Care Across Generations - 9781503602045

Care Across GenerationsSolidarity and Sacrifice in Transnational Families\nAuthor(s): Kristin E. Yarris\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9781503602045, 978-1503602045\nSynopsis\nGlobal 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 childparent relationship. But what happens to other generational relationships when mothers migrate?\n\n 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 parentchild relationship, situating care across generations a.