Care Across Distance: Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration Contributor(s): Hromadzic, Azra (Editor), Palmberger, Monika (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1785338005 ISBN-13: 9781785338007 Publisher: Berghahn Books OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Gerontology - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
Dewey: 305.26 |
LCCN: 2017053740 |
Series: Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 9.1" (0.90 lbs) 192 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hromadzic Azra: - Azra Hromadzic is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Syracuse University. She is the author of Citizens of an Empty Nation: Youth and State-making in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015), which was recently translated into Serbian. Palmberger, Monika: -Monika Palmberger is a research fellow and lecturer in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, research fellow at the Interculturalism, Migration and Minorities Research Centre, University of Leuven, and author/editor of How Generations Remember: Conflicting Histories and Shared Memories in Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina (2016) and Memories on the Move: Experiencing Mobility, Rethinking the Past (2016, with Jelena Tosic). |