Global inequalities make it difficult for parents in developing nations to provide for their children. Some determine that migration in search of greater opportunities elsewhere is their only hope. Studies have locked at how migration transforms the parent-child relationship. But what happens to other generational relationships when mothers migrate without their children? Care Across Generations takes a close look at grandmother care in Nicaraguan transnational families, examining both the structural and gendered inequalities that motivate migration and caregiving as well as the cultural values that sustain intergenerational care. Kristin E. Yarns broadens the transnational migrant story beyond the parent-child relationship, situating care across generations and embedded within the kin networks in sending countries. Rather than casting the consequences of women's migration in migrant-sending countries solely in terms of a "care deficit" Yarris shows how intergenerational reconfigurations of care serve as a resource for the well-being of children and other family members who stay behind after transnational migration. Moving our perspective across borders and over generations, Care Across Generations shows the social and mora! value of intergenerational care for contemporary transnational families. Book jacket.

Introduction : solidaridad : Nicaraguan migration and intergenerational care -- "Tenemos que hacerlo" : responsibility and sacrifice in grandmother care -- "No se ajustan" : remittances and moral economies of migration -- "Pensando mucho" : transnational care and grandmothers' distress -- Care and responsibility across generations : a family migration portrait -- Conclusion : valuing care across borders and generations.