Retirement Migration
eBook - ePub

Retirement Migration

Paradoxes of Ageing

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Retirement Migration

Paradoxes of Ageing

About this book

The book is the first ethnographic study of international retirement migration and offers a sometimes surprising picture of the potentials, seductions and limitations of the lifestyles. People envision retirement as freedom from responsibilities through shedding the restrictive shackles of their former selves in a time of life dedicated to fun, friendship, healthy activity and individual fulfillment. However, as Oliver documents, a number of contradictions underpin the pursuits of such a lifestyle. She shows how retirees must balance time-use to achieve both freedoms and busy social schedules -- their activities, their relationships, and their cultural identities – to balance both the security of nationality with the discovery of the new. Retirement Migration gives a critical insight into the new ways aging identities are experienced by a growing number of older people in Western societies today.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780415372718
eBook ISBN
9781134192816

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. Figures
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. 1 Introduction Flirting with Freedom
  10. 2 Cultural Contexts Positive Ageing, Migration and Place
  11. 3 Location, Location, Location Retiring in Spain
  12. 4 The Time of Our Lives Temporality and the Life Course
  13. 5 Does Age Matter? Positive Ageing and Place
  14. 6 Community and the Individual in Migrants' Spain
  15. 7 Cultural Identities, Ageing and Death
  16. 8 Conclusion Paradoxes of Ageing in Retirement Migration
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index