Paper short abstract:

The paper is based on research with aging women with refugee experience from the former Yugoslavia living in the Czech Republic. The refugee experience and transnational care are cyclical, gaining new significances in various stages of women’s lives and in various transnational environments.

Paper long abstract:

The paper is based on research with women with refugee experience from the former Yugoslavia, aged 50+, who have already been living in the Czech Republic for more than twenty years, I will argue that the refugee experience and transnational care of women are not linear but cyclical, gaining new significances in various stages of women's lives, in various social contexts and transnational environments. Special focus is on aging and entrance into retirement age, when the women find themselves under a double pressure: they are trying to safeguard their own vulnerable position at work and at the same time to meet the normative commitments (traditionally expected from women) regarding transnational care of seniors.I will argue that migration often brings the negotiation of gendered moral commitments, cohesion ,duty and practical strategies, the aim of which is to reproduce the family and gender identity in a transnational environment.