Care Across Generations: Solidarity and Sacrifice in Transnational Families by K

Description: Care Across Generations by Kristin E. Yarris 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 child-parent 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 parent-child relationship, situating care across generations and embedded within the kin networks in sending countries. Rather than casting the consequences of womens 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. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Kristin E. Yarris is Assistant Professor of International Studies at the University of Oregon. Table of Contents Contents and Abstracts1Tenemos Que Hacerlo: Responsibility and Sacrifice in Grandmother Care chapter abstractThis chapter reviews patterns of gender and kinship in Nicaraguan families and shows how gendered inequalities shape grandmothers assumption of caregiving following mother migration. The chapter uses ethnographic examples to demonstrate how grandmothers respond to these gendered inequalities, negotiating relationships with childrens fathers and managing the legal and social vulnerabilities related to their roles as intergenerational caregivers. The chapter shows how grandmothers experience caregiving as both a responsibility—providing everyday care for children—and as a source of emotional connection, meaning, and motivation. The chapter documents how grandmothers respond to the prospect of family reunification—the migration of the children in their care to join mothers abroad—by drawing on values of solidarity and sacrifice.2No Se Ajustan: Remittances and Moral Economies of Migration chapter abstractThis chapter explores the material and affective dimensions of remittances to illustrate the reconfigurations of care in transnational families and the related tensions. The chapter shows how a solely material view of the money migrants send from abroad fails to capture the complex emotional and affective dimensions of remittances from the perspective of grandmothers and the children in their care. Just as remittances are a concrete sign that mothers abroad remain pendiente (responsible) for families in Nicaragua, they also serve as an unavoidable reminder of mothers ongoing absence from everyday family life. In this way, grandmothers insistence of remittances that no se ajustan (they do not measure up) indexes a moral economy of care and migration that sets remittances against the values of sacrifice and solidarity that grandmothers seek to foster in transnational family life.3Pensando Mucho: Transnational Care and Grandmothers Distress chapter abstractThis chapter demonstrates the cultural significance of grandmothers roles as caregivers in transnational families by exploring their experiences of embodied, emotional distress. Specifically, the chapter argues that grandmother caregivers use the expression pensando mucho (thinking too much) to express the uncertainties and troubles of transnational family life. The idiom of "thinking too much" indexes the moral ambivalence of mother migration, which grandmothers understand to be an economic necessity but which threatens values for unity and solidarity in family life. In this analysis, by thinking too much grandmothers increase the visibility of their caregiving by inscribing their significance through a specific set of somatic symptoms. This communicative aspect of pensando mucho allows grandmothers to draw attention to their embodied distress, signaling the disruption of transnational family life while emphasizing the cultural value of their care.4Care and Responsibility Across Generations: A Family Migration Portrait chapter abstractThis chapter presents the story of one Nicaraguan transnational family, showing how migrations impacts on those who stay behind in migrant-sending countries are embedded in time and imprinted across generations. In particular, this close analysis of one familys experience with migration, taking the grandmothers perspective as the central analytical starting point, demonstrates how past experiences of migration influence family members responses to migration in the present, and how—in turn—present uncertainties shape hopes and fears for the future. This intergenerational perspective demonstrates the importance of analyzing migration as both a temporal and a spatial process, widening our analytical lens on transnational family life across time and, cumulatively, over generations.Conclusion: Valuing Care Across Borders and Generations chapter abstractFocusing attention on grandmother caregivers experiences of the uncertainties of transnational family life calls us to think more broadly about migrations effects on extended families across national borders, in host and home countries, and across generations, beyond mothers and children and into the networks of extended kin who assume essential caregiving roles in migrant-sending countries like Nicaragua. Grandmothers in Nicaraguan families assume responsibilities for children of mother migrants through an informal reconfiguration of caregiving and kinship obligations, although they lack legal protection and social support. This chapter reviews the social and political consequences of approaching transnational migration from an intergenerational perspective, presenting possible policy responses in migrant-sending and migrant-receiving countries that would value intergenerational care and support migrants, caregivers, and children in transnational families.Introduction: Solidaridad: Nicaraguan Migration and Intergenerational Care chapter abstract This chapter presents an overview of the values of solidarity and sacrifice and their meanings in relation to the reconfigurations of care and kinship that follow mother migration. The chapter reviews political and economic dynamics relevant for understanding contemporary Nicaraguan migration. The chapter situates intergenerational care in transnational families within recent research on migration and care, including care chains and care circulations, showing how grandmothers are central actors in global transformations of care economies. The chapter also reviews current anthropological theorizing about care, showing how intergenerational care is a moral practice oriented toward upholding cultural values for family continuity and for childrens everyday well-being in families divided by borders. Review "Using a new and critically important multigenerational approach, Yarris book beautifully charts the broader impacts of migration. Care Across Generations shows us how the migration of others has deep repercussions that extend far beyond the economic, into affective and social realms. A tremendously talented writer, Yarris transforms complex findings into clear, compelling stories of migrants mothers and children." -- Jessaca Leinaweaver * Brown University *"Care Across Generations is an eloquent and sharp examination of the role of grandmothers, the unsung heroes, in providing care and love in Nicaraguan transnational families. This book will be of great interest to researchers and policymakers concerned with the well-being of children whose parents migrate in search of better livelihoods." -- Elzbieta Gozdziak * Georgetown University *"Through careful and vivid ethnography, Care Across Generations moves beyond the remittances-for-care discourse to argue convincingly for the need to value the importance of grandmother care in maintaining the well-being of family members in sending countries." -- Alison Elizabeth Lee * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology * Long Description 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 child-parent 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 parent-child relationship, situating care across generations and embedded within the kin networks in sending countries. Rather than casting the consequences of womens 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. Review Quote "Using a new and critically important multigenerational approach, Yarris book beautifully charts the broader impacts of migration. Care Across Generations shows us how the migration of others has deep repercussions that extend far beyond the economic, into affective and social realms. A tremendously talented writer, Yarris transforms complex findings into clear, compelling stories of migrants mothers and children." Details ISBN1503602044 Publisher Stanford University Press Year 2017 ISBN-10 1503602044 ISBN-13 9781503602045 Format Hardcover Author Kristin E. Yarris Pages 216 Publication Date 2017-08-29 Imprint Stanford University Press Subtitle Solidarity and Sacrifice in Transnational Families Place of Publication Palo Alto Country of Publication United States DEWEY 306.85 Short Title Care Across Generations Language English UK Release Date 2017-08-29 AU Release Date 2017-08-29 NZ Release Date 2017-08-29 US Release Date 2017-08-29 Alternative 9781503602885 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159687194;

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