Beyond Borders: Caregiving and Migrant Identities in Amit Chaudhuri’s A New World and Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘Unaccustomed Earth’
Abstract:
Transnational families thrive on connection and communication, and a key
element of migrant identities becomes their sense of belonging vis-à-vis the home
and host countries. The paper enquires about the mode of communication
established with the role and performance of caregivers and their charge being in
proximity and across national borders, and the impact of this upon the negotiation
and establishment of migrant identities. Amit Chaudhuri’s A New World is pitted
against Jhumpa Lahiri’s ‘Unaccustomed Earth’ from the collection of short stories
by the same name to highlight the nuances of caregiving practices in transnational
families. The paper will engage with key discussions in the intersections of
gerontology and fiction as it addresses issues of ageing in fiction and with
migration as a phenomenon and its biomedical interdisciplinary praxis.
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