Care across Distance
Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration
Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Gerontology, Cultural Studies, Emigration & Immigration, Anthropology
| Author: | ISBN: | 9781785338014 | |
| Publisher: | Berghahn Books | Publication: | May 24, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Berghahn Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | |
| ISBN: | 9781785338014 |
| Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
| Publication: | May 24, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Berghahn Books |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
