| Description |
1 online resource (191 pages). |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
| Series |
Life course, culture and aging. ; volume 4 |
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Life course, culture and aging.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : care across distance / Monika Palmberger and Azra Hromadzic -- Recalibrating care : newly resettled Nepali-Bhutanese refugees in Upstate New York / Retika Desai -- Healthy aging, middle-classiness, and transnational care between Tanzania and the United States / Andrea Patricia Kaiser-Grolimund -- Intergenerational relationships and emergent notions of reciprocity, dependency : caregiving, and aging in Tuareg migration / Susan Rasmussen -- "Old people's homes", filial piety, and transnational families : change and continuity in elderly care in the Tibetan settlements in India / Namgyal Choedup -- Social embeddedness and care among Turkish labor migrants in Vienna : the role of migrant associations / Monika Palmberger -- Migrants of privilege : American retirees and the imaginaries of Ecuadorian care work / Ann Miles -- Some limits of caring at a distance : aging and transnational care arrangements between Suriname and the Netherlands / Yvon Van der Pijl -- "Where were they until now?" : aging, care and abandonment in a Bosnian town / Azra Hromadzic -- Epilogue / Sarah Lamb. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Older people -- Social conditions -- Case studies.
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Older people -- Care -- Social aspects -- Case studies.
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Aging -- Social aspects -- Case studies.
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Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects -- Case studies.
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Immigrant families -- Case studies.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Hromadzic, Azra, editor.
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Palmberger, Monika, 1977- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Care across distance : ethnographic explorations of aging and migration. New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2018 191 pages Life course, culture and aging. 9781785338007 (DLC) 2018007332 |
| ISBN |
9781785338007 |
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9781785338014 (e-book) |
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