Description

Based on a multi-sited ethnographic case study on transnational care chains between Milan (Italy) and Lima, Huancayo, and Cuzco (Peru), the book explores how social inequalities are reproduced through the care practices that follow the introduction of Peruvian migrants into home-based elderly care. Anna Katharina Skornia adopts an innovative approach in combining research on transnational care and migration with a perspective on entangled inequalities. In particular, the study sheds light on the role of state regulations in contributing to these inequalities as well as their ambiguous implications from the perspectives of both caregivers and receivers.

Project Details

Project Type

Dissertation

Subject Group

Law, Economics and Social Sciences

Subject Classification

Sociology

Subject Classification 2

Latin American Studies

End

2014

Funding

Stipendium desigualdades.net

Organization

Faculty/Central Institute

Institute for Latin American Studies

Field/Work Area

Sociology

Project Team

Director

Dr. Anna Skornia

Contact

Email

anna_skornia@hotmail.com

Keywords

Migration, Care, Social Inequality, Peru, Italy, Transnationalism, Ethnology, Latin America, Sociology

Publications

https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-2886-9/entangled-inequalities-in-transnational-care-chains/

Researchers

• Dr. Anna Skornia

  Former