kinship and Care in Migration Contexts -- 4. Fostering Change: Elderly Foster Mothers' Intergenerational Influence in Contemporary China -- 5. Negotiating Sacred Values: Dharma, Karma, and Migrant Hindu Women -- 6. Transformations in Transnational Aging: A Century of Caring among Italians in Australia -- PART THREE. Aging, Kin Work, and Migrant Trajectories -- 7. Returning Home: The Retirement Strategies of Aging Ghanaian Care Workers -- 8. Balancing the Weight of Nations and Families Transnationally: The Case of Older Caribbean Canadian Women -- 9. The Recognition and Denial of Kin Work in Palliative Care: Epitomizing Narratives of Canadian Ismaili Muslims -- Acknowledgments -- References -- About the Contributors -- Index

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Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work documents the social and material contributions of older persons to their families in settings shaped by migration, their everyday lives in domestic and community spaces, and in the context of intergenerational relationships and diasporas. Much of this work is oriented toward supporting, connecting, and maintaining kin members and kin relationships-the work that enables a family to reproduce and regenerate itself across generations and across the globe.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jan 2021)