Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments viii
5. Introduction: Care across Distance 1
6. PART I. Materialities and Technologies of Care across Distance
7. 1. Recalibrating Care: Newly Resettled Nepali-Bhutanese Refugees in Upstate New York 13
8. 2. Healthy Aging, Middle-Classness, and Transnational Care between Tanzania and the United States 32
9. PART II. Spirituality and Intergenerational Care across Distance
10. 3. Intergenerational Relationships and Emergent Notions of Reciprocity, Dependency, Caregiving, and Aging in Tuareg Migration 55
11. 4. “Old People’s Homes,” Filial Piety, and Transnational Families: Change and Continuity in Elderly Care in the Tibetan Settlements in India 76
12. PART III. Communities of Care across Distance
13. 5. Social Embeddedness and Care among Turkish Labor Migrants in Vienna: The Role of Migrant Associations 97
14. 6. Migrants of Privilege: American Retirees and the Imaginaries of Ecuadorian Care Work 113
15. Part IV. Failures of Care across Distance
16. 7. Some Limits of Caring at a Distance: Aging and Transnational Care Arrangements between Suriname and the Netherlands 137
17. 8. “Where Were They Until Now?” Aging, Care, and Abandonment in a Bosnian Town 156
18. Epilogue: Reflections on Care and Virtue 171
19. Index 181