Ageing Gender And Labour Migration

Author : Aija Lulle,Russell King
Publisher : Springer
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : Reiko Ogawa,Raymond K.H. Chan,Akiko S. Oishi,Lih-Rong Wang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811070259

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Gender, Care and Migration in East Asia by Reiko Ogawa,Raymond K.H. Chan,Akiko S. Oishi,Lih-Rong Wang Pdf

This collection provides a comparative analysis of care arrangements in relation to issues of gender and transnational migration, social policy and labour migration in East Asia. Bridging the key topics of migration and gendered cared work through cross country comparisons, it examines how care work and welfare arrangements have been shaped by national and global forces against the backdrop of changing gender relationships, the rise of female labour force participation, low fertility rates and population aging in East Asia. It particularly addresses the ‘feminization of migration’ which is a salient feature of migration in Asia today as more women from developing countries undertake domestic work and care work in Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong. Addressing the issue of care in relation to employment, care and migration regimes in East Asia and the interaction among welfare regimes, labour markets and work-care balance, this collection provides an up-to-date assessment of gendered transnational migration in the region and sheds light on local and transnational policies and practices which aim to improve the welfare of families and migrant workers.

Author : Pamela Sharpe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134586639

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Women, Gender and Labour Migration by Pamela Sharpe Pdf

Approximately half of all migrants today are female. The contributors to this volume consider the ways in which attention to gender is moving debates away from old paradigms, such as the push/pull motivation which used to dominate the field of migration studies. The authors consider women's experience of migration, especially in long distance, transnational moves. They examine the extent to which labour migration is a social and strategic decision for women.

Author : Alistair Hunter
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319649764

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Retirement Home? Ageing Migrant Workers in France and the Question of Return by Alistair Hunter Pdf

This open access book offers new insights into the ageing-migration nexus and the nature of home. Documenting the hidden world of France’s migrant worker hostels, it explores why older North and West African men continue to live past retirement age in this sub-standard housing. Conventional wisdom holds that at retirement labour migrants ought to instead return to their families in home countries, where their French pensions would have far greater purchasing power. This paradox is the point of departure for a book which transports readers from the banlieues of Paris to the banks of the Senegal River and the villages of the Anti-Atlas. In intimate ethnographic detail, the author brings to life the experiences of these older labour migrants by sharing in the life of the hostels as a resident, by observing at close quarters the men's family life on the other side of the Mediterranean as a guest in their homes, and even by accompanying them in their travels by bus, sea, and air. The monograph evaluates several theories of migration against rich qualitative data gathered from multiple methods: biographical narrative and semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and archival research. In the process, it offers a thoughtful contribution to broader debates on what it means for migrants to belong and achieve inclusion in society. This book has been awarded an ‘honourable mention’ in the Khayrallah Prize in Migration Studies, courtesy of the Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies at North Carolina State University. For more information please see: https://lebanesestudies.ncsu.edu/awards/scholarly/2018.php. This book has been nominated for the 2019 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize

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 : Ruxandra Oana Ciobanu,Tineke Fokkema,Mihaela Nedelcu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429602436

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Ageing as a Migrant by Ruxandra Oana Ciobanu,Tineke Fokkema,Mihaela Nedelcu Pdf

Motivated by the steady increase in the population of older migrants worldwide, this book acknowledges the diversity within this population group and provides an interdisciplinary and multi-level approach for studying older migrants’ strategies to overcome vulnerability. The book brings together original research on the topics of diversity among older migrants, social vulnerability, loneliness, (transnational) care and support networks. Based on a review of the growing literature on the topic of older migrants and anchored in the empirical findings discussed in the chapters, the book puts forward a general approach to study older migrants as social actors who develop strategies to surpass vulnerabilities. As documented by empirical research, older migrants mobilise their resources and are able to deal with structural opportunities and restrictions operating at meso and macro levels. These strategies are placed at the intersection between family obligations and resources, social networks, and migration and care regimes. The interdisciplinary and multi-level research in this book acknowledges the heterogeneity within the population of older migrants and puts forward research results that have implications for policies targeting the growing population of older migrants. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Author : Reiko Ogawa,Raymond K.H. Chan,Akiko S. Oishi,Lih-Rong Wang
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9811070245

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Gender, Care and Migration in East Asia by Reiko Ogawa,Raymond K.H. Chan,Akiko S. Oishi,Lih-Rong Wang Pdf

This collection provides a comparative analysis of care arrangements in relation to issues of gender and transnational migration, social policy and labour migration in East Asia. Bridging the key topics of migration and gendered cared work through cross country comparisons, it examines how care work and welfare arrangements have been shaped by national and global forces against the backdrop of changing gender relationships, the rise of female labour force participation, low fertility rates and population aging in East Asia. It particularly addresses the ‘feminization of migration’ which is a salient feature of migration in Asia today as more women from developing countries undertake domestic work and care work in Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong. Addressing the issue of care in relation to employment, care and migration regimes in East Asia and the interaction among welfare regimes, labour markets and work-care balance, this collection provides an up-to-date assessment of gendered transnational migration in the region and sheds light on local and transnational policies and practices which aim to improve the welfare of families and migrant workers.

Author : Marion Repetti,Toni Calasanti,Chris Phillipson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Daatland, Svein Olav,Biggs, Simon
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,5 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 : Dragana Avramov,R. L. Cliquet
Publisher : Garant
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9044117289

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Integrated Policies on Gender Relations, Ageing and Migration in Europe by Dragana Avramov,R. L. Cliquet Pdf

Author : Alistair Hunter
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3319649752

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Retirement Home? Ageing Migrant Workers in France and the Question of Return by Alistair Hunter Pdf

This open access book offers new insights into the ageing-migration nexus and the nature of home. Documenting the hidden world of France’s migrant worker hostels, it explores why older North and West African men continue to live past retirement age in this sub-standard housing. Conventional wisdom holds that at retirement labour migrants ought to instead return to their families in home countries, where their French pensions would have far greater purchasing power. This paradox is the point of departure for a book which transports readers from the banlieues of Paris to the banks of the Senegal River and the villages of the Anti-Atlas. In intimate ethnographic detail, the author brings to life the experiences of these older labour migrants by sharing in the life of the hostels as a resident, by observing at close quarters the men's family life on the other side of the Mediterranean as a guest in their homes, and even by accompanying them in their travels by bus, sea, and air. The monograph evaluates several theories of migration against rich qualitative data gathered from multiple methods: biographical narrative and semi-structured interviews, participant observation, and archival research. In the process, it offers a thoughtful contribution to broader debates on what it means for migrants to belong and achieve inclusion in society.

Author : Ute Karl,Sandra Torres
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : Sandra Torres,Alistair Hunter
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 54,8 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 : Pamela Sharpe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Minority women
ISBN : OCLC:767757066

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Women, Gender, and Labour Migration by Pamela Sharpe Pdf

Author : P. J. Boyle,Keith Halfacree
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Science
ISBN : 041517144X

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Migration and Gender in the Developed World by P. J. Boyle,Keith Halfacree Pdf

The subject of migration has traditionally been analysed through the lens of economic factors. The importance of adopting a gender sensitive perspective to academic work is now generally appreciated. Migration and Gender in the Developed World contains chapters from a diverse range of leading contributors who apply such a perspective to the study of migration in the countries of the developed world. Each chapter demonstrates how migration is highly gendered, with the experiences of women and men often varying markedly in different migration situations. The volume covers a wide range of migration issues and draws out the importance of gender issues in each area, including: dual career households regional migration patterns emigration from Ireland and Hong Kong elderly migration the migration decision-making process and the costs and benefits attached to migration Approaching the subject from a variety of academic traditions including Geography, Sociology and Social Policy, the volume combines both quantitative analysis of factual data and qualitative analysis of interview material to demonstrate the importance of studying migration through gender sensitive ey