Main description:

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.

Contents:

List of Illustrations

Ackknowledgments

Introduction: Care Across Distance

Monika Palmberger and Azra Hromadzic

PART I: MATERIALITIES AND TECHNOLOGIES OF CARE ACROSS DISTANCE

Chapter 1. Recalibrating Care: Newly Resettled Nepali-Bhutanese Refugees in Upstate New York

Retika Desai

Chapter 2. Healthy Aging, Middle-classness, and Transnational Care between Tanzania and the United States

Andrea Patricia Kaiser-Grolimund

PART II: SPIRITUALITY AND INTERGENERATIONAL CARE ACROSS DISTANCE

Chapter 3. Intergenerational Relationships and Emergent Notions of Reciprocity, Dependency, Caregiving, and Aging in Tuareg Migration

Susan Rasmussen

Chapter 4. 'Old People's Homes', Filial Piety, and Transnational Families: Change and Continuity in Elderly Care in the Tibetan Settlements in India

Namgyal Choedup

PART III: COMMUNITIES OF CARE ACROSS DISTANCE

Chapter 5. Social Embeddedness and Care Among Turkish Labor Migrants in Vienna: The Role of Migrant Associations

Monika Palmberger

Chapter 6. Migrants of Privilege: American Retirees and the Imaginaries of Ecuadorian Care Work

Ann Miles

PART IV: FAILURES OF CARE ACROSS DISTANCE

Chapter 7. Some Limits of Caring at a Distance: Aging and Transnational Care Arrangements between Suriname and the Netherlands

Yvon Van der Pijl

Chapter 8. "Where Were They Until Now?" Aging, Care and Abandonment in a Bosnian Town

Azra Hromadzic

Epilogue: Reflections on Care and Virtue

Sarah Lamb

Index