Care across distance : ethnographic explorations of aging and migration /

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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 spi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Hromadžić, Azra (Editor), Palmberger, Monika, 1977- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.
Series:Life course, culture and aging ; v. 4.
Subjects:
Older people > Social conditions > Case studies.
Older people > Care > Social aspects > Case studies.
Aging > Social aspects > Case studies.
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects > Case studies.
Immigrant families > Case studies.
Personnes âgées > Conditions sociales > Études de cas.
Personnes âgées > Soins > Aspect social > Études de cas.
Vieillissement > Aspect social > Études de cas.
Émigration et immigration > Aspect social > Études de cas.
Familles immigrantes > Études de cas.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology
Aging > Social aspects
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
Immigrant families
Older people > Social conditions
Case studies
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : care across distance / Monika Palmberger and Azra Hromadzic
  • Recalibrating care : newly resettled Nepali-Bhutanese refugees in Upstate New York / Retika Desai
  • Healthy aging, middle-classiness, and transnational care between Tanzania and the United States / Andrea Patricia Kaiser-Grolimund
  • Intergenerational relationships and emergent notions of reciprocity, dependency : caregiving, and aging in Tuareg migration / Susan Rasmussen
  • "Old people's homes", filial piety, and transnational families : change and continuity in elderly care in the Tibetan settlements in India / Namgyal Choedup
  • Social embeddedness and care among Turkish labor migrants in Vienna : the role of migrant associations / Monika Palmberger
  • Migrants of privilege : American retirees and the imaginaries of Ecuadorian care work / Ann Miles
  • Some limits of caring at a distance : aging and transnational care arrangements between Suriname and the Netherlands / Yvon Van der Pijl
  • "Where were they until now?" : aging, care and abandonment in a Bosnian town / Azra Hromadzic
  • Epilogue / Sarah Lamb.

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