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