Caring Beyond Borders: Policies Impacting Transnational Families in Canada and Around the Globe

With the current trends in population aging and migration, comes very real everyday questions for families all around the globe. Who in the family will require care as they age? What will that care entail? Who will provide that care? Now imagine if these questions must be negotiated between families separated not only by vast distances, but also geographical, political and cultural borders.
We currently lack the knowledge about the needs and experiences of these diverse families of migrants, which have also been neglected to date in policy-making in Canada and worldwide. The main goal of my project is to conduct a scan of relevant Canadian and international policies and migration regimes that impact migrants’ and their ability to exchange care to loved ones both near and far. TO BE CONT’D

Faculty Supervisor:

Janet Fast

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Partner:

The University of Sheffield

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Alberta

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