Handbook on Migration and Ageing

Edited by Sandra Torres, Professor of Sociology and Chair in Social Gerontology, Department of Sociology, Uppsala University, Sweden and Alistair Hunter, Senior Lecturer in Health and Social Policy, University of Glasgow, UK

‘Offering a valuable overview of research on ageing and migration, [...] the Handbook on Migration and Ageing is a timely contribution. It presents a clear agenda for future research on migration and ageing, as shown in the breadth of topics its chapters represent and the recommendations which they contain, supporting the emergence of ageing and migration as a field of scholarship, study and practice.’

• Contents:Preface xvii1 Migration and ageing: the nexus and its backdrop 1Sandra Torres and Alistair HunterPART I CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS2 The life course and migration: the social position of ageing 14Stephen Katz and Amanda Grenier3 Intergenerational relations 25Ken Chih-Yan Sun4 Retirement 35Marion Repetti5 Ethnicity and race 45Sandra Torres6 Super-diversity and intersectionality 57Ruxandra Oana Ciobanu7 Welfare/migration regimes and care chains 67Majella Kilkey8 Integration and transnationalism 76Claudio Bolzman9 Social exclusion 87Hanna MacInnes and Kieran Walsh10 Ageing in place 98Dora Sampaio and Katie Walsh11 Racialization and racism 107Sandra Torres12 Dying and death 118Eva Soom AmmannPART II CATEGORIES AT THE INTERSECTION OF MIGRATIONAND AGEING13 Internal migrants: movers and stayers 129Herbert C. Northcott14 The relationship between migration intensity and age 138Philip Rees15 Older refugees and internally displaced people 151Alistair Hunter and Anita Böcker16 Ageing international labour migrants 162Anika Liversage17 International retirement migrants 172Russell King and Eralba Cela18 Return and circular migration in later life 183Alistair Hunter19 Family reunification migrants and the Zero Generation 196Mihaela Nedelcu20 Left-behind older people 207Audrey Lenoël21 Migrant eldercare workers 217Megha AmrithPART III SCHOLARSHIP FOCUSING ON AGENCY AND VULNERABILITIES22 Older migrants and self-realization projects 229Aija Lulle and Russell King23 Older migrants and socio-economic inequalities 241Zoya Gubernskaya and Tsveta Dobreva24 Older migrants, health and well-being 251Eralba Cela and Elisa Barbiano di Belgiojoso25 Older migrants and mortality 260Matthew Wallace26 Social relations and older migrants 271Kristine J. Ajrouch, Toni C. Antonucci and Rita Xiaochen Hu27 Older migrants as transmitters of values and culture 280Isabelle Albert28 Loneliness among older migrants 290Tineke Fokkema29 Older migrants and dementia 301Ingrid Hellström30 Older migrants and access and usage of care 311Karen M. Kobayashi and Mushira M. Khan31 Older migrants and care recipiency 322Vincent Horn32 Older migrants’ use of information and communication technologies 333Raelene WildingIndex