Ageing and migration in a global context : challenges for welfare states / Marion Repetti, Toni Calasanti, Chris Phillipson, editors.
Repetti, Marion, editor.; Calasanti, Toni M., editor.; Phillipson, Chris, editor.
2021
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Title
Ageing and migration in a global context : challenges for welfare states / Marion Repetti, Toni Calasanti, Chris Phillipson, editors.
ISBN
9783030714420 (electronic bk.)
303071442X (electronic bk.)
9783030714413 (print)
3030714411
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71442-0
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2021.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (vi, 189 pages) : illustrations
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-71442-0 doi
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HQ1061
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.26086/915
Summary
This book brings together two major trends influencing economic and social life: population ageing on the one side, and migration on the other. Both have assumed increasing importance over the course of the 20th and into the 21st century. The book offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on the challenges posed by the globalisation of the life course to welfare states' old age and family policies. Through a variety of case studies, it covers a wide range of migration scenarios: those who migrate in later life; migrants from earlier years who age in place; and old people who hire migrant caregivers. It shows how both local and global economic inequalities intersect to frame interactions between ageing, migration, and family support. Across a wide variety of situations, it highlights that migration can both create risks for older people, but also serve as an answer to ageing-related social, economic, and health risks. The book explores tensions between national and global contexts in experiences of migration across the life course. As such this book offers a fascinating read to scholars, students, practitioners, and policy makers in the fields of aging, migration, life course, and population health.
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Includes index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 19, 2021).
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Repetti, Marion, editor.
Calasanti, Toni M., editor.
Phillipson, Chris, editor.
Series
Life course research and social policies ; v. 13. 2211-7784
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Introduction
Part 1: Support and Care of Immigrants Ageing in Place
1. Migration, transnational ties and intergenerational support: constructions of home and family life
2. Invisible old age: ethnography of a soup kitchen in Switzerland
3. Between care and contract: ageing immigrants, self-appointed helpers and ambiguous belonging in the Danish welfare state
4. Contexts of migration, integration and welfare configurations: The case of Romanian older migrants in Switzerland
5. Care of elderly parents in transnational families
Part 2: Migration as a Response to Support and Care Challenges of Ageing
6. Dependence and Retirement Migration: The Importance of Inequalities
7. Linked lives, dividing borders: From transnational solidarity to family reunification of an older parent
8. Anticipating retirement in the context of migration: The case of Peruvians in Switzerland
9. Elders moving between Turkey and Germany
10. Migration and the welfare state's life-course model in the Global North: A Swiss illustration
11. Migrantship in a public debate on elder care: making sense of media representations with the ethics of care lens
Conclusion.

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