Agnieszka Radziwinowiczówna, Anna Rosi¿ska, Weronika Kloc-Nowak

Ethnomorality of Care

Migrants and their Aging Parents

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores intentions and moral beliefs concerning elderly care alongside practical care arrangements, presenting a concept of care which recognizes how various factors shape the experience of care, including: national, regional, and local contexts, economic inequalities, gender, care and migration regimes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 348g
• ISBN-13: 9780367486662
• ISBN-10: 0367486660
• Artikelnr.: 58786639

Autorenporträt

Agnieszka Radziwinowiczówna is Assistant Professor and Project Manager at the Centre of Migration Research at the University of Warsaw, Poland Anna Rosińska-Kordasiewicz is a Research Fellow at the Centre of Migration Research at the University of Warsaw, Poland Weronika Kloc-Nowak is a Researcher at the Centre of Migration Research at the University of Warsaw, Poland

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Ethnomorality of care: theoretical framework
What is care? From the existing approaches to ethnomorality of care
Inner diversity of care
Care in relationships
Process and agency in care
Local contexts and cultures of care
Care as a morally-informed concept
Care - migration nexus
Long distance care provision and emotional care
Delegation of care tasks and coordination of care activities
Cultural differences between the place of origin and the migration
destination
Ethnomorality of care
Towards an emic definition of care
Conclusions - care-contact continuum
Chapter 3: How to study ethnomorality of care? Research methodology
Multi-sited transnational research
Mixed-method research
Monographic study of Kluczbork and Köskie
Quantitative components of the research
Ethnographies of local care regimes
Researching care through in-depth interviews
Recruiting interviewees from Kluczbork and Köskie in the UK
Benefits and challenges of matched sample in research on transnational
families
Data analysis
Ethical issues in researching elderly care
Chapter 4: Main actors of care and local care regimes in two studied
locations
Care actors
Polish care regime
Local care regimes
Family
Public institutions
Market
Third sector
Informal non-familial individuals
Transnationalization of local care regimes
Conclusions
Chapter 5: Care as a part of moral beliefs on old age
Norms as a part of the Polish care culture
Normative beliefs on care for the elderly people in the two towns
Normative discourse on care in the old age
Values as a basis of beliefs on family care provision...
...and its morally justified limitations
Beliefs on the quality of institutional care provision
Moral dilemmas regarding the financing and organization of institutional
care
Migration-driven changes in beliefs on care
The place of caregiving in the normative beliefs on the old age
Conclusions
Chapter 6: Care intentions - envisaging elderly care
Declarations of care commitment
Excuses and justifications
Local siblings as default caregivers
The moral equation of care
Resentment
Appeals to migrants' well-being
Appeals to parents' well-being
Appeal to the good quality of institutional care
"Whatever will be, will be" and wishful thinking (performatives)
Conclusions
Chapter 7: Typology of care arrangements
Limited care
Emotional support
Material support: emotional gifts
Material support: instrumental gifts
Financial support
Personal assistance
Loose network of care
Sociability in later life
Networks of "latent" actors
Collaboration, division of tasks and coordination within networks
Dense network of care
Health condition, intermediary types and type-switching
Diversity of dense networks of care
Role of public in-home care services in the networks of care
Principal care provider
Familial principal care provider
Every day of frailty
Health condition - diseases, frailty and suffering
Daily care tasks
The experience of hands-on daily care
Engagement of other social actors
Migrants in families of frail and dying parents
Institutional principal care provider
Nursing home as a shelter
Nursing home as a social milieu
Coordination within the institution
The role of family and close non-familial individuals
Conclusions
Chapter 8: Adding a temporal dimension: Care sequences and flows
Care sequences
Intensification of care arrangement
The same care arrangement in spite of higher levels of dependency
Reduced or less complex care
Occasional intensification of care arrangement
Seasonal sequence of care arrangements
Care flows
Personal care provided by the elder adults
Personal care provided for the grandchildren abroad
Personal care for an adult child
Material care provided by the elder adults
Financial care provided by the elder adults
Emotional care provided by the elder adults
Conclusions
Chapter 9: Ethnomoralities of care - Conclusions
From ethnomorality to ethnomoralities
Regional differences in the ethnomoralities of care
Socio-economic differences in the ethnomoralities of care
Gender differences in the ethnomoralities of care
Ethnomoralities of care and intergenerational solidarity in the families
Application of ethnomorality of care perspective in future research
Future: Brexit and the elderly care in transnational Polish families
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