Przepływy opieki między migrantami i ich starzejącymi się rodzicami - metoda badawcza i przykład jej zastosowania” [Care flows between migrants and their ageing parents - a method and its application]

Ageing and intensive transborder mobility transforms family relations concerning elderly care. As a result of spatial distance, members of transnational families work out new, complex strategies. Complicated care arrangements require a special research approach which is the subject of this article. The research method the authors propose is a multisited, transnational study that combines mixed techniques: monographic analyses, a survey, and in-depth interviews, carried out both with the elderly people living in Poland and with their migrant relatives residing abroad. Selected results of the study reveal complex relations related to the flows of care and demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed research approach.