Migration, Diversity and Inequality in Later Life

This book is the first comprehensive ethnographic study of the diversity of living and ageing experiences of three groups of older migrants return, lifestyle and ageing-in-place labour migrants from a comparative perspective. It explores the motivations, ageing experiences and aspirations of transnational ageing migrants in the context of the Portuguese islands of the Azores and situates the research within debates of the ageing-migration nexus. The book's interdisciplinary approach to transnational embodied and emplaced experiences of ageing facilitates a dialogue between various fields concerned with ageing and mobilities, including geography, anthropology, sociology, social gerontology, social work, and studies of health and wellbeing.

Captures the heterogeneity of everyday experiences of migrants situated in a wide spectrum of aging experiences Examines older migrants' identities and inequalities of aging through an intersectional lens Explores migrant and non-migrant encounters in transnational perspective

Autorentext

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'.

Inhalt
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'