Retirement Migration - Paradoxes of Ageing

Zusatztext "This book is a welcome addition to the few book-length ethnographies and community studies of retired migrant lifestyles."-Tony Warnes! University of Sheffield! Ageing & Society Informationen zum Autor Caroline Oliver is currently a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, and has held lecturing posts in Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Universities of Hull and Newcastle-upon Tyne, UK Klappentext This book offers a grounded and theoretically robust analysis of retiring abroad as a modern day rite of passage. Clearly and interestingly written, this book pertains to a topic that cuts across a number of pertinent contemporary themes. Zusammenfassung This book offers a grounded and theoretically robust analysis of retiring abroad as a modern day rite of passage. Clearly and interestingly written, this book pertains to a topic that cuts across a number of pertinent contemporary themes. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Flirting with Freedom 2. Cultural Contexts: Positive Ageing, Migration and Place 3. Location, Location, Location: Retiring in Spain 4. The Time of our Lives: Temporality and the Life Course 5. Does Age Matter?: Positive Ageing and Place 6. Community and the Individual in Migrants’ Spain 7. Cultural Identities, Ageing and Death 8. Conclusion: Paradoxes of Ageing in Retirement Migration

Product details

• Authors: Caroline Oliver, Oliver Caroline
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.10.2007
• EAN: 9780415372718
• ISBN: 978-0-415-37271-8
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Routledge Research in Population and Migration
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Human Geography