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Retirement Home? Ageing Migrant Workers in France and the Question of Return (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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Retirement Home? Ageing Migrant Workers in France and the Question of Return (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: IMISCOE Research Series
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This open access book offers new insights into the ageing-migration
nexus and the nature of home. Documenting the hidden world of
France's migrant worker hostels, it explores why older North and
West African men continue to live past retirement age in this
sub-standard housing. Conventional wisdom holds that at retirement
labour migrants ought to instead return to their families in home
countries, where their French pensions would have far greater
purchasing power. This paradox is the point of departure for a book
which transports readers from the banlieues of Paris to the banks
of the Senegal River and the villages of the Anti-Atlas. In
intimate ethnographic detail, the author brings to life the
experiences of these older labour migrants by sharing in the life
of the hostels as a resident, by observing at close quarters the
men's family life on the other side of the Mediterranean as a guest
in their homes, and even by accompanying them in their travels by
bus, sea, and air. The monograph evaluates several theories of
migration against rich qualitative data gathered from multiple
methods: biographical narrative and semi-structured interviews,
participant observation, and archival research. In the process, it
offers a thoughtful contribution to broader debates on what it
means for migrants to belong and achieve inclusion in society. This
book has been awarded an 'honourable mention' in the Khayrallah
Prize in Migration Studies, courtesy of the Moise A. Khayrallah
Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies at North Carolina State
University. For more information please see:
https://lebanesestudies.ncsu.edu/awards/scholarly/2018.php. This
book has been nominated for the 2019 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial
Prize
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