Ethnomorality of Care

A novel approach that explores intentions and moral beliefs concerning elderly care alongside practical care arrangements, Ethnomorality of Care presents a concept of care which recognizes how various factors shape the experience of care, including: national, regional, and local contexts, economic inequalities, gender, care and migration regimes. Based on the findings of a multi-sited research carried out between 2014 and 2017 in Poland and the UK, this perceptive volume also seeks to demonstrate how researchers and practitioners can use ethnomorality of care approach to examine non-migrant families and other types of care.

Agnieszka Radziwinowiczówna is Assistant Professor and Project Manager at the Centre of Migration Research at the University of Warsaw, Poland Anna Rosińska-Kordasiewicz is a Research Fellow at the Centre of Migration Research at the University of Warsaw, Poland Weronika Kloc-Nowak is a Researcher at the Centre of Migration Research at the University of Warsaw, Poland

List of Figures Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Ethnomorality of care: theoretical framework What is care? From the existing approaches to ethnomorality of care Inner diversity of care Care in relationships Process and agency in care Local contexts and cultures of care Care as a morally-informed concept Care - migration nexus Long distance care provision and emotional care Delegation of care tasks and coordination of care activities Cultural differences between the place of origin and the migration destination Ethnomorality of care Towards an emic definition of care Conclusions - care-contact continuum Chapter 3: How to study ethnomorality of care? Research methodology Multi-sited transnational research Mixed-method research Monographic study of Kluczbork and Köskie Quantitative components of the research Ethnographies of local care regimes Researching care through in-depth interviews Recruiting interviewees from Kluczbork and Köskie in the UK Benefits and challenges of matched sample in research on transnational families Data analysis Ethical issues in researching elderly care Chapter 4: Main actors of care and local care regimes in two studied locations Care actors Polish care regime Local care regimes Family Public institutions Market Third sector Informal non-familial individuals Transnationalization of local care regimes Conclusions Chapter 5: Care as a part of moral beliefs on old age Norms as a part of the Polish care culture Normative beliefs on care for the elderly people in the two towns Normative discourse on care in the old age Values as a basis of beliefs on family care provision... ...and its morally justified limitations Beliefs on the quality of institutional care provision Moral dilemmas regarding the financing and organization of institutional care Migration-driven changes in beliefs on care The place of caregiving in the normative beliefs on the old age Conclusions Chapter 6: Care intentions - envisaging elderly care Declarations of care commitment Excuses and justifications Local siblings as default caregivers The moral equation of care Resentment Appeals to migrants' well-being Appeals to parents' well-being Appeal to the good quality of institutional care "Whatever will be, will be" and wishful thinking (performatives) Conclusions Chapter 7: Typology of care arrangements Limited care Emotional support Material support: emotional gifts Material support: instrumental gifts Financial support Personal assistance Loose network of care Sociability in later life Networks of "latent" actors Collaboration, division of tasks and coordination within networks Dense network of care Health condition, intermediary types and type-switching Diversity of dense networks of care Role of public in-home care services in the networks of care Principal care provider Familial principal care provider Every day of frailty Health condition - diseases, frailty and suffering Daily care tasks The experience of hands-on daily care Engagement of other social actors Migrants in families of frail and dying parents Institutional principal care provider Nursing home as a shelter Nursing home as a social milieu Coordination within the institution The role of family and close non-familial individuals Conclusions Chapter 8: Adding a temporal dimension: Care sequences and flows Care sequences Intensification of care arrangement The same care arrangement in spite of higher levels of dependency Reduced or less complex care Occasional intensification of care arrangement Seasonal sequence of care arrangements Care flows Personal care provided by the elder adults Personal care provided for the grandchildren abroad Personal care for an adult child Material care provided by the elder adults Financial care provided by the elder adults Emotional care provided by the elder adults Conclusions Chapter 9: Ethnomoralities of care - Conclusions From ethnomorality to ethnomoralities Regional differences in the ethnomoralities of care Socio-economic differences in the ethnomoralities of care Gender differences in the ethnomoralities of care Ethnomoralities of care and intergenerational solidarity in the families Application of ethnomorality of care perspective in future research Future: Brexit and the elderly care in transnational Polish families References: