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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