
- 208 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction Flirting with Freedom
- 2 Cultural Contexts Positive Ageing, Migration and Place
- 3 Location, Location, Location Retiring in Spain
- 4 The Time of Our Lives Temporality and the Life Course
- 5 Does Age Matter? Positive Ageing and Place
- 6 Community and the Individual in Migrants' Spain
- 7 Cultural Identities, Ageing and Death
- 8 Conclusion Paradoxes of Ageing in Retirement Migration
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index