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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"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
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| Acknowledgements |
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1 Introduction: Flirting with Freedom |
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2 Cultural Contexts: Positive Ageing, Migration and Place |
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3 Location, Location, Location: Retiring in Spain |
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4 The Time of Our Lives: Temporality and the Life Course |
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5 Does Age Matter? Positive Ageing and Place |
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6 Community and the Individual in Migrants' Spain |
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7 Cultural Identities, Ageing and Death |
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8 Conclusion: Paradoxes of Ageing in Retirement Migration |
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| Notes |
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| Bibliography |
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| Index |
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Caroline Oliver is a Senior Researcher at the Centre of Migration, Policy and Society at the University of Oxford. She has worked previously at the University of Cambridge and the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and completed her PhD at the University of Hull, UK.
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