Care Across Distance: Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785338005
• ISBN13: 9781785338007
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.1"