Families Caring Across Borders

LORETTA BALDASSAR is Associate Professor in Anthropology/Sociology in the School of Social and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia. Her first book, Visits Home: Migration Experiences between Italy and Australia (2001), won the 2002 NSW Premier's Literary Award, Community Relations category. She has published widely in the area of migration studies including From Paesani to Global Italians: Veneto Migrants in Australia (with Ros Pesman, 2005). She is currently working on an edited volume provisionally titled Second Generation Migrants: Contesting Definitions

'This is a fascinating and important book, which as well as providing nuanced and detailed descriptions of the lives and caring experiences of migrants and their families, makes sophisticated use and usefully develops key theoretical ideas...They [the authors] note in previous studies of trans-nationalism a 'gap in scholarship'; this volume goes some way to filling that gap, and deserves to be widely read.' - Sue Yeandle, Ageing& Society 'In the present globalised and internationalised world context, this book is a very relevant and timely contribution to an understanding of what it means to be caring across national borders.' - Dr Mabel Lie SRA:News (Social Research Association) '...this book is a landmark study in an under-researched area. It will be of great relevance to a broad academic audience and to anyone interested in caregiving and transnational migration.' Lena Nare, Finnish Journal of Ethnicity and Migration

• List of tables Introduction: Transnational Caregiving Researching Transnational Caregiving Contexts of Migration and Aged Care: Research Case Studies Transnational Care Giving Between the Generations Communicating Across Borders The Role of Visits Implications for Policy Bibliography Index