Full Description
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.
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
