Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work
Title | Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work PDF eBook |
Author | Parin Dossa |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 2017-03-10 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 0813588103 |
Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work 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—the work that enables a family to reproduce and regenerate itself across generations and across the globe.
Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work
Title | Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work PDF eBook |
Author | Parin Dossa |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2017-03-10 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 081358809X |
Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work 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—the work that enables a family to reproduce and regenerate itself across generations and across the globe.
Changes in Care
Title | Changes in Care PDF eBook |
Author | Cati Coe |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2021-10-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1978823266 |
Africa is known both for having a primarily youthful population and for its elders being held in high esteem. However, this situation is changing: people in Africa are living longer, some for many years with chronic, disabling illnesses. In Ghana, many older people, rather than experiencing a sense of security that they will be respected and cared for by the younger generations, feel anxious that they will be abandoned and neglected by their kin. In response to their concerns about care, they and their kin are exploring new kinds of support for aging adults, from paid caregivers to social groups and senior day centers. These innovations in care are happening in fits and starts, in episodic and scattered ways, visible in certain circles more than others. By examining emergent discourses and practices of aging in Ghana, Changes in Care makes an innovative argument about the uneven and fragile processes by which some social change occurs. There is a short film that accompanies the book, “Making Happiness: Older People Organize Themselves” (2020), an 11-minute film by Cati Coe. Available at: https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-thke-hp15
Aging within Transnational Families
Title | Aging within Transnational Families PDF eBook |
Author | Vincent Horn |
Publisher | Anthem Press |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 2019-03-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1783089075 |
Transnational families have become a hot topic in migration studies, family sociology and transnational family research. The focus of this literature tend to be working-age migrants and their children in the country of origin. In contrast, older members of transnational families have only sporadically received academic attention. Consequently, rather little is known about the experiences of older people within transnational family contexts as well as about the scope and determinants of their cross-border family ties and practices. Exploring the case of older Peruvians, ‘Aging within Transnational Families’ is one of the first books to provide a multi-method approach to studying aging across borders. It analyzes the complex dynamics of transnational intergenerational solidarity by scrutinizing the willingness and creativity of older Peruvians to support their children and grandchildren across large geographic distances and national boundaries. The book explores the prevalence and structuring features of family-related transnational practices against the backdrop of different migration regimes and shows how policies affect transnational family configurations and the role of older people within them.
Care across Distance
Title | Care across Distance PDF eBook |
Author | Azra Hromadžić |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 191 |
Release | 2018-05-24 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1785338013 |
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.
The Cultural Context of Aging
Title | The Cultural Context of Aging PDF eBook |
Author | Jay Sokolovsky |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 617 |
Release | 2020-06-09 |
Genre | Psychology |
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From the laughing clubs of India and robotic granny minders of Japan to the "Flexsecurity" system of Denmark and the elderscapes of Florida, experts in this collection bring readers cutting-edge and future-focused approaches to our aging population worldwide. In this fourth edition of an award-winning text on the consequences of global aging, a team of expert anthropologists and other social scientists presents the issues and possible solutions as our population over age 60 rises to double that of the year 2000. Chapters describe how the consequences of global aging will influence life in the 21st century in relation to biological limits on the human life span, cultural construction of the life cycle, generational exchange and kinship, makeup of households and community, and attitudes toward disability and death. This completely revised edition includes 20 new chapters covering China, Japan, Denmark, India, West and East Africa, Indonesia, Mexico, Peru, indigenous Amazonia, rural Italy, and the ethnic landscape of the United States. A popular feature is an integrated set of web book chapters listed in the contents, discussed in chapter introductions, and available on the book's web site.
Handbook on Transnationalism
Title | Handbook on Transnationalism PDF eBook |
Author | Yeoh, Brenda S.A. |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Pages | 480 |
Release | 2022-01-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1789904013 |
Providing a critical overview of transnationalism as a concept, this Handbook looks at its growing influence in an era of high-speed, globalised interconnectivity. It offers crucial insights on how approaches to transnationalism have altered how we think about social life from the family to the nation-state, whilst also challenging the predominance of methodologically nationalist analyses.