Overview

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.  

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Author:   Parin Dossa ,  Cati Coe ,  Parin Dossa ,  Cati Coe
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9780813588087

ISBN 10:   0813588081
Pages:   242
Publication Date:   10 March 2017
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work Parin Dossa and Cati Coe   Part One: The Kin-scription of Older People into Care 1.      Flexible Kin Work, Flexible Migration: Aging Migrants Caught between Productive and Reproductive Labor in the European Union Neda Deneva 2.      The New Aging Trajectories of Chinese Grandparents in Canada Yanqiu Rachel Zhou 3.      Sacrifice or Abandonment? Nicaraguan Grandmothers’ Narratives of Migration as Kin Work Kristin Elizabeth Yarris   Part Two: Reconfigurations of Kinship and Care in Migration Contexts 4.      Fostering Change: Elderly Foster Mothers’ Intergenerational Influence in Contemporary China Erin L. Raffety 5.      Negotiating Sacred Values: Dharma, Karma, and Migrant Hindu Women Mushira Mohsin Khan and Karen Kobayashi 6.      Transformations in Transnational Aging: A Century of Caring among Italians in Australia Loretta Baldassar   Part Three: Aging, Kin Work, and Migrant Trajectories 7.      Returning Home: The Retirement Strategies of Aging Ghanaian Care Workers Cati Coe 8.      Balancing the Weight of Nations and Families Transnationally: The Case of Older Caribbean Canadian Women Delores V. Mullings 9.      The Recognition and Denial of Kin Work in Palliative Care: Epitomizing Narratives of Canadian Ismaili Muslims Parin Dossa   References About the Contributors Index

Reviews

This book is bursting with engaging ethnographic and theoretical contributions from across the world and life course. It s indisputable: aging and kin-work are critical frames for understanding transnational connections, disruptions, and meaning-making in today s precarious global economy. --Caitrin Lynch author of Retirement on the Line: Age, Work, and Value in an American Factory

An indispensable contribution to research on transnationalism, family relations and aging and a must read for anyone working on these topics. Apart from providing various ethnographic writings from different authors that describe their findings nuanced and rich in detail, the book enables the reader to gain new perspectives into the lives of aging migrants. --Caitrin Lynch Anthropology News This book is bursting with engaging ethnographic and theoretical contributions from across the world and life course. It's indisputable: aging and kin-work are critical frames for understanding transnational connections, disruptions, and meaning-making in today's precarious global economy. --Caitrin Lynch author of Retirement on the Line: Age, Work, and Value in an American Factory These thought-provoking, poetic, critical, nuanced, heartbreaking, and diverse accounts of older people's complex roles in transnational 'kin-work' provide an important and understudied contribution to the wider field of Aging Studies. --Annette Leibing professor of medical anthropology at the Universite de Montreal

Author Information

PARIN DOSSA is a professor of anthropology at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. She is the author of Afghanistan Remembers: Gendered Narrations of Violence and Culinary Practices.   CATI COE is a professor of anthropology at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey. She is the author of The Scattered Family: Parenting, African Migrants, and Global Inequality.

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