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.

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Ackknowledgments



Introduction: Care Across Distance

Monika Palmberger and Azra Hromadžić



PART I: MATERIALITIES AND TECHNOLOGIES OF CARE ACROSS DISTANCE



Chapter 1. Recalibrating Care: Newly Resettled Nepali-Bhutanese Refugees in Upstate New York

Retika Desai



Chapter 2. Healthy Aging, Middle-classness, and Transnational Care between Tanzania and the United States

Andrea Patricia Kaiser-Grolimund



PART II: SPIRITUALITY AND INTERGENERATIONAL CARE ACROSS DISTANCE



Chapter 3. Intergenerational Relationships and Emergent Notions of Reciprocity, Dependency, Caregiving, and Aging in Tuareg Migration

Susan Rasmussen



Chapter 4. ‘Old People’s Homes’, Filial Piety, and Transnational Families: Change and Continuity in Elderly Care in the Tibetan Settlements in India

Namgyal Choedup



PART III: COMMUNITIES OF CARE ACROSS DISTANCE



Chapter 5. Social Embeddedness and Care Among Turkish Labor Migrants in Vienna: The Role of Migrant Associations

Monika Palmberger



Chapter 6. Migrants of Privilege: American Retirees and the Imaginaries of Ecuadorian Care Work

Ann Miles



PART IV: FAILURES OF CARE ACROSS DISTANCE



Chapter 7. Some Limits of Caring at a Distance: Aging and Transnational Care Arrangements between Suriname and the Netherlands

Yvon Van der Pijl



Chapter 8. “Where Were They Until Now?” Aging, Care and Abandonment in a Bosnian Town

Azra Hromadžić



Epilogue: Reflections on Care and Virtue

Sarah Lamb



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