Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work

Herausgeber: Dossa, Parin; Coe, Cati

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Produktbeschreibung

Documents the social and material contributions of older persons to their families in settings shaped by migration, their everyday lives in domestic and community spaces, and in the context of intergenerational relationships and diasporas. Much of this work is oriented toward supporting, connecting, and maintaining kin members and kin relationships.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 538g
• ISBN-13: 9780813588087
• ISBN-10: 0813588081
• Artikelnr.: 45801042

Autorenporträt

PARIN DOSSA is a professor of anthropology at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. She is the author of Afghanistan Remembers: Gendered Narrations of Violence and Culinary Practices.   CATI COE is a professor of anthropology at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey. She is the author of The Scattered Family: Parenting, African Migrants, and Global Inequality.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work
Parin Dossa and Cati Coe
 
Part One: The Kin-scription of Older People into Care
1.      Flexible Kin Work, Flexible Migration: Aging Migrants Caught
between Productive and Reproductive Labor in the European Union
Neda Deneva
2.      The New Aging Trajectories of Chinese Grandparents in Canada
Yanqiu Rachel Zhou
3.      Sacrifice or Abandonment? Nicaraguan Grandmothers’ Narratives of
Migration as Kin Work
Kristin Elizabeth Yarris
 
Part Two: Reconfigurations of Kinship and Care in Migration Contexts
4.      Fostering Change: Elderly Foster Mothers’ Intergenerational
Influence in Contemporary China
Erin L. Raffety
5.      Negotiating Sacred Values: Dharma, Karma, and Migrant Hindu Women
Mushira Mohsin Khan and Karen Kobayashi
6.      Transformations in Transnational Aging: A Century of Caring among
Italians in Australia
Loretta Baldassar
 
Part Three: Aging, Kin Work, and Migrant Trajectories
7.      Returning Home: The Retirement Strategies of Aging Ghanaian Care
Workers
Cati Coe
8.      Balancing the Weight of Nations and Families Transnationally: The
Case of Older Caribbean Canadian Women
Delores V. Mullings
9.      The Recognition and Denial of Kin Work in Palliative Care:
Epitomizing Narratives of Canadian Ismaili Muslims
Parin Dossa
 
References
About the Contributors
Index