Retirement Migration to the Global South

Global Inequalities and Entanglements

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

This book examines the increasing evidence of international retirement migration (IRM) to countries of the Global South. IRM to countries of the Global South points to the increasing global interconnectedness of aging in relatively affluent countries and raises critical questions about its interrelations with global inequalities.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-03-17
Mått:148 x 210 x 23 mm
Vikt:484 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:250
Förlag:Springer Verlag, Singapore
ISBN:9789811669989

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Cornelia Schweppe, PhD, is a Full Professor of Social Pedagogy at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (Germany), Institute of Education.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Retirement migration to the Global South. Global inequalities and entanglements.- Part I: Migrating to the Global South. Making sense of change, differences and social inequalities.- In search of a place like me. Making sense of character, boundaries and later-life mobility pathways in Southeast Asia.- Coloniality and Retirement Migration to the Global South.- A "Mexican Home". Defining Belonging Through Taste Among Retired Migrants in Chapala, Mexico.- Part II: Retirement migrants and their relationships with the local population: Dominations and ambiguities.- Social relationships of retirement migrants in Kenya with the local population. On devaluation practices, re-education efforts, and disappointments.- “Between heaven and hell”: Love, Sex and Intimacy International retirement migration of older men to Thailand.- Transnational social relationships of international retirement migrants in Morocco. Atypology.- Part III: Intertwinements of international retirement migrations: The state, markets and aging populations.- International Living (and Dying). U.S. Retirement Migration to Mexico.- Falling through the net of social protection. The precarity of retirement migrants in Thailand.- Care as right and care as commodity. Positioning international retirement migration in Thailand’s old age care regime.- Looking back to go forward: a comparative engagement with International Retirement Migration in the Global South.