Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work documents the social and emotional 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.
Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work documents the social and emotional 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.
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.
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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
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
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