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- King, Russell, et al.
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International retirement migrants
- 2023
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Ingår i: Handbook on Migration and Ageing. - : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781839106767 - 9781839106774 ; , s. 172-182
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- International retirement migration (IRM) is hard to quantify yet is an increasingly important element in global migration, especially from more wealthy countries. IRM is driven by demographic, economic and lifestyle factors and is strongly interrelated with tourism flows and destinations. Conventionally seen as a privileged, socio-economically selective migration, it also attracts ‘pension-poor’ people seeking cheaper as well as more satisfying retirement lifestyles in warmer climates and pleasant urban and rural landscapes. Three regional systems of IRM are described: the European north-to-south migration of retirees to places such as southern Spain or rural Tuscany; the American system from North to Latin America, notably Ecuador; and an Asian system focused on Thailand as key destination. Despite systemic shocks such as the global economic crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic, IRM is likely to increase in the future, with new typologies and geographies of movement emerging.
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- Lulle, Aija, et al.
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Older migrants and self-realization projects
- 2023
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Ingår i: Handbook on Migration and Ageing. - : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781839106767 - 9781839106774 ; , s. 229-240
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The chapter reviews literature on self-realisation among older age migrants. It examines Western culture-influenced ideas about lifestyle and retirement migration projects, body and health as related to concepts of active and successful ageing and neuroculture. It further considers self-realisation through family projects and migration to countries where desirable gender roles can be pursued, work abroad and return migration projects. Finally, the chapter reviews civic participation projects. The chapter argues for more explicit and in-depth attention to civic and political participation, and for concerted efforts to study self-realisation projects in the Global South.
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- Mac Innes, Hanna, 1980, et al.
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Social Exclusion
- 2023
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Ingår i: Handbook on Migration and Ageing. - Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781839106767 ; , s. 87-98
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This comprehensive Handbook explores the fundamental concepts surrounding the ageing-migration nexus. It is indispensable reading, presenting interdisciplinary research to investigate the unique experiences of older migrants, migrant eldercare workers and older people left behind.
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- Torres, Sandra, Professor, 1968-
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Ethnicity and race
- 2023
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Ingår i: Handbook on Migration and Ageing. - Cheltenham; Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781839106767 - 9781839106774 ; , s. 45-56
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter draws attention to the ways in which ethnicity and race have been conceptualised in the social sciences, and argues that research on the nexus of migration and ageing is most often informed by either social gerontology or migration studies. The chapter describes the three approaches to ethnicity and race there are (i.e. primordialism, circumstantialism and social constructionism), and how these approaches have informed how these identification grounds are made sense of in social gerontology, and migration studies respectively. The chapter presents what research on older ethno-racialised minorities has already shown about the approaches that most often inform social gerontology (i.e. primordialism and circumstantialim), and critically dissects how research on older migrants approaches these identification grounds. The chapter argues that scholarship (not just policy and practice) is a construction site that spreads ideas about ethno-racialised populations (incl. migrants), which is why a critical lens on the approaches that inform research is needed.
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- Torres, Sandra, Professor, 1968-
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Racialization and racism
- 2023
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Ingår i: Handbook on Migration and Ageing. - Cheltenham; Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781839106767 - 9781839106774 ; , s. 107-117
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter introduces readers to the concepts that are racialisation and racism and argues that these concepts will help us advance how scholarship on older ethno-racialised minorities (incl. migrants) makes sense of ethnicity and race. The chapter showcases how racialisation and racism inform social gerontological research on older ethno-racialised minorities, and reviews the ways in which these concepts inform research on older migrants. By proposing some of the angles of investigation that must be included in an agenda for future research, this chapter argues that attention must be paid to the racialisation practices that inform our research. The chapter argues also that designing research inquiries that explore how racism impacts the lives of older ethno-racialised minorities (incl. migrants) is a must if we want to unleash our own scholarly imagination about these populations.
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