Care across Distance

Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration

192 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Gesellschaftliche Gruppen, Gemeinschaften und Identitäten Altersgruppen und Generationen Ältere Menschen / höheres Alter
• ISBN: 9781785338007
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 24.05.2018
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Herausgegeben von: Azra Hromad¿i¿, Monika Palmberger