Eldercare in the Transnational Setting: Insights from Bangladeshi Transnational Families in the United States

Amin, Iftekhar; Ingman, Stan

doi:10.1007/s10823-014-9236-7

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“…The conclusion from the study was that while some caregivers have solid relationships with their informal support networks and view asking for help as acceptable, this is not the experience for all male caregivers. Amin and Ingman's (2014) 78 qualitative study of Bangladeshi immigrants living in the United States focused on the caring context of providing transnational elderly care to elderly parents and in-laws in Bangladesh. The study aimed to explore caregiving practice and outcomes of Bangladeshi immigrants who provide transnationally for their parents in Bangladesh.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The study aimed to explore caregiving practice and outcomes of Bangladeshi immigrants who provide transnationally for their parents in Bangladesh. Using the conceptual framework of Pearlin et al's (1990) stress process model, Amin and Ingman (2014) studied psychological distress and the outcome of caregiving stress. Amin and Ingman (2014) found that transnational caregivers' stress was connected to feelings of unavailability and lack of other available caregivers in the homeland.…”

Section: The Key Idea Of Caring Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Using the conceptual framework of Pearlin et al's (1990) stress process model, Amin and Ingman (2014) studied psychological distress and the outcome of caregiving stress. Amin and Ingman (2014) found that transnational caregivers' stress was connected to feelings of unavailability and lack of other available caregivers in the homeland. In addition, transnational caregivers' situation of having to arrange care added significant stress even though they were not providing direct faceto-face care.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The study included 20 male carers (17 provided care for a wife and two provided care to a mother, while one caregiver provided care to his father). 78 Using grounded theory, Amin and Ingman (2014) conducted 21 interviews with Bangladeshi immigrants giving transnational care to parents or in-laws in Bangladesh. The informants were aged 30 to 59 years, 11 were women and eight were men.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Mbanaso et al 2006, Sanders 2007, Ehrlich et al 2015, the experience of providing caregiving within minority families (cf. Han et al 2008;Jervis et al 2010;Sheridan et al 2014), the context of providing transnational elderly care (Amin and Ingman 2014) and the caring context as regards economic resources and poverty (Vroman and Morency 2011) are all contexts that are explored as potentially interesting in relation to how caregiving responsibilities are experienced. Something else which must be mentioned is that studies listed within "The key idea of caring context" show that the availability of a secondary caregiver is a positive aspect of the caregiving experience.…”

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Men do care! : A gender-aware and masculinity-informed contribution to caregiving scholarship

Wallroth

2016

Linköping Studies in Arts and Sciences

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In caregiving literature, it is often the female gender that has been the focus of attention, and in particular women's unpaid labor. Studies also tend to make comparisons between men's and women's caregiving, using men's caregiving experiences to show not only that women face greater burdens, but also that men's needs can be disregarded. This means that while gender analyses are not uncommon in the caregiving literature, gender tends to be equated with womanhood. The research problem that this dissertation addresses is therefore the gender bias that characterizes caregiving scholarship at present and the fact that this bias is impeding us from moving the debates on care and caregiving forward. The aim of the dissertation is twofold. Firstly, it attempts to contribute to the rectification of the gender bias in question by focusing on men's caregiving and answering the following research questions: What motivates men to provide care for their elderly parents? How do adult sons experience caregiving? What do adult sons think that care and caregiving are, i.e. what are their perspectives on care? Secondly, this dissertation also aims to explore whether a gender-aware and masculinity-informed perspective can be used to enhance our understanding of caregiving. Thus, through a phenomenological analysis of interviews with 19 caregiving adult sons and sons-in-law, this dissertation discusses how motives, experiences and perspectives, which have so far been interpreted as unique to women, are also matters that men talk about and consider important in caregiving. The dissertation argues therefore that much could be gained if we were to rectify the gender bias that characterizes the literature on family caregiving and explore caregiving men in the genderaware and masculinity-informed way that is lacking in this literature at present. Inspired by the debate within studies of masculinity, the dissertation argues that within the debate on care there is a hegemony of care which has so far tended to exclude men's perspectives on caregiving because literature on family caregiving has regarded women as the ideal caregivers. This dissertation shows that a gender-aware and masculinity-informed perspective on care can increase our understanding of family caregiving and contribute to the rectification of the gender bias that care research suffers from. Against this backdrop, it is proposed that caregiving men should not solely be regarded as empirically interesting. This is because they are an unexploited and theoretically profuse source of information about caregiving.

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Section: The Key Idea Of Caring Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Key Idea Of Caring Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%