UID:
almafu_9959870217402883
Format:
1 online resource (x, 262 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-4473-1101-9
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1-4473-0123-4
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 03 Feb 2022).
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'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.
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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'
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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'
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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.
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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.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4473-0122-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-299-76602-1
Language:
English
DOI:
10.51952/9781447301233
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781447301233/type/BOOK
