Care across Distance

Azra Hromadžić is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Syracuse University. She is the author of Citizens of an Empty Nation: Youth and State-making in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015), which was recently translated into Serbian.Monika Palmberger is a research fellow and lecturer in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, research fellow at the Interculturalism, Migration and Minorities Research Centre, University of Leuven, and author/editor of How Generations Remember: Conflicting Histories and Shared Memories in Post-War Bosnia and Herzegovina (2016) and Memories on the Move: Experiencing Mobility, Rethinking the Past (2016, with Jelena Tosic).

“With its ethnographic exploration, the volume is a strong contribution to cross-cultural studies on the role of older adults within a rapidly globalizing world…The book is a must-read for researchers analyzing the process of aging as a transnational and (im)mobile phenomenon that is heterogeneously experienced across territory.” Transfers“This is the book’s strength: it brings together a wide range of ethnographic cases, drawn from various global settings, where ageing unfolds in diverse migratory contexts and where care is differently embodied, enacted, and circulated…this ethnographically-rich and comparative volume is of importance for scholars of migration, ageing, and care. It should be accessible for upper-division undergraduate.” Journal of Anthropology and Aging

• List of IllustrationsAckknowledgmentsIntroduction: Care Across DistanceMonika Palmberger and Azra HromadžićPART I: MATERIALITIES AND TECHNOLOGIES OF CARE ACROSS DISTANCEChapter 1. Recalibrating Care: Newly Resettled Nepali-Bhutanese Refugees in Upstate New YorkRetika DesaiChapter 2. Healthy Aging, Middle-classness, and Transnational Care between Tanzania and the United StatesAndrea Patricia Kaiser-GrolimundPART II: SPIRITUALITY AND INTERGENERATIONAL CARE ACROSS DISTANCEChapter 3. Intergenerational Relationships and Emergent Notions of Reciprocity, Dependency, Caregiving, and Aging in Tuareg MigrationSusan RasmussenChapter 4. 'Old People's Homes', Filial Piety, and Transnational Families: Change and Continuity in Elderly Care in the Tibetan Settlements in IndiaNamgyal ChoedupPART III: COMMUNITIES OF CARE ACROSS DISTANCEChapter 5. Social Embeddedness and Care Among Turkish Labor Migrants in Vienna: The Role of Migrant AssociationsMonika PalmbergerChapter 6. Migrants of Privilege: American Retirees and the Imaginaries of Ecuadorian Care WorkAnn MilesPART IV: FAILURES OF CARE ACROSS DISTANCEChapter 7. Some Limits of Caring at a Distance: Aging and Transnational Care Arrangements between Suriname and the NetherlandsYvon Van der PijlChapter 8. "Where Were They Until Now?" Aging, Care and Abandonment in a Bosnian TownAzra HromadžićEpilogue: Reflections on Care and VirtueSarah LambIndex