Retirement migration to the Global South : global inequalities and intertwinements /: global inequalities and intertwinements. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Cornelia Schweppe.
• Editors: Schweppe, Cornelia, 1955-
• Contents: 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. A typology.- 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.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 305.26086912091724; Older immigrants -- Developing countries; Retirees -- Developing countries; Developing countries -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects; Developing countries -- Social conditions
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811669996
• Related ISBNs: 9789811669989
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