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The last few decades have seen an increase in the migration of
ageing people from richer Northern and Western countries to poorer
Southern and Eastern countries. This book seeks to understand the
motivation behind retirement migration and how precarity in later
life contributes to this trend. Drawing on accounts of retirees
from different nations, the book examines how welfare policies in
their home country and their country of migration interact to shape
their experiences of migration. It shows how ageism impacts social
precarity across different social classes, and across economic,
social and health dimensions. It also evaluates how local and
global systems of inequalities influence retirement migrants’
experience, providing both opportunities and constraints that
differ across countries.
This book brings together two major trends influencing economic and
social life: population ageing on the one side, and migration on
the other. Both have assumed increasing importance over the course
of the 20th and into the 21st century. The book offers a unique
interdisciplinary perspective on the challenges posed by the
globalisation of the life course to welfare states' old age and
family policies. Through a variety of case studies, it covers a
wide range of migration scenarios: those who migrate in later life;
migrants from earlier years who age in place; and old people who
hire migrant caregivers. It shows how both local and global
economic inequalities intersect to frame interactions between
ageing, migration, and family support. Across a wide variety of
situations, it highlights that migration can both create risks for
older people, but also serve as an answer to ageing-related social,
economic, and health risks. The book explores tensions between
national and global contexts in experiences of migration across the
life course. As such this book offers a fascinating read to
scholars, students, practitioners, and policy makers in the fields
of aging, migration, life course, and population health.
In recent decades, the North American public has pursued an
inspirational vision of successful aging-striving through medical
technique and individual effort to eradicate the declines,
vulnerabilities, and dependencies previously commonly associated
with old age. On the face of it, this bold new vision of
successful, healthy, and active aging is highly appealing. But it
also rests on a deep cultural discomfort with aging and being old.
The contributors to Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession
explore how the successful aging movement is playing out across
five continents. Their chapters investigate a variety of people,
including Catholic nuns in the United States; Hindu ashram
dwellers; older American women seeking plastic surgery; aging
African-American lesbians and gay men in the District of Columbia;
Chicago home health care workers and their aging clients; Mexican
men foregoing Viagra; dementia and Alzheimer sufferers in the
United States and Brazil; and aging policies in Denmark, Poland,
India, China, Japan, and Uganda. This book offers a fresh look at a
major cultural and public health movement of our time, questioning
what has become for many a taken-for-granted goal-aging in a way
that almost denies aging itself.
This book brings together two major trends influencing economic and
social life: population ageing on the one side, and migration on
the other. Both have assumed increasing importance over the course
of the 20th and into the 21st century. The book offers a unique
interdisciplinary perspective on the challenges posed by the
globalisation of the life course to welfare states' old age and
family policies. Through a variety of case studies, it covers a
wide range of migration scenarios: those who migrate in later life;
migrants from earlier years who age in place; and old people who
hire migrant caregivers. It shows how both local and global
economic inequalities intersect to frame interactions between
ageing, migration, and family support. Across a wide variety of
situations, it highlights that migration can both create risks for
older people, but also serve as an answer to ageing-related social,
economic, and health risks. The book explores tensions between
national and global contexts in experiences of migration across the
life course. As such this book offers a fascinating read to
scholars, students, practitioners, and policy makers in the fields
of aging, migration, life course, and population health.
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