Care across Distance

Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78533-800-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 437 g

Reihe: Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hromad¿i¿, Azra

Hromadžic, Azra

Palmberger, Monika

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Alterssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Ackknowledgments

Introduction: Care Across Distance

Monika Palmberger and Azra Hromadžic

PART I: MATERIALITIES AND TECHNOLOGIES OF CARE ACROSS DISTANCE

Chapter 1. Recalibrating Care: Newly Resettled Nepali-Bhutanese Refugees in Upstate New York

Retika Desai

Chapter 2. Healthy Aging, Middle-classness, and Transnational Care between Tanzania and the United States

Andrea Patricia Kaiser-Grolimund

PART II: SPIRITUALITY AND INTERGENERATIONAL CARE ACROSS DISTANCE

Chapter 3. Intergenerational Relationships and Emergent Notions of Reciprocity, Dependency, Caregiving, and Aging in Tuareg Migration

Susan Rasmussen

Chapter 4. ‘Old People’s Homes’, Filial Piety, and Transnational Families: Change and Continuity in Elderly Care in the Tibetan Settlements in India

Namgyal Choedup

PART III: COMMUNITIES OF CARE ACROSS DISTANCE

Chapter 5. Social Embeddedness and Care Among Turkish Labor Migrants in Vienna: The Role of Migrant Associations

Monika Palmberger

Chapter 6. Migrants of Privilege: American Retirees and the Imaginaries of Ecuadorian Care Work

Ann Miles

PART IV: FAILURES OF CARE ACROSS DISTANCE

Chapter 7. Some Limits of Caring at a Distance: Aging and Transnational Care Arrangements between Suriname and the Netherlands

Yvon Van der Pijl

Chapter 8. “Where Were They Until Now?” Aging, Care and Abandonment in a Bosnian Town

Azra Hromadžic

Epilogue: Reflections on Care and Virtue

Sarah Lamb

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hromadžic, Azra
Azra Hromadžic is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Syracuse University. She is the author of Citizens of an Empty Nation: Youth and State-making in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015), which was recently translated into Serbian.

Palmberger, Monika
Monika Palmberger is a research fellow and lecturer in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, research fellow at the Interculturalism, Migration and Minorities Research Centre, University of Leuven, and author/editor of How Generations Remember: Conflicting Histories and Shared Memories in Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina (2016) and Memories on the Move: Experiencing Mobility, Rethinking the Past (2016, with Jelena Tosic).

Azra Hromadžic is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Syracuse University. She is the author of Citizens of an Empty Nation: Youth and State-making in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015), which was recently translated into Serbian.