ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the research problem and outline of the book. Drawing on the literature on the topic, it presents care as a complex issue, entailing material and emotional aspects. The authors engage with current debates around care, specifically about its gendered and familialized character, inequalities inherent to care provision and receiving and processes of care marketization. The topic of care in transnational families is introduced. In what follows, the choice of Poland as a care and migration nexus research case is explained, with reference to a short country background and description of the Polish care regime. Next, the authors elaborate on their decision on whom to include within the broad category of elder adults (including aging parents of migrants). The introduction briefly signals the multi-sited research field (two middle-sized Polish towns and migrants from these towns to the UK) and concludes with the outline of the book.
