ABSTRACT
Ethnomorality of care is a novel research and analytical approach. It stems from the assumption that researching care needs to take into consideration the local, regional, national and transnational contexts (responsible for the “ethno-” prefix). In order to grasp it, the research was conducted in two different towns with intensive outbound migration and among transnational migrants in the United Kingdom, whose care culture and care regime significantly differ from the Polish ones. The chapter provides an overview of the multi-sited mixed-method transnational study, combining two qualitative elements (household survey and audit questionnaire), monographs of the two towns, ethnographies of nonfamily care actors (organization and institutions) and in-depth interviews with elder inhabitants. The research focused on (trans)locality – only migrants who come from the two selected Polish localities were interviewed. This enhanced the study in the invaluable “stereo” approach on how migrants and their parents experience care. The chapter gives an account of the challenges related to conducting a matched sample study of transnational families and presents online recruitment methods used as an alternative way to access migrants of specified origin. Last but not least, ethical concerns related to emotional well-being of both interviewees and interviewers in late-life care research are discussed.
