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Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
Transnational care practices differ and are not available to everyone in equal measure. Drawing on interviews with migrants’ parents in Bolivia, this book considers the conditions that older people navigate in one of the poorest countries in Latin America and analyses the diverse transnational care practices that migrants and their parents engage in.
The findings highlight how socio-economic differences, migration regimes, provision of health and social services mediate transnational care practices. The authors argue that socio-economic differences matter in the ways in which transnational care is practised.
The book reveals how some parents can capitalise and further secure their position through their children’s migrations, while others experience extreme levels of vulnerability.
“Based on detailed field research in Bolivia, this brilliant book exposes the tensions and inequalities in older people’s transnational care and health outcomes.” Russell King, University of Sussex
Tanja Bastia is Professor at the Global Development Institute at the University of Manchester.
Claudia Calsina is a Researcher in the Planning and Management Center at the Universidad Mayor de San Simón.
1. Introduction
2. Ageing and migration in the Global South
3. Methodology
4. Migration and older age in Bolivia
5. Financial and material resources
6. Remittances
7. Health
8. Care
9. Emotional responses to (adult) children’s migration
10. Emotional care and wellbeing
11. Conclusion