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  • Aging within Transnational Families

    The Case of Older Peruvians

    by Vincent Horn ...
    'Aging within Transnational Families' is the first book to provide a multi-method approach to studying aging across borders. By asking how, why and to what extent do older Peruvians engage in transnational family ties and practices, the book enhances our knowledge about aging across borders. Drawing on the care circulation framework and the capacity and desire approach, it explores the motivations ... Read more

    $34.29 CAD

  • Aging within Transnational Families

    The Case of Older Peruvians

    by Vincent Horn ...
    Transnational migration studies has produced a wealth of literature on migrants’ economic, cultural, social and political practices and relationships across national borders. At least until recently, the primary focus of this literature was on younger adults, especially unskilled labour migrants from the Global South. In contrast, the question of how old age and different degrees of mobility ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Aging within Transnational Families

    The Case of Older Peruvians

    by Vincent Horn ...
    Transnational migration studies has produced a wealth of literature on migrants’ economic, cultural, social and political practices and relationships across national borders. At least until recently, the primary focus of this literature was on younger adults, especially unskilled labour migrants from the Global South. In contrast, the question of how old age and different degrees of mobility ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Global Old Age Care Industry

    Tapping into migrants for tackling the old age care crisis

    Edited by Vincent Horn, Cornelia Schweppe, Anita Böcker, María Bruquetas-Callejo ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book focuses on the emerging global old age care industry developing as a response to tackle the “old age care crisis” in richer countries. In this global industry, multiple actors are involved in recruiting, skilling and placing migrant care workers in different spheres of the receiving country's old age care system. This book delves into the analysis of these actors and the multiple levels ... Read more

    $167.99 CAD

  • Transnational Aging

    Current Insights and Future Challenges

    Edited by Vincent Horn, Cornelia Schweppe ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Transnationalism
    This book focuses on the diverse interrelationships between aging and transnationality. It argues that the lives of older people are increasingly entangled in transnational contexts on the social as well as the cultural, economic and political levels. Within these contexts, older people both actively contribute to and are affected by border-crossing processes. In addition, while some may ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

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  • Towards a Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities between Europe and Latin America

    Edited by Pedro López-Roldán, Sandra Fachelli ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access volume identifies the common and specific aspects of social mechanisms that generate inequalities, through comparative analyses of different dimensions in which inequalities are expressed. It includes studies on social inequalities in 5 European and 5 Latin American countries, along 11 thematic axes: inequalities in the labour market and labour trajectories; asymmetries in the ... Read more

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  • Parents Without Papers

    The Progress and Pitfalls of Mexican American Integration

    by Frank D. Bean, Susan K. Brown, James D. Bachmeier, Susan Brown, James Bachmeier ...
    For several decades, Mexican immigrants in the United States have outnumbered those from any other country. Though the economy increasingly needs their labor, many remain unauthorized. In Parents Without Papers, immigration scholars Frank D. Bean, Susan K. Brown, and James D. Bachmeier document the extent to which the outsider status of these newcomers inflicts multiple hardships on their children ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Transnational Families, Migration and the Circulation of Care

    Understanding Mobility and Absence in Family Life

    Edited by Loretta Baldassar, Laura Merla ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Transnationalism
    Without denying the difficulties that confront migrants and their distant kin, this volume highlights the agency of family members in transnational processes of care, in an effort to acknowledge the transnational family as an increasingly common family form and to question the predominantly negative conceptualisations of this type of family. It re-conceptualises transnational care as a set of ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Latinos in American Society

    Families and Communities in Transition

    by Ruth Enid Zambrana ...
    It is well known that Latinos in the United States bear a disproportionate burden of low educational attainment, high residential segregation, and low visibility in the national political landscape. In Latinos in American Society, Ruth Enid Zambrana brings together the latest research on Latinos in the United States to demonstrate how national origin, age, gender, socioeconomic status, and ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Disrupt Aging

    A Bold New Path to Living Your Best Life at Every Age

    by Jo Ann Jenkins ...
    Discover the inspiring national bestseller about aging and health that "will help us all live each year to the fullest" (Sheryl Sandberg).We've all seen the ads on TV and in magazines-"50 is the new 30!" or "60 is the new 40!" A nice sentiment to be sure, but CEO of AARP Jo Ann Jenkins disagrees. 50 is 50, and she, for one, likes the look of it.In Disrupt Aging, Jenkins focuses on three core areas ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • The Magic Key

    The Educational Journey of Mexican Americans from K-12 to College and Beyond

    Edited by Ruth Enid Zambrana, Sylvia Hurtado ...
    Series series Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series
    Mexican Americans comprise the largest subgroup of Latina/os, and their path to education can be a difficult one. Yet just as this group is often marginalized, so are their stories, and relatively few studies have chronicled the educational trajectory of Mexican American men and women. In this interdisciplinary collection, editors Zambrana and Hurtado have brought together research studies that ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • This Chair Rocks

    A Manifesto Against Ageism

    by Ashton Applewhite ...
    Author, activist, and TED speaker Ashton Applewhite has written a rousing manifesto calling for an end to discrimination and prejudice on the basis of age.In our youth obsessed culture, we’re bombarded by media images and messages about the despairs and declines of our later years. Beauty and pharmaceutical companies work overtime to convince people to purchase products that will retain their ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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