
Care Across Generations
Solidarity and Sacrifice in Transnational Families
- 216 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Global inequalities make it difficult for parents in developing nations to provide for their children. Some determine that migration in search of higher wages is their only hope. Many studies have looked at how migration transforms the childāparent relationship. But what happens to other generational relationships when mothers migrate?
Care Across Generations takes a close look at grandmother care in Nicaraguan transnational families, examining both the structural and gendered inequalities that motivate migration and caregiving as well as the cultural values that sustain intergenerational care. Kristin E. Yarris broadens the transnational migrant story beyond the parentāchild relationship, situating care across generations and embedded within the kin networks in sending countries. Rather than casting the consequences of women's migration in migrant sending countries solely in terms of a "care deficit," Yarris shows how intergenerational reconfigurations of care serve as a resource for the wellbeing of children and other family members who stay behind after transnational migration. Moving our perspective across borders and over generations, Care Across Generations shows the social and moral value of intergenerational care for contemporary transnational families.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface: Entering the Field: Grandmothers, Distress, and Care
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Solidaridad: Nicaraguan Migration and Intergenerational Care
- 1. Tenemos Que Hacerlo: Responsibility and Sacrifice in Grandmother Care
- 2. No Se Ajustan: Remittances and Moral Economies of Migration
- 3. Pensando Mucho: Transnational Care and Grandmothersā Distress
- 4. Care and Responsibility Across Generations: A Family Migration Portrait
- Conclusion: Valuing Care Across Borders and Generations
- Appendix: Interviews and Spending Time: Ethnographic Methods with Families
- Notes
- References
- Index