Retirement Migration
Paradoxes of Ageing
Published on 6. August 2012
208 pages
978-1-134-19281-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"This book is a welcome addition to the few book-length ethnographies and community studies of retired migrant lifestyles."-Tony Warnes, University of Sheffield, Ageing & Society
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
9 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 1 s/w Zeichnung
1 Line drawings, black and white; 9 Halftones, black and white
File size
2,13 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-19281-6 (9781134192816)
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02/2013
1st Edition
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1st Edition
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Person
Caroline Oliver is currently a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, and has held lecturing posts in Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Universities of Hull and Newcastle-upon Tyne, UK
Content
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
