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Volume 24, 2017 - Issue 5: Ageing in Transnational Contexts: Transforming Everyday Practices and identities in Later Life, Guest Editors: Lena Näre, Katie Walsh and Loretta Baldassar
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Transnational migration and the commodification of eldercare in urban Ghana

Cati CoeDepartment of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 542-556 | Received 01 Oct 2015, Accepted 20 Sep 2016, Published online: 02 Oct 2017

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Paul A. Issahaku. (2021) The Good Old Days: how Older Adults in Present-Day Ghana Compare themselves to Older Adults in Past Generations. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology 37:1, pages 89-114.
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Tuen Yi Chiu & Elaine Lynn‐Ee Ho. (2020) Transnational care circulations, changing intergenerational relations and the ageing aspirations of Chinese grandparenting migrants in Singapore. Asia Pacific Viewpoint 61:3, pages 423-437.
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