Aging and the Indian Diaspora: Cosmopolitan Families in India and Abroad (Tracking Globalization)

by Sarah Lamb

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The proliferation of old age homes and increasing numbers of elderly living alone are startling new phenomena in India. These trends are related to extensive overseas migration and the transnational dispersal of families. In this moving and insightful account, Sarah Lamb shows that older persons are innovative agents in the processes of social-cultural change. Lamb's study probes debates and cultural assumptions in both India and the United States regarding how best to age; the proper social-moral relationship among individuals, genders, families, the market, and the state; and ways of finding meaning in the human life course.

  • ISBN10 0253003601
  • ISBN13 9780253003607
  • Publish Date 6 July 2009
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Indiana University Press
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 363
  • Language English