Return migration in later life : international perspectives /
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| Imprint: | Bristol ; Chicago : Policy Press, 2013. ©2013 |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (x, 262 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12367670 |
Table of Contents:
- Return migration in later life; Contents; List of tables and figures; Tables; Figure; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Charting the waters: return migration in later life; Introduction; Migration patterns and accounting for numbers returning; Identity, place and attachment; Lifecourse perspectives on migration; Family ties and obligations; Health and welfare services; 2. Older immigrants leaving Sweden; Introduction; Data and definitions; Analysis; Conclusions; 3. Place and residence attachments in Canada's older population; Introduction.
- Background: return and onward migration among the older populationData and methods; Propensities and patterns; Conclusions; 4. Ageing immigrants and the question of return: new answers to an old dilemma?; Introduction; Empirical testing of both perspectives; Three possible options; Criteria influencing intentions with respect to the place of residence; Health criteria; Concluding remarks; 5. Caribbean return migration in later life: family issues and transnational experiences as influential pre-retirement factors; Introduction; Caribbean return migration in later life: conceptual frames.
- Caribbean conceptual framesSupportive and qualifying trinidadian 'narratives': variety reigns; Return migrants' own 'migration-stories' on later-life; decision making; Family obligations and family love; Flexible strategies: transnational 'va-et-vient': 'coming and going' in later life; Conclusions; 6. 'We belong to the land': British immigrants in Australia contemplating or realising their return 'home' in later life; Introduction; Home(s) and 'that magnet in the beak thing'; 'Two lives in a parallel universe'; 'Family connections definitely play a big part'
- Personal priorities as older peopleResource and relocation issues; Future strategies; Concluding remarks; 7. Diasporic returns to the city: Anglo-Indian and Jewish visits to Calcutta in later life; The city of birth as a focus of return; Anglo-Indian and Jewish Calcutta; Cities, diasporas and returns; Diasporic methodologies; Urban returns; City and community; Conclusions; 8. Returning to 'roots': Estonian-Australian child migrants visiting the homeland; Introduction; The history; The research; 'Like touching with your roots'; 'A very moving experience'; 'My roots are there'
- 'It's like I've got two homes'Conclusion; 9. Ageing in the ancestral homeland: ethno-biographical reflections on return migration in later life; Introduction: researching age and migration in the Greek diaspora in Denmark; Portraying Greek-Danish diasporic, emotional and ageing lives; The enigma of homecoming: cultural myth and labyrinth in the homeland; Conclusion: reflections on ageing, home and belonging; 10. 'The past is a foreign country': vulnerability to mental illness among return migrants; Introduction; The mental health of migrant communities.