New book edited by Hromadžić, Care across Distance, published

Care Across Distance: Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration

Azra Hromadžić

Berghan Books, December 2018

Azra Hromadžić

Anthropology Department

Aging Studies Institute

Aging

Migration

Berghan Books

Co-edited by Azra Hromadžić, Care Across Distance investigates how taken-for-granted roles are challenged, intergenerational relationships transformed, economic ties recalibrated, technological innovations utilized, and spiritual relations pursued and desired, and asks what it means to care at a distance and to age abroad.

Publisher's summary:

World-wide migration has an unsettling effect on social structures, especially on aging populations and eldercare. This volume investigates how taken-for-granted roles are challenged, intergenerational relationships transformed, economic ties recalibrated, technological innovations utilized, and spiritual relations pursued and desired, and asks what it means to care at a distance and to age abroad. What it does show is that trans-nationalization of care produces unprecedented convergences of people, objects and spaces that challenge our assumptions about the who, how, and where of care.