Ageing And Migration In A Global Context

Author : Marion Repetti,Toni Calasanti,Chris Phillipson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030714420

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Ageing and Migration in a Global Context by Marion Repetti,Toni Calasanti,Chris Phillipson Pdf

This book brings together two major trends influencing economic and social life: population ageing on the one side, and migration on the other. Both have assumed increasing importance over the course of the 20th and into the 21st century. The book offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on the challenges posed by the globalisation of the life course to welfare states’ old age and family policies. Through a variety of case studies, it covers a wide range of migration scenarios: those who migrate in later life; migrants from earlier years who age in place; and old people who hire migrant caregivers. It shows how both local and global economic inequalities intersect to frame interactions between ageing, migration, and family support. Across a wide variety of situations, it highlights that migration can both create risks for older people, but also serve as an answer to ageing-related social, economic, and health risks. The book explores tensions between national and global contexts in experiences of migration across the life course. As such this book offers a fascinating read to scholars, students, practitioners, and policy makers in the fields of aging, migration, life course, and population health.

Author : Marion Repetti,Toni Calasanti,Chris Phillipson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3030714438

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Ageing and Migration in a Global Context by Marion Repetti,Toni Calasanti,Chris Phillipson Pdf

This book brings together two major trends influencing economic and social life: population ageing on the one side, and migration on the other. Both have assumed increasing importance over the course of the 20th and into the 21st century. The book offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on the challenges posed by the globalisation of the life course to welfare states' old age and family policies. Through a variety of case studies, it covers a wide range of migration scenarios: those who migrate in later life; migrants from earlier years who age in place; and old people who hire migrant caregivers. It shows how both local and global economic inequalities intersect to frame interactions between ageing, migration, and family support. Across a wide variety of situations, it highlights that migration can both create risks for older people, but also serve as an answer to ageing-related social, economic, and health risks. The book explores tensions between national and global contexts in experiences of migration across the life course. As such this book offers a fascinating read to scholars, students, practitioners, and policy makers in the fields of aging, migration, life course, and population health. .

Author : Ute Karl,Sandra Torres
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317814191

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Ageing in Contexts of Migration by Ute Karl,Sandra Torres Pdf

Population ageing and the globalisation of international migration are challenging the research agendas of social scientists around the world, and posing numerous challenges for policy makers and practitioners whose goal is to formulate and design high-quality and user-friendly policies and services. Both of these phenomena have brought, for example, attention to the fact that more and more people around the world are ageing in countries other than those where they were born. The fact that elderly care sectors around the world need to recruit staff if they are to handle the growing number of older people that will need their services is also something that has been discussed when population ageing and the globalisation of international migration have been debated. The elderly care sector’s reliance on people with migrant backgrounds has namely increased as a result of these phenomena. This collection is therefore situated at the intersection of ageing and migration studies and takes into account the various issues with which this intersection is concerned. The chapters in this volume are written by established researchers in the field of ageing and migration around the world. The collection explores these issues in three sections: Elderly care regimes and migration regimes: national perspectives Ageing in contexts of migration: a multifaceted phenomenon Elderly care and migration. The expert contributions in this volume address the array of issues associated with the study of ageing, old age and elderly care in contexts of migration.

Author : Hyde, Martin,Higgs, Paul
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447322290

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Ageing and globalisation by Hyde, Martin,Higgs, Paul Pdf

Population ageing and globalisation represent two of the most radical social transformations that have occurred. This book provides, for the first time, an accessible overview of how they interact. Ageing has been conventionally framed within the boundaries of nation states, yet demographic changes, transmigration, financial globalization and the global media have rendered this perspective problematic. This much-needed book is the first to apply theories of globalisation to gerontology, including Appadurai’s theory, allowing readers to understand the implications of growing older in a global age. This comprehensive introduction to globalisation for gerontologists is part of the Ageing in a Global Context series, published in association with the British Society of Gerontology. It will be of particular interest to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students and academics in this area.

Author : Katie Walsh,Lena Näre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317498384

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Transnational Migration and Home in Older Age by Katie Walsh,Lena Näre Pdf

This book examines the transformations in home lives arising in later life and resulting from global migrations. It provides insight into the ways in which contemporary demographic processes of aging and migration shape the meaning, experience and making of home for those in older age. Chapters explore how home is negotiated in relation to possibilities for return to the "homeland," family networks, aging and health, care cultures and belonging. The book deliberately crosses emerging sub-fields in transnationalism studies by offering case studies on aging labour migrants, retirement migrants, and return migrants, as well as older people affected by the movement of others including family members and migrant care workers. The diversity of people’s experiences of home in later life is fully explored and the impact of social class, gender, and nationality, as well as the corporeal dimensions of older age, are all in evidence.

Author : Daatland, Svein Olav,Biggs, Simon
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-05
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781861348470

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Ageing and Diversity by Daatland, Svein Olav,Biggs, Simon Pdf

Assessing the stereotyped conceptions of ageing, this book explores the diversity of individual pathways of ageing, the sources of identifications, migration and otherness, and the tension between social structures and personal agency. It is aimed at academics, students and practitioners in the fields of sociology, social psychology and welfare

Author : Sandra Torres,Alistair Hunter
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781839106774

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Handbook on Migration and Ageing by Sandra Torres,Alistair Hunter Pdf

This comprehensive Handbook explores the fundamental concepts surrounding the ageing-migration nexus. It is indispensable reading, presenting interdisciplinary research to investigate the unique experiences of older migrants, migrant eldercare workers and older people left behind.

Author : Ronald Skeldon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317891598

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Migration and Development by Ronald Skeldon Pdf

The first text that specifically links both international and internal migration with development at a global level. The world is divided into a series of functionally integrated development zones which are identified, not simply on the basis of their level of development, but also through their spatial patterns and historical experience of migration. Migration and Development stresses the importance of migration in discussing regional, rather than simply country, differences. These variations in mobility are placed within the context of a global hierarchy, although regional, national and local cultural and social conditions are certainly not ignored in this wide-ranging work.

Author : Martin Hyde,Paul Higgs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1447322320

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Ageing and Globalisation by Martin Hyde,Paul Higgs Pdf

Author : Vincent Horn,Cornelia Schweppe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317630036

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Transnational Aging by Vincent Horn,Cornelia Schweppe Pdf

This book focuses on the diverse interrelationships between aging and transnationality. It argues that the lives of older people are increasingly entangled in transnational contexts on the social as well as the cultural, economic and political levels. Within these contexts, older people both actively contribute to and are affected by border-crossing processes. In addition, while some may voluntarily opt for adding a transnational dimension to their lives, others may have less choice in the matter. Transnational aging, therefore, provides a critical lens on how older people shape, organize and cope with life in contexts that are no longer bound to the frame of a single nation-state. Accordingly, the book emphasizes the agency of older people as well as the personal and structural constraints of their situations. The chapters in this book reveal these aspects by approaching transnational aging from different methodological angles, such as ethnographic research, comparative studies, quantitative data, and policy and discourse analysis. Geographically, the chapters cover a wide range of countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America, such as Namibia, Thailand, Russia, Germany, the United States and Ecuador.

Author : Gail Wilson
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0761960120

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Understanding Old Age by Gail Wilson Pdf

Providing a comprehensive overview of issues of ageing from a global perspective this ambitious text introduces the reader to a wide range of issues and policies on ageing. Topics examined include: theoretical perspectives on ageing in society; demographic trends; roles played by older people as political actors; migration; health; pensions; family and institutional care; and elder abuse. This will be an essential text for students of social gerontology, as well as an invaluable resource for students of nursing, social work, social policy and development studies.

Author : Aija Lulle,Russell King
Publisher : Springer
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137556158

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Ageing, Gender, and Labour Migration by Aija Lulle,Russell King Pdf

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.

Author : Scharf, Thomas,Keating, Norah C
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447307419

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From exclusion to inclusion in old age by Scharf, Thomas,Keating, Norah C Pdf

Evidence of widening inequalities in later life raises concerns about the ways in which older adults might experience forms of social exclusion. Such concerns are evident in all societies as they seek to come to terms with the unprecedented ageing of their populations. Taking a broad international perspective, this highly topical book casts light on patterns and processes that either place groups of older adults at risk of exclusion or are conducive to their inclusion. Leading international experts challenge traditional understandings of exclusion in relation to ageing in From Exclusion to Inclusion in Old Age. They also present new evidence of the interplay between social institutions, policy processes, personal resources and the contexts within which ageing individuals live to show how this shapes inclusion or exclusion in later life. Dealing with topics such as globalisation, age discrimination and human rights, intergenerational relationships, poverty, and migration, the book is essential reading for anyone interested in ageing issues.

Author : Azra Hromadžić,Monika Palmberger
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785338014

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Care across Distance by Azra Hromadžić,Monika Palmberger Pdf

World-wide migration has an unsettling effect on social structures, especially on aging populations and eldercare. This volume investigates how taken-for-granted roles are challenged, intergenerational relationships transformed, economic ties recalibrated, technological innovations utilized, and spiritual relations pursued and desired, and asks what it means to care at a distance and to age abroad. What it does show is that trans-nationalization of care produces unprecedented convergences of people, objects and spaces that challenge our assumptions about the who, how, and where of care.

Author : Tine Buffel,Sophie Handler,Chris Phillipson
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-17
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781447331315

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Age-Friendly Cities and Communities by Tine Buffel,Sophie Handler,Chris Phillipson Pdf

This important book provides a comprehensive survey of different strategies for developing age-friendly communities, and the extent to which older people themselves can be involved in the co-production of age-friendly policies and practices.