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Return Migration in Later Life: International Perspectives
The main objective of this edited volume is to explore the motivations, decision making processes, and consequences, when older people consider or accomplish return migration to their place of origin; and also to raise the public policy profile of this increasingly important subject. The book examines in detail a range of themes affecting return migrations, including: family ties, obligations and their emotive strengths; comparative quality, and cost, of health and welfare provision in host and home countries; older age transitions and cultural affinity with homeland; and psychological adjustment, belonging and attachment to place.
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Return Migration in Later Life: International Perspectives
The main objective of this edited volume is to explore the motivations, decision making processes, and consequences, when older people consider or accomplish return migration to their place of origin; and also to raise the public policy profile of this increasingly important subject. The book examines in detail a range of themes affecting return migrations, including: family ties, obligations and their emotive strengths; comparative quality, and cost, of health and welfare provision in host and home countries; older age transitions and cultural affinity with homeland; and psychological adjustment, belonging and attachment to place.
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Return Migration in Later Life: International Perspectives

Return Migration in Later Life: International Perspectives

Return Migration in Later Life: International Perspectives

Return Migration in Later Life: International Perspectives

Overview

The main objective of this edited volume is to explore the motivations, decision making processes, and consequences, when older people consider or accomplish return migration to their place of origin; and also to raise the public policy profile of this increasingly important subject. The book examines in detail a range of themes affecting return migrations, including: family ties, obligations and their emotive strengths; comparative quality, and cost, of health and welfare provision in host and home countries; older age transitions and cultural affinity with homeland; and psychological adjustment, belonging and attachment to place.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781447301226
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Publication date: 08/01/2013
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

John Percival is Research Associate at Bristol University, UK, and has a background in social work and social gerontology. He has extensive research experience in qualitative and ethnographic studies of older people’s health, housing and social care requirements and priorities. He has led work on social inclusion in connection with sight loss, the benefits and disadvantages of assistive technologies, and end-of-life care in domestic settings and care homes.

Table of Contents

List of tables and figures

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

1 Charting the waters: return migration later in life, by John Percival

2 Older immigrants leaving Sweden, by Martin Klinthäll

3 Place and residence attachments in Canada’s older population, by K. Bruce Newbold

4 Ageing immigrants and the question of return: new answers to an old dilemma? by Claudio Bolzman

5 Caribbean return migration in later life: family issues and transnational experiences as influential pre-retirement factors, by Dennis Conway, Robert B. Potter and Godfrey St. Bernard

6 ‘We belong to the land’: British immigrants in Australia contemplating or realising their return ‘home’ in later life, by John Percival

7 Diasporic returns to the city: Anglo-Indian and Jewish visits to Calcutta in later life, by Alison Blunt, Jayani Bonnerjee and Noah Hysler-Rubin

8 Returning to ‘roots’: Estonian-Australian child migrants visiting the homeland, by Brad Ruting

9 Ageing in the ancestral homeland: ethno-biographical reflections on return migration in later life, by Anastasia Christou

10 ‘The past is a foreign country’: vulnerability to mental illness among return migrants, by Gerard Leavey and Johanne Eliacin

11 The blues of the ageing retornados: narratives on the return to Chile, by Erik Olsson

12 Concluding reflections, by John Percival

Endnotes

Index

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