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Ageing and Migration in a Global Context

Part of the Life Course Research and Social Policies Book Series (volume 13)

Editors: Repetti, Marion; Calasanti, Toni; Phillipson, Chris

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-71442-0

ISBN: 978-3-030-71441-3

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Aug 15, 2021

1 - 10 of 12 Chapters

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Introduction

Repetti, Marion; Calasanti, Toni; Phillipson, Chris

Pages: 1 –9

[This book brings together two major trends influencing economy and society in the twenty-first century: population ageing on the one side, and migration on the other. Both have assumed increasing importance over the course of the 20th and into the twenty-first century. Virtually every country in...
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Migration and Transnational Communities: Constructions of Home and Neighbourhood in the Lives of Older Migrants

Ahmed, Nilufar; Buffel, Tine; Phillipson, Chris

Pages: 13 –28

[This chapter explores experiences of home and community among migrants living in inner-city urban neighbourhoods. The research discussed explores the role of context and place, relating this to the complexities of migrants’ social ties and multiple belongings. The study was carried out in urban...
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Entrepreneurial Grannies: Migration and ‘Older Left-Behind’ in Cochabamba, Bolivia

Bastia, Tanja; Valenzuela, Claudia Calsina; Pozo, María Esther

Pages: 29 –43

[Much of the literature on migration, including that on the ‘left-behind’, is embedded in assumptions about the youthfulness of migration. In addition, most studies that deal with the ‘left behind’ focus on migrants’ children. Those that focus on the older left-behind often assume that this group...
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The Retirement Scenarios of Peruvian Migrants in Switzerland

Seminario, Romina; Le Feuvre, Nicky

Pages: 45 –61

[Within a notoriously restrictive migration regime, the three-tier Swiss pension system introduces differential rights according to nationality, legal status, and place of residence. Some migrants can continue to receive the basic state pension, along with their employer’s pension, while residing...
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Eldercare in Transnational Families and the Swiss Immigration Regime

Mahfoudh, Amel; Waldis, Barbara; Kurt, Stefanie

Pages: 65 –79

[International migration research increasingly addresses the complex mobility that occurs in transnational contexts. Authors who study ties between migrants and their parents often focus on money transfers and financial investments. However, exchanges within transnational families are broader and...
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Contexts of Migration and the Use of Welfare Provisions: The Case of Romanian Older Migrants in Switzerland

Ciobanu, Ruxandra Oana; Bolzman, Claudio

Pages: 81 –96

[Older migrants constitute a heterogeneous population, an aspect that is rarely acknowledged in the literature. This chapter shows how older migrants from the same country of origin but with different migration contexts make use of welfare provisions in their host country. By migration contexts,...
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Linked Lives, Dividing Borders: From Transnational Solidarity to Family Reunification of an Older Parent

Bolzman, Claudio

Pages: 97 –111

[This chapter focuses on a relatively unexplored phenomenon concerning transnational families: family reunification of an ascendant. It combines theories of the transnational life course, intergenerational relations, and citizenship negotiation. It is based on a qualitative research conducted in...
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Retirement Migration: Resisting Ageist Expectations and Gendered Scripts

Calasanti, Toni; Repetti, Marion

Pages: 115 –130

[Many policymakers, scholars, and members of the general public in Europe and the U.S. express concerns about the ‘burden’ that elders presumably will represent, a concern that can be exacerbated in the context of elders who migrate in retirement, drawing pensions from their home countries while...
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Policy Dimensions of Retirement Migration from Germany to the Turkish Riviera: Comparing German and German-Turkish Older Migrants

Kosnick, Kira; Karacan, Elifcan; Kahveci, Cagri

Pages: 131 –146

[This chapter is concerned with examining how retirement migrants from Germany, who have chosen the Turkish Mediterranean as a retirement destination, confront complex policy landscapes that are associated with their transnational ageing practices and their needs for care and support. Comparing...
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In Search of a Good Life in and Out of Switzerland: Making Use of Migration in Old Age

Repetti, Marion; Schilliger, Sarah

Pages: 147 –161

[Many Swiss households, dealing with care needs facing themselves in old age or older relatives, hire female migrant live-in care workers from Eastern European countries. At the same time, Swiss people are migrating to Southern European countries after their retirement, as a means of improving...

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