Migration and Gendered Webs of Obligation
| Autor: | Maura I. Toro-Morn |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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| Zdroj: | Critical Gerontology Comes of Age ISBN: 9781315209371 |
| DOI: | 10.4324/9781315209371-14 |
| Popis: | This chapter offers an auto-ethnographic testimonio of my family’s migration story and how it disrupted and (re)created gendered notions of care across a transnational field that included Puerto Rico and Illinois. Researchers have shown how Latino families across the hemisphere provide care for children left behind in a transnational context, but we know little about what happens when aged parents and families are separated due to migration. This essay aims to fill this gap by showing how care work for aging parents is (re)constituted in a transnational space. I offer evidence of various ways that we met familial gendered expectations of care for our mother in the last stages of her life. In keeping with auto-ethnographic conventions, I first describe and analyze the socio-cultural backdrop of our story. My family’s experience offers a window into the gendered consequences of the modernization program and unresolved tensions that remained as we sought to sustain our gender obligations to our mother. The most significant part of this essay describes and analyzes how our family—primarily my brother and me—negotiated our obligations to care for our mother in the last stages of her life. |
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