Linked Lives

Linked Lives
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Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 9781978815322
ISBN-13 : 1978815328
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Book Synopsis Linked Lives by : Michele Ruth Gamburd

Download or read book Linked Lives written by Michele Ruth Gamburd and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When youth shake off their rural roots and middle-aged people migrate for economic opportunities, what happens to the grandparents left at home? Linked Lives provides readers with intimate glimpses into homes in a Sri Lankan Buddhist village, where elders wisely use their moral authority and their control over valuable property to assure that they receive both physical and spiritual care when they need it. The care work that grandparents do for grandchildren allows labor migration and contributes to the overall well-being of the extended family. The book considers the efforts migrant workers make to build and buy houses and the ways those rooms and walls constrain social activities. It outlines the strategies elders employ to age in place, and the alternatives they face in local old folks’ homes. Based on ethnographic work done over a decade, Michele Gamburd shows how elders face the challenges of a rapidly globalizing world.


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