Care across Distance: Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration: 4 (Life Course, Culture and Aging: Global Transformations, 4)

ISBN 10: 1785338005 ISBN 13: 9781785338007

Publisher: Berghahn Books, 2018

Synopsis

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.

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About the Authors

Azra Hromadžić 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.

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).

Edition details

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1785338005
• ISBN 13: 9781785338007
• Binding: Library Binding
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Hromadžić Azra, Palmberger Monika