Care Work and Medical Travel - Exploring the Emotional Dimensions of Caring on the Move

This edited volume explores the interconnections between care work, travel, and healthcare, placing an emphasis on the emotional dimensions of seeking care away from home.

List of contents

Exploring the Emotional Dimensions of Caring on the Move: An Introduction
Chapter 1: Caring in Diaspora: Hmong Americans Cares from Here and There
Chapter 2: Informal Caregiving in a Transnational Context: The Case of Canadian International Retirement Migrants in the United States
Chapter 3: Care, Choice, and Cure: Exploring the Logics of Mobility of Patients with Breast
Chapter 4: Providing High Quality Care: What Cross-Border Medical Travel Can Teach Us
Chapter 5: 'Caring for' and 'Caring about' International Patients in Delhi: Medical Travel Facilitation between Strategy and Sympathy
Chapter 6: Giving and Receiving Help across the Border: Transnational Health Practices of Migrants in Finland
Chapter 7: The Dual Role of the Facilitator as Emotional Support and Reproductive Travel Broker in Cross-Border Reproductive Travel from Developing Countries: Psychological and Ethical Perspectives and a Call for Separation of Services
Chapter 8: Complexity and Contradiction: Intimacy, Testimony, and Care in Humanitarian Aid
Chapter 9: The Invisible Work of Care and Emotions along the Trajectories of Beninese Children Traveling to Switzerland without Their Family for Heart Surgery

About the author

Cecilia Vindrola-Padros is senior research fellow in the Department of Targeted Intervention at University College London.

Product details

• Authors: Cecilia Vindrola-Padros
• Assisted by: Cecilia Vindrola-Padros (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781793618863
• ISBN: 978-1-79361-886-3
• No. of pages: 214
• Series: Anthropology of Well-Being: Individual, Community, Society; Anthropology of Well-Being: In
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social & cultural anthropology, Migration, immigration & emigration, Human Geography