Retirement Migration and Precarity in Later Life
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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 versus their country of migration 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. Front Cover Retirement Migration and :Precarity in Later Life Copyright information Table of contents Series editors’ preface List of tables Acknowledgements 1 Introduction Retirement migration: a growing phenomenon From national to international Precarity, later life and ageism Age relations and ageism Economic aspects Social aspects Health aspects Daily assistance Book structure 2 Retirement migration Introduction Retirement migration: what do we know? Lifestyle factors Ease of travel Transnational family ties Retirement migration and global relations Retirement migration and precarity Retirement migration and ageism Our study Conclusion 3 Precarity and the welfare state in home and host countries Introduction Welfare state policies for later life in the United Kingdom, Switzerland and the United States United Kingdom Pension policies Health policies Switzerland Pension policies Health policies United States Pension policies Health policies Retirement and health policies in a context of neoliberalism Retirement migrants’ access to pensions and healthcare abroad Conclusion 4 Escaping economic precarity Introduction Retirement migration and economic precarity Migration before full retirement age Older people no longer in the workforce Migrants with an early-retirement pension Migration after reaching full retirement age Migrants who lost money in the 2007–08 recession Retirement migrants with precarious households The living costs that matter: variations by welfare state British migrants Swiss migrants US migrants When economic precarity remains Conclusion 5 Escaping ageism Introduction Social precarity and ageism Visible and valuable Gender and visibility Contributing to the local economy Contributing to the local community A community of ‘alikes’: being ‘normal’ Still at risk Conclusion 6 Relying on global privileges Introduction Precarity and privilege Transnationalism Citizenship International travel Local and global inequalities: taking advantage or helping the local people? Inclusion through exploitation Privilege and views of local peoples Conclusion 7 Health and assistance precarity in later life Introduction Age relations and the construction of health Loving care Global relations and local women as ‘natural’ caregivers Precarity and assistance in later life Conclusion 8 Retirement migration, precarity and age Introduction Economics and migration Social exclusion based on age Health and assistance in later life Precarity, welfare states and retirement migration The dynamic nature of precarity Implications for the future Notes Chapter 1 Chapter 3 Chapter 6 References Index
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