Ageing, gender, and labour migration
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Bibliographic Information
Ageing, gender, and labour migration
(Palgrave pivot)(Mobility & politics / series editors Martin Geiger, Parvati Raghuram and William Walters)
Palgrave Macmillan, c2016
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 1. AGEING MIGRANTS: A NEW RESEARCH CHALLENGE 1.1 Introduction1.2 Towards a typology of ageing and migration
- and the specific category of ageing labour migrants.1.3 Older-age female migration from post-Soviet Latvia1.4 Methodology1.5 Key research questions and outline of the book 2. AGEING, GENDER AND MIGRATION: THEORISING ENTWINED BECOMINGS 2.1 Introduction2.2 Migration and gender2.3 Where is ageing in migration theories?2.4 Life-course, ageing, gender and migration2.5 Neoliberal discourses of ageing and personal freedom2.6 For better ageing: well-being while ageing2.7 Claiming embodied citizenship2.8 Conclusion 3. FUNCTIONAL WELL-BEING AND ECONOMIC CITIZENSHIP 3.1 Introduction3.2 Work before in Latvia3.3 Start living your life elsewhere: liquid migration3.4 Income through hard work: the need for good health and physical strength3.5 Practising economic citizenship: looking for a new job, asking for better pay3.6 Suspended citizenship: earning for old age3.7 The end-game: return to Latvia? 4. PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING, EROTIC AGENCY AND INTIMATE CITIZENSHIP 4.1 Introduction4.2 Feeling freedom4.3 Relationships with family members and friends4.4 Claiming a free body: leisure and pastimes4.5 Erotic agency and psychological well-being4.6 Conclusion 5. CONCLUSIONS, DISCUSSION, AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS 5.1 Introduction5.2 Economic citizenship and functional well-being5.3 Intimate citizenship and psychosocial well-being5.4 Future migration trajectories5.5 Discussion: core-periphery dynamics and migration flows5.6 The knowledgeable ageing migrant as an EU citizen5.7 Policy implications
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