Ageing as a Migrant: Vulnerabilities, Agency and Policy Implications

ISBN-13: 9780367180225 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 180 str.

Ruxandra Oana Ciobanu; Tineke Fokkema; Mihaela Nedelcu

Opis

Motivated by the steady increase in the population of older migrants worldwide, this book acknowledges this groups diversity and provides an interdisciplinary, multi-level approach for studying older migrants’strategies to overcome vulnerability. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Spis treści

Introduction – Ageing as a migrant: vulnerabilities, agency and policy implications  1. Unpacking the ageing–migration nexus and challenging the vulnerability trope  2. The role of religion in protecting older Romanian migrants from loneliness  3. ‘A totally new world has been opening up for me’ – experiences of older German migrants who are actively involved in the German-speaking community in Ottawa, Canada  4. Social ties and embeddedness in old age: older Turkish labour migrants in Vienna  5. Forms of care among native Swiss and older migrants from Southern Europe: a comparison  6. Older migrants in Luxembourg – care preferences for old age between family and professional services  7. Growing old in exile – a longitudinal study of migrant women from Turkey  8. Cross-border mobility and long-distance communication as modes of care circulation: insights from the Peruvian ‘zero generation’  9. Transnational ageing and the ‘zero generation’: the role of Moroccan migrants’ parents in care circulation