Care across Distance

Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration

Azra Hromadžić, Monika Palmberger (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2022
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-439-5 (ISBN)

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With a broad geographical scope, Care across Distance explores the multiple ways in which care across regional and national borders materializes from and contributes to changes in political economy; family and intergenerational relations; religion and spirituality; ethics and responsibility; and personhood and subjectivity.

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.

Azra Hromadžić 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.

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Ackknowledgments

Introduction: Care Across Distance

Monika Palmberger and Azra Hromadžić

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 Hromadžić

Epilogue: Reflections on Care and Virtue

Sarah Lamb

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Erscheinungsdatum	15.02.2022
Reihe/Serie	Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Histologie / Embryologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80073-439-5 / 1800734395
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-439-5 / 9781800734395
Zustand	Neuware