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RETIREMENT MIGRATION
PARADOXES OF AGEING |
| By: |
Caroline Oliver |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£150.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0415372712 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780415372718 |
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| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
26 January, 2005 |
| Series: |
Routledge Research in Population and Migration |
| Pages: |
208 |
| Description: |
Gives a critical insight into the various ways aging identities are experienced by a growing number of older people in Western societies in contemporary times. The book presents an ethnographic study of international retirement migration, and offers a different picture of the potentials, seductions and limitations of the lifestyles. |
| Synopsis: |
The book is the first ethnographic study of international retirement migration and offers a sometimes surprising picture of the potentials, seductions and limitations of the lifestyles. People envision retirement as freedom from responsibilities through shedding the restrictive shackles of their former selves in a time of life dedicated to fun, friendship, healthy activity and individual fulfillment. However, as Oliver documents, a number of contradictions underpin the pursuits of such a lifestyle. She shows how retirees must balance time-use to achieve both freedoms and busy social schedules -- their activities, their relationships, and their cultural identities - to balance both the security of nationality with the discovery of the new. Retirement Migration gives a critical insight into the new ways aging identities are experienced by a growing number of older people in Western societies today. |
| Illustrations: |
9 black & white halftones, 1 black & white line drawings |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Routledge |
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Returnable |
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