This article offers the concept of ‘work as affective care’ to explore the entanglement between financial and affective in transnational life. This is discussed in relation to practices of paid work by nonmigrant older parents during visits to their adult children abroad, an understudied dimension in the visiting friends and relatives, transnational family, and ageing scholarship. Drawing on ethnographic research with Brazilian transnational families, the article makes two distinct contributions. First, it emphasizes the broader repertoire of activities performed during visits, namely paid work outside the family household. Second, it underscores a temporal dimension to visits, namely prolonged stays. The discussion reveals a financial dimension to care where paid work acts as a form of affective care across places and generations. While often described positively, the intersections between financial and affective goals are not always harmonious, and material and affective needs can prove difficult to reconcile.

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工作作为情感关怀：探访父母在国外有偿工作的经历

本文提出“工作即情感关怀”的概念，探讨跨国生活中财务与情感的纠缠。这是与非移民年长父母在国外探望成年子女期间的有偿工作实践相关的讨论，这是探亲访友、跨国家庭和老年奖学金中未被充分研究的一个维度。这篇文章借鉴了对巴西跨国家庭的民族志研究，做出了两项截然不同的贡献。首先，它强调探访期间进行的更广泛的活动，即家庭住户以外的有偿工作。其次，它强调了访问的时间维度，即长时间逗留。讨论揭示了护理的财务维度，其中有偿工作作为一种跨地区和代际的情感护理形式。