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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Choedup, Namgyal
• Desai, Retika
• Hromadžic, Azra
• Hromadžić, Azra[Herausgeber]
• Kaiser-Grolimund, Andrea Patricia
• Lamb, Sarah
• Miles, Ann
• Palmberger, Monika
• Palmberger, Monika[Herausgeber]
• Pijl, Yvon van der
• Rasmussen, Susan

Titel

Care across Distance : Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration

Ist Teil von

• Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations : 4

Ort / Verlag

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books

Erscheinungsjahr

[2018]

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• Cover

Beschreibungen/Notizen

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• 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