Care across Distance

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Care across Distance

Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration

Anthropology Maturation and ageing

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Collection: Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations

Language: English

Published by: Berghahn Books

Published on: 24th May 2018

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 3 Mb

ISBN: 9781785338014


World-wide migration and its impact on social structures

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.

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