Anthropological Perspectives on Care: Work, Kinship, and the Life-Course

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
The Gift of Care: On Filipina Domestic Workers and Transnational Cycles of Care....Pages 23-42
Renegotiating the Care of Children and the Elderly in the Context of Family Migration: Transnational Arrangements and Entangled Inequalities Between Peru and Italy....Pages 43-67
Of Grooming Bodies and Caring Souls: New-Old Forms of Care Work in Brazilian Waxing Studios in Berlin....Pages 69-90
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Shifting Care Among Families, Social Networks, and State Institutions in Times of Crisis: A Transnational Cape Verdean Perspective....Pages 93-115
How Internationally Adoptive Parents Become Transnational Parents: “Cultural” Orientation as Transnational Care....Pages 117-135
Care of the Elderly, Migration, Community: Explorations From Rural Romania....Pages 137-155
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Intergenerational Entanglements—Insights Into Perceptions of Care for the Elderly and Life-Courses in Northern Togo....Pages 159-179
The Temporality of Care: Gender, Migration, and the Entrainment of Life-Courses....Pages 181-205
Mothers on the Move: Mobility and Intensive Care Work Among Cameroonian Migrants to Germany....Pages 207-229
Back Matter....Pages 231-237