Ageing, Gender, and Labour Migration

ISBN-13: 9781137556141 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 139 str.

Aija Lulle; Russell King

Opis

This book explores how the real conditions and subjective conceptions of ageing and well-being are transformed when people move from one country to another. Focusing on ageing female migrants from Latvia in the UK and other European countries, this book is based on fifty life-history interviews with women aged 40s-60s. Empirical chapters concentrate on functional well-being in migration, which includes access to the economic citizenship of work, income, pensions, and accommodation, and on psychosocial well-being, and explores Latvian women s experiences of intimate citizenship in migration. In addition, the authors research challenges the trope of vulnerability which generally surrounds the framing of older migrants lives. The study s findings offer policy-makers insights into the realities of ageing working migrants and advocates for a more inclusive transnational citizenship, better working conditions, and ongoing care arrangements for older migrants post-retirement, either abroad or back home."

Spis treści

1. AGEING MIGRANTS: A NEW RESEARCH CHALLENGE

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Towards a typology of ageing and migration; and the specific category of ageing labour migrants.

1.3 Older-age female migration from post-Soviet Latvia

1.4 Methodology

1.5 Key research questions and outline of the book

2. AGEING, GENDER AND MIGRATION: THEORISING ENTWINED BECOMINGS

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Migration and gender

2.3 Where is ageing in migration theories?

2.4 Life-course, ageing, gender and migration

2.5 Neoliberal discourses of ageing and personal freedom

2.6 For better ageing: well-being while ageing

2.7 Claiming embodied citizenship

2.8 Conclusion

3. FUNCTIONAL WELL-BEING AND ECONOMIC CITIZENSHIP

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Work before in Latvia

3.3 Start living your life elsewhere: liquid migration

3.4 Income through hard work: the need for good health and physical strength

3.5 Practising economic citizenship: looking for a new job, asking for better pay

3.6 Suspended citizenship: earning for old age

3.7 The end-game: return to Latvia?

4. PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING, EROTIC AGENCY AND INTIMATE CITIZENSHIP

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Feeling freedom

4.3 Relationships with family members and friends

4.4 Claiming a free body: leisure and pastimes

4.5 Erotic agency and psychological well-being

4.6 Conclusion

5. CONCLUSIONS, DISCUSSION, AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Economic citizenship and functional well-being

5.3 Intimate citizenship and psychosocial well-being

5.4 Future migration trajectories

5.5 Discussion: core-periphery dynamics and migration flows

5.6 The knowledgeable ageing migrant as an EU citizen

5.7 Policy implications

O autorze

Aija Lulle is Research Fellow at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom, and University of Eastern Finland. She also was founding director of the Centre for Diaspora and Migration Research, University of Latvia. 

Russell King is Professor of Geography at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom, and Visiting Professor of Migration Studies at Malmo University, Sweden. He is founding director of the Sussex Centre for Migration Research and author of many books and papers on migration-related themes.

Blurb

This book explores how the real conditions and subjective conceptions of ageing and well-being are transformed when people move from one country to another. Focusing on ageing female migrants from Latvia in the UK and other European countries, this book is based on fifty life-history interviews with women aged 40s-60s. Empirical chapters concentrate on functional well-being in migration, which includes access to the economic citizenship of work, income, pensions, and accommodation, and on psychosocial well-being, and explores Latvian women’s experiences of intimate citizenship in migration. In addition, the authors’ research challenges the trope of vulnerability which generally surrounds the framing of older migrants’ lives. The study’s findings offer policy-makers insights into the realities of ageing working migrants and advocates for a more inclusive transnational citizenship, better working conditions, and ongoing care arrangements for older migrants post-retirement, either abroad or back home.

Aija Lulle is Research Fellow at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom, and University of Eastern Finland. She also was founding director of the Centre for Diaspora and Migration Research, University of Latvia. 

Russell King is Professor of Geography at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom, and Visiting Professor of Migration Studies at Malmo University, Sweden. He is founding director of the Sussex Centre for Migration Research and author of many books and papers on migration-related themes.