RETIREMENT MIGRATION by Caroline Oliver ( 9780415511612 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

Item Details

Title:

RETIREMENT MIGRATION
PARADOXES OF AGEING

By:

Caroline Oliver

Format:

Paperback

List price:

£41.99

Our price:

£37.79

Discount:

10% off

You save:

£4.20

ISBN 10:

0415511615

ISBN 13:

9780415511612

Availability:

Usually dispatched within 1-3 weeks.

Delivery rates

Stock:

Currently 0 available

Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

22 June, 2012

Series:

Routledge Research in Population and Migration

Pages:

208

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:

Imprint:

Routledge

Returns:

Returnable

Some other items by this author:

CORPORATE BOARDS THAT CREATE VALUE

CORPORATE BOARDS THAT CREATE VALUE (HB)

GETTING STARTED WITH POLICY GOVERNANCE