Ethics of caregiving at a distance: opportunities and barriers of smart home technologies for elderly parents of immigrant children in small families

An embargo is in place for 6 months after submission of their data: access is therefore granted in July 2025. This dataset was originally not planned in SNSF project coded RESOURCE but was added at a later point due to a need to address a particular population of informal carers, who also hold caregiving responsibilities and commitments despite international migration.

We used data from different countries in this dataset compared to dataset 2778 and dataset 2779 because we had a stricter and more specific inclusion criteria (only children, migrants to Europe, parents overseas) to capture a smaller section of the population of informal caregivers. A variation of the interview guide was also used that included more emphasis on their caregiving responsibilities. Furthermore, the VR technology was excluded for this group as it held lesser relevance for transnational migration and the interaction of the caregiver-older person.