Families Caring across Borders: Migration, Ageing and Transnational Caregiving

Contents......Page 8
List of Tables......Page 11
List of Figures......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 13
1 Introduction: Transnational Caregiving......Page 16
Caring across distance and borders......Page 18
What motivated our inquiry......Page 21
Policy implications......Page 23
Some analytical issues......Page 24
Defining transnational caregiving......Page 29
Outline of the book......Page 31
The ethnographic interview......Page 32
The questions we asked......Page 36
Key variables in the choice of sample groups......Page 37
Migration eligibility criteria......Page 39
Choice of specific interviewees......Page 44
The conduct of interviews and data analysis......Page 46
'The other side of the world': Italy, Ireland and the Netherlands......Page 48
'Neighbouring nations': New Zealand and Singapore......Page 71
Refugees from Iraq and Afghanistan......Page 84
Conclusion......Page 91
4 Transnational Caregiving between the Generations......Page 93
Types of transnational intergenerational support......Page 95
Factors that impact on the capacity and obligation to care......Page 115
Legitimate excuses not to care from a distance......Page 120
Conclusion......Page 121
5 Communicating Across Borders......Page 123
Historical shifts in communication......Page 125
Changing patterns of connecting......Page 132
The capacity to communicate......Page 140
Global barriers to communication......Page 143
Implications of apparent proximity......Page 149
Conclusion......Page 150
6 The Role of Visits......Page 152
The practice of visits: Form and function......Page 153
The importance of visits: Meaning and motivation......Page 164
Deciding to visit: Negotiated commitments, capacity and obligation......Page 170
The management of visits: Governance and control......Page 178
Conclusion: The necessity of visits?......Page 184
7 Implications for Policy......Page 187
Transnational communication and contributions to care......Page 189
Transnational visiting to give care......Page 196
Aged migration......Page 204
Repatriation......Page 207
Community organisations and micro-factors in transnational caregiving......Page 208
Dual citizenship and transnational caregiving......Page 211
Concluding comments......Page 217
8 Conclusion: Towards a Model of Transnational Caregiving......Page 218
Capacity (ability, opportunity)......Page 219
Obligation (cultural sense of duty/perceptions about need)......Page 223
Negotiated family commitments......Page 226
Findings and contributions to research......Page 232
Notes......Page 242
References......Page 253
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