Retiring to Spain: Women's Narratives of Nostalgia, Belonging and Community

ISBN-13: 9781447313304 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 208 str.

Anya Ahmed

Opis

The first book to explore working class British women s experiences of retirement migration, "Retiring to Spain" provides a new theoretical framework for understanding these Third Age movements. Focusing on the voices of women either considering return migration to the United Kingdom or permanent or temporary settlement in Spain, the book takes a narrative approach as it follows their journeys to seek, recreate, and construct community in a new context and unravels their experiences of belonging and non-belonging. By offering a much-needed critical perspective, "Retiring to Spain" challenges overly simplified definitions of community."

Spis treści

Retiring to the Costas: British women’s narratives of nostalgia, belonging and community Part One: Lives in context; Conceptualising, theorising and narrating retirement migration; Locating the women: macro, meso and micro contexts; Boundary spanning and reconstitution: retirement migration and the search for community; Part Two: Lived experiences; Leaving the UK: motives, agency and decision-making processes; Living in Spain: ‘idyllisation’ and realisation; Belonging to networks: reconciling agency and positionalities; Renegotiating family relationships: managing intimacy from a distance; Locating ‘home’ and community: the end point of plot movement; Conclusion: nostalgia, community and belonging: linking time and space; Afterword.