This excellent and fascinating book breaks new intellectual ground developing the concept of the ethnomorality of care to extend understanding of what Polish families think about, intend to do about and actually do about the care of ageing family members in the context of high rates of outward migration and low levels of state provision for elder care. Based on an ambitious research design composed of surveys, indepth interviews and ethnographic observations spanning Poland and the UK, Radziwinowiczwna, Rosiska and Kloc-Nowak offer the reader a rich body of data, which is presented in an eminently readable manner. Their insightful analysis will have resonance beyond Poland, particularly in other Central and Eastern European countries experiencing similar challenges related to rapid population ageing, high rates of emigration and social and economic transition.
Majella Kilkey is Reader in Social Policy at the University of Sheffield and editor of Family Life in An Age of Migration and Mobility : Global Perspectives through the Life Course
This book is a highly original exploration of the complex negotiations of moral and practical issues faced by transnational families with ageing relatives. Through the skillful analysis of the multifaceted interrelations of beliefs, intended actions and actual practices of care we get a better understanding of the moral, relational and political challenges to local, national and transnational care arrangements. Ethnomorality of Care provides a much needed cohesive perspective in times of ageing migrating societies.
Bernhard Weicht is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Innsbruck and the author of The Meaning of Care
Ethnomorality of Care
What happens when the parents of migrants age and need care in mobile and aging societies? Ethnomorality of Care acts as a window in sharing how physical distance challenges family-centered elderly care by juxtaposing transnational families with nonmigrant families.
A novel approach that explores intentions and moral beliefs concerning elderly care alongside practical care arrangements, Ethnomorality of Care presents a concept of care that recognizes how various factors shape the experience of care, including national, regional and local contexts, economic inequalities, gender, care and migration regimes. Based on the findings of a multi-sited research carried out between 2014 and 2017 in Poland and the UK, this perceptive volume also seeks to demonstrate how researchers and practitioners can use the ethnomorality of care approach to examine nonmigrant families and other types of care.
Helping readers to better understand the lived experience of care receivers and givers beyond kinship care, Ethnomorality of Care will appeal to graduate students, researchers, policy makers and care practitioners interested in fields such as migration studies, transnational studies and social and cultural gerontology.
Agnieszka Radziwinowiczwna is a Research Fellow at the Centre of Migration Research at the University of Warsaw, Poland and Marie Skodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom.
Anna Rosiska (formerly published as Anna Kordasiewicz) is a Research Fellow at the Centre of Migration Research at the University of Warsaw, Poland and Marie Skodowska-Curie Fellow at the Ca Foscari University of Venice.
Weronika Kloc-Nowak is a Research Fellow at the Centre of Migration Research at the University of Warsaw, Poland.
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To those who have cared for us
This book is the result of a four-and-a-half-year research project Unfinished Migration Transition and Ageing Population in Poland: Asynchronous Population Changes and the Transformation of Formal and Informal Care Institutions (acronym Mig/Ageing), funded by the Polish National Science Centre ( Narodowe Centrum Nauki ) [grant number 2013/08/A/HS4/00602]. The research project was divided into eleven work packages and engaged fourteen scholars representing various disciplines. We would like to thank them all: Marta Anacka, Maciej Duszczyk, Agnieszka Fihel, Anna Janicka-ylicz, Ewa Jawiska, Pawe Kaczmarczyk, Marta Kiekowska, Magdalena Lesiska, Kamil Matuszczyk and Konrad Pdziwiatr. We are grateful for their feedback and friendly comments at all the stages of our part of the research that focused on elderly care in transnational families. We owe special thanks to Professor Marek Oklski, who was the most hardworking and understanding principal investigator we could wish for.
