Changes in Care Aging, Migration, and Social Class in West Africa

As Africa’s population ages, the inadequacy of kin care becomes more visible. In Ghana, older people and their allies are developing fragile initiatives and programs beyond the norm of kin care. Changes in Care examines aging in Ghana as a way of understanding the unevenness of social change more widely.
 

About the author

CATI COE is a professor of anthropology at Rutgers University. She is the co-editor (with Parin Dosa) of Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin-Work (Rutgers University Press) and the author of The New American Servitude: Political Belonging among African Immigrant Home Care Workers.

Summary

By examining emergent discourses and practices of aging in Ghana, Changes in Care makes an innovative argument about the uneven and fragile processes by which some social change occurs.

Product details

• Authors: Cati Coe
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 15.10.2021
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories
• EAN: 9781978823242
• ISBN: 978-1-978823-24-2
• Pages: 248
• Series: Global Perspectives on Aging
• Subjects: Sociology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Life Stages / Later Years