Dora Sampaio is Assistant Professor at the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and a Research Associate with the Max Planck Research Group ‘Ageing in a Time of Mobility’.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Moving, settling, ageing: diversity of migration trajectories.- Chapter 3: Re-grounding: home, family, friendship and intimacy.- Chapter 4: Active ageing and transnational cultures of ageing.- Chapter 5: ‘When you make too many plans, God laughs’: thinking about the future in later life.- Chapter 6: Conclusion: New scripts of contemporary ageing – in search of the ‘good life’

Dora Sampaio is Assistant Professor at the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and a Research Associate with the Max Planck Research Group ‘Ageing in a Time of Mobility’.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Moving, settling, ageing: diversity of migration trajectories.- Chapter 3: Re-grounding: home, family, friendship and intimacy.- Chapter 4: Active ageing and transnational cultures of ageing.- Chapter 5: ‘When you make too many plans, God laughs’: thinking about the future in later life.- Chapter 6: Conclusion: New scripts of contemporary ageing – in search of the ‘good life’

Dora Sampaio is Assistant Professor at the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and a Research Associate with the Max Planck Research Group ‘Ageing in a Time of Mobility’.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Moving, settling, ageing: diversity of migration trajectories.- Chapter 3: Re-grounding: home, family, friendship and intimacy.- Chapter 4: Active ageing and transnational cultures of ageing.- Chapter 5: ‘When you make too many plans, God laughs’: thinking about the future in later life.- Chapter 6: Conclusion: New scripts of contemporary ageing – in search of the ‘good life’