Book Review Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work

Abstract

In the 21^st century, older people’s aging trajectories are increasingly influenced by transnational migration, either their own or that of their children, or sometimes both. How do these mobilities affect intergenerational relationships and conceptualizations of care within families?

In the edited book Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work, Parin Dossa and Cati Coe shed light into the significance, asymmetries and tensions of reciprocal and intergenerational familial ties regarding care and kin work, both reconfigured within transnational contexts. In nine chapters, this volume presents ethnographic case studies from across the globe that document the multiple intertwining of aging, migration and kin work and how different dynamics, practices and processes of transnational care (re)shape experiences of aging as part of the life course.