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send her back to Taiwan for medical care but her condition did not allow it. Then
she stayed at home for another two weeks until she could be moved in a wheelchair
and was able to take a plane. (Grace, late 30s, office receptionist)
Grace’s mother-in-law moved out of an intensive care unit of the hospital and stayed at home
because the family “does not have money.” The family could not afford the original bill, which
they had to eventually negotiate. At the beginning, they did not know how to negotiate the
medical bill, because it is not required in Taiwan.
The original bill was above $80,000. The ICU bed charge is $5,000 a night. The
cashier asked me to finalize the payment and they asked for a Chinese translator to
assist. When they read each item, I sighed. They tried to ease my stress but I knew
our insurance coverage was for $10,000. In the end, they agreed the amount of
$15,000, and it could not go lower. To be honest, if we had not paid then, we would
not have paid after leaving the hospital. The hospital knew it, too, because they
knew she was a tourist. I kept begging for a lower price. We finally made a deal for
the amount of $12,000 or 13,000. (Grace, late 30s, receptionist)
Grace detailed the coverage: “Besides the insurance coverage of $10,000, we were able to
afford $3,000 to 5,000. We tried hard in negotiations. If the amount had been beyond our limit,
I really would have had no solutions.” In the end, the couple only paid $2,000 in cash, and the
rest was supposed to come from reimbursements from travel insurance and national health
Object Description
| Title | Inequalities of care: the practices and morals of transnational caregiving |
| Author | Fan, Yu-Kang |
| Author email | yukangfa@usc.edu;kenjunction@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Sociology |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2018-01-19 |
| Date submitted | 2018-04-26 |
| Date approved | 2018-04-26 |
| Restricted until | 2018-04-26 |
| Date published | 2018-04-26 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Parreñas, Rhacel |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette Abrego, Leisy |
| Abstract | This dissertation examines how first-generation Taiwanese immigrants in Southern California straddle their socioeconomic engagement in the host society and their family commitment to elderly parents in the country of origin, conceptually blurring the assimilation and transnationalism divide. Based on interviews, participant observation, and surveys, the dissertation explores the shifting conditions of eldercare from adult immigrants’ perspectives. The findings demonstrate a typology of transnational caregiving on the basis of social class, including polymediated, outsourced, and unfulfilled care, as well as different levels of moral vulnerability embedded in immigrants’ successes and failures in caregiving. I argue that a hierarchy of family resources has manufactured stratified settlement experiences within an ethnic group, and consequently stratifies the immigrants’ changes in and resistance to cultural notions of filial duty after immigration. Also, immigrant women have distinctive forms of leverage to reconstruct eldercare transnationally based on their class circumstances. Hence, women’s negotiations of gender roles in family care across borders are shaped by social hierarchies. In general, this work contributes to our understanding of the immigrant family by articulating social class, gender, and eldercare practices in the social processes of immigration. |
| Keyword | transnational families; caregiving; elder care; social class; gender |
| Language | English |
| Format (imt) | application/pdf |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Fan, Yu-Kang |
| Physical access | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
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| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
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| Filename | etd-FanYuKang-6276.pdf |
| Archival file | Volume34/etd-FanYuKang-6276.pdf |
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| Title | Page 253 |
| Full text | 247 send her back to Taiwan for medical care but her condition did not allow it. Then she stayed at home for another two weeks until she could be moved in a wheelchair and was able to take a plane. (Grace, late 30s, office receptionist) Grace’s mother-in-law moved out of an intensive care unit of the hospital and stayed at home because the family “does not have money.” The family could not afford the original bill, which they had to eventually negotiate. At the beginning, they did not know how to negotiate the medical bill, because it is not required in Taiwan. The original bill was above $80,000. The ICU bed charge is $5,000 a night. The cashier asked me to finalize the payment and they asked for a Chinese translator to assist. When they read each item, I sighed. They tried to ease my stress but I knew our insurance coverage was for $10,000. In the end, they agreed the amount of $15,000, and it could not go lower. To be honest, if we had not paid then, we would not have paid after leaving the hospital. The hospital knew it, too, because they knew she was a tourist. I kept begging for a lower price. We finally made a deal for the amount of $12,000 or 13,000. (Grace, late 30s, receptionist) Grace detailed the coverage: “Besides the insurance coverage of $10,000, we were able to afford $3,000 to 5,000. We tried hard in negotiations. If the amount had been beyond our limit, I really would have had no solutions.” In the end, the couple only paid $2,000 in cash, and the rest was supposed to come from reimbursements from travel insurance and national health |
