‘The house cannot stay empty’: a case of young rural Nepalis negotiating multilocal householding

Korzenevica, Marina; Agergaard, Jytte

doi:10.1080/17441730.2017.1303110

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“…Communication from emigrant men and their siblings enquiring about the older adults were valued by the caregiver and daughter-in-law caregivers who perceived them as supportive to their otherwise unsupported role. We find glimpses of how siblings negotiate their roles as movers and stayers in relation to household obligations, individual aspirations and shifting socio-economic opportunities to be available in the household for their parents (Korzenevica & Agergaard, 2017). Reciprocal support exchanges from their care recipients such as sharing in household chores, errands, assisting in cooking and childcare had provided caregivers respite and time to attend to other matters, thus helping alleviate feelings of burden (Keefe & Fancey, 2002;Reid et al, 2005).…”

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Family caregiving for older adults: gendered roles and caregiver burden in emigrant households of Kerala, India

Ugargol

Bailey

2018

Asian Population Studies

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The Indian state of Kerala leads the demographic transition and characteristically showcases emigration of predominantly male adult children, leaving behind parents, spouses and children. When men emigrate, gendered contexts burden women, especially spouses and daughters-in-law, with caregiving duties including elder care. Employing the social exchange perspective and drawing on in-depth interviews of left-behind caregivers to older adults in emigrant households, we explore reciprocal motives, expectations and perceptions of burden. Findings resonate gendered expectations of care and social sanction that ensure women do much of the caregiving. Daughters-in-law sacrificed careers and endured separation from husbands to transition into caregiving roles, costs borne to effectuate their husband's filial role. Perceived non-reciprocity, unbalanced exchanges and unmet expectations increased perceptions of burden for caregivers. Temporary financial autonomy could hardly alleviate perceptions of burden among women caregivers who perceived emotional and functional support exchanges from husbands, older adults themselves or other family members as supportive.

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Family caregiving for older adults: gendered roles and caregiver burden in emigrant households of Kerala, India

Ugargol

Bailey

2018

Asian Population Studies

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“…Fieldwork by Ensor et al [70] in the Kaski and Chitwan districts of Nepal realized that respondents rarely referred to weather or climate as significant issues affecting livelihoods, and, although many aspects of social and livelihood change were discussed, no respondents attributed these to climate change (interviewed in December 2015) [70]. Major reasons of ongoing abandonment of rural land are rather lack of adequate labor and wages available for agricultural work, the effects of rising education in households, burgeoning mechanization, and high levels of migration into the urban or global labor and educational market [70,71]. Although migration is by no means a new phenomenon in this region, the scale of migration has changed radically in recent years.…”

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Climate finance and green growth: reconsidering climate-related institutions, investments, and priorities in Nepal

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Nepal, a least-developed, mountainous, and landlocked country is consistently ranked as one of the most vulnerable countries to the climate change. Poor socioeconomic development, rough and highly unstable geography, inadequate institutional capacity to deal with research, development and policy and mostly underdeveloped infrastructures, all have contributed to increasing vulnerability of communities and ecosystems, and have limited their adaptive capacity. Over the past decade, Nepal has made significant progress, particularly in developing and implementing policies and frameworks and establishing institutional mechanisms with the support of donor countries, UN and multilateral agencies. As the global climate politics is getting more complicated, international financing patterns-both climate and development finance-are shifting their ways, forcing the countries like Nepal to diversify the funding base for climate change actions and integrate them within national development plans and strategies. Using the data and information currently available, we analyze the existing financing situations, discuss the future scenarios and suggest policy recommendations to develop a set of long-term adaptation and impact mitigation strategies in specific and environmental change at large. When short-term adaptation strategies funded from existing financial arrangements and other related bilateral and multilateral sources particularly European countries, seem to be encouraging, we stress the need of "public-private partnership-driven full-fledged green economy" focusing on renewable energy and transport, agriculture and forestry, water and water-induced disasters, as well as tourism and hospitality.

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“…Much international migration can be understood as part of a livelihood diversification strategy that eventually results in the return of the migrant to his or her home country (De Haan, ; Greiner, ; Scoones, ). International migration will often be predated by internal migration either by the migrant or relatives to accumulate funds for moving abroad and/or the acquisition of necessary skills (Korzenevica & Agergaard, ). In addition, migrants' return to their home country is part of a multifaceted set of relocations: Migrants often prefer to return to urban areas rather than to the rural areas from which they departed—what has been referred to as a J‐turn (Wiltshire, ).…”

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The migration–urbanisation nexus in Nepal's exceptional urban transformation

Brøgger

Agergaard

2019

Population Space and Place

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The dynamic relationship between urban transformation and migration pathways formed by multiple attractions and mobilities to, within, and beyond urban areas constitute what we, in this paper, refer to as the migration–urbanisation nexus. Drawing on case studies of urban growth in three urban sites of Nepal, this paper explores how migration practices, including rural–urban, international and return migration, and the migrant economy, exemplified by returns of remittances, intersect with the socioeconomic and spatial dynamics of urban growth. The analysis combines quantitative and qualitative data on migration pathways, including the historical timing of migration, the shifting drivers of rural–urban migration, and examinations of the links to an international migration and remittance economy. The findings show how rural–urban migration during the 10 years of conflict is setting urban growth in motion. However, most importantly, the analysis reveals how urban growth and form are stimulated by the migrant agency related to translocal migration economies, in particular, urban investments of international remittances. In conclusion, it is suggested that the migration–urbanisation nexus approach developed in this paper has potential to be used beyond Nepal in studies of migration and urban growth.

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‘The house cannot stay empty’: a case of young rural Nepalis negotiating multilocal householding

Cited by 13 publications

References 38 publications

Family caregiving for older adults: gendered roles and caregiver burden in emigrant households of Kerala, India

Family caregiving for older adults: gendered roles and caregiver burden in emigrant households of Kerala, India

Climate finance and green growth: reconsidering climate-related institutions, investments, and priorities in Nepal

The migration–urbanisation nexus in Nepal's exceptional urban transformation

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