Only Near Is Dear? Doing Elderly Care with Everyday ICTs in Indian Transnational Families.
In Kerala, South India, young people, especially women, are encouraged to become nurses in order to migrate abroad for work and thereby improve the financial status of their family. Meanwhile, many of their parents remain in India by themselves. This is occurring in the context of a strong popular d...
| Publicado en: | Medical Anthropology Quarterly Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 85 - 103 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2018
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