This book is the first comprehensive ethnographic study of the diversity of living and ageing experiences of three groups of older migrants – return, lifestyle and ageing-in-place labour migrants – from a comparative perspective. It explores the motivations, ageing experiences and aspirations of transnational ageing migrants in the context of the Portuguese islands of the Azores and situates the research within debates of the ageing-migration nexus. The book’s interdisciplinary approach to transnational embodied and emplaced experiences of ageing facilitates a dialogue between various fields concerned with ageing and mobilities, including geography, anthropology, sociology, social gerontology, social work, and studies of health and wellbeing.
Author(s): Dora Sampaio
Series: Global Diversities
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 194
City: Cham
Acknowledgments
Contents
List of Figures
1 Introduction
1.1 Ageing: Biological Fact, Social and Cultural Construct
1.2 Migrant Categories: Utility and Limitations
1.2.1 Ageing-In-Place Labour Migrants
1.2.2 Lifestyle Migrants
1.2.3 Return Migrants
1.3 Transnational Ageing, Diversity and Inequality
1.4 The Azores: Ageing and Migration at a Crossroads
1.5 A Multi-Sited Ethnography of Transnational Ageing
1.6 Introducing the Portrayals
1.6.1 Ageing-In-Place Labour Migrants
1.6.1.1 Mayra
1.6.1.2 Davit
1.6.1.3 Lucas
1.6.2 Lifestyle Migrants
1.6.2.1 Carrie
1.6.2.2 Jessica and Ethan
1.6.2.3 Markus and Klaudia
1.6.3 Return Migrants
1.6.3.1 Albertino
1.6.3.2 Silvina
1.6.3.3 Fernando
1.7 Outline of the Book
References
2 Moving, Settling, Ageing: Diversity of Migration Trajectories
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The Natural Environment
2.3 ‘Homecoming’ and Place Attachment
2.4 Work Opportunities
2.5 Conclusion
References
3 Re-grounding: Home, Family, Friendship and Intimacy
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Home-Making in Later Life
3.3 Family, Friendship and a Sense of Community
3.4 Intimacy and Romantic Relationships
3.5 Conclusion
References
4 Active Ageing and Transnational Cultures of Ageing
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Activity and Strategic Ageing
4.3 Transnational Cultures of Ageing
4.3.1 Care in Later Life
4.3.2 Mindset and Work Ethic
4.3.3 Self-Care and the Ageing Body
4.4 Conclusion
References
5 ‘When You Make Too Many Plans, God Laughs’: Thinking About the Future in Later Life
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Thinking About Future (Im)mobilities
5.2.1 Health and Aged Care
5.2.2 Family and Friendships
5.2.3 Place Attachment
5.2.4 Financial Security and Welfare
5.3 Death, Gender and ‘Living for Today’
5.4 Conclusion
References
6 Conclusion: Scripts of Contemporary Ageing—In Search of the ‘Good Life’
6.1 Diversity and Transnational Inequalities: Ageing and Migration at a Crossroads
6.2 Achieving the ‘Good Life’ in Later Life
References
Index
