Ageing, Gender, and Labour Migration (eBook)

Aija Lulle, Russell King (Autoren)

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2016 | 1st ed. 2015
139 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan US (Verlag)
9781137556158 (ISBN)

Infos

This book explores how the real conditions and subjective conceptions of ageing and well-being are transformed when people move from one country to another. Focusing on ageing female migrants from Latvia in the UK and other European countries, this book is based on fifty life-history interviews with women aged 40s-60s. Empirical chapters concentrate on functional well-being in migration, which includes access to the economic citizenship of work, income, pensions, and accommodation, and on psychosocial well-being, and explores Latvian women’s experiences of intimate citizenship in migration. In addition, the authors’ research challenges the trope of vulnerability which generally surrounds the framing of older migrants’ lives. The study’s findings offer policy-makers insights into the realities of ageing working migrants and advocates for a more inclusive transnational citizenship, better working conditions, and ongoing care arrangements for older migrants post-retirement, either abroador back home.

Autor

Aija Lulle is Research Fellow at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom, and University of Eastern Finland. She also was founding director of the Centre for Diaspora and Migration Research, University of Latvia. Russell King is Professor of Geography at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom, and Visiting Professor of Migration Studies at Malmo University, Sweden. He is founding director of the Sussex Centre for Migration Research and author of many books and papers on migration-related themes.

Inhalt

1. AGEING MIGRANTS: A NEW RESEARCH CHALLENGE1.1 Introduction1.2 Towards a typology of ageing and migration; and the specific category of ageing labour migrants.1.3 Older-age female migration from post-Soviet Latvia1.4 Methodology1.5 Key research questions and outline of the book2. AGEING, GENDER AND MIGRATION: THEORISING ENTWINED BECOMINGS2.1 Introduction2.2 Migration and gender2.3 Where is ageing in migration theories?2.4 Life-course, ageing, gender and migration2.5 Neoliberal discourses of ageing and personal freedom2.6 For better ageing: well-being while ageing2.7 Claiming embodied citizenship2.8 Conclusion3. FUNCTIONAL WELL-BEING AND ECONOMIC CITIZENSHIP3.1 Introduction3.2 Work before in Latvia3.3 Start living your life elsewhere: liquid migration3.4 Income through hard work: the need for good health and physical strength3.5 Practising economic citizenship: looking for a new job, asking for better pay3.6 Suspended citizenship: earning for old age3.7 The end-game: return to Latvia?4. PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING, EROTIC AGENCY AND INTIMATE CITIZENSHIP4.1 Introduction4.2 Feeling freedom4.3 Relationships with family members and friends4.4 Claiming a free body: leisure and pastimes4.5 Erotic agency and psychological well-being4.6 Conclusion5. CONCLUSIONS, DISCUSSION, AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS5.1 Introduction5.2 Economic citizenship and functional well-being5.3 Intimate citizenship and psychosocial well-being5.4 Future migration trajectories5.5 Discussion: core-periphery dynamics and migration flows5.6 The knowledgeable ageing migrant as an EU citizen5.7 Policy implications

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.8.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Mobility & Politics
• Reihe/Serie: Mobility & Politics
• Zusatzinfo: VIII, 139 p.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Ageing • Ageing Migrant • Economic citizenship • Embodied citizenship • Erotic agency • EU citizen • Female migration • Functional well-being • Gender • Intimate citizenship • Labour migrant • Labour Migration • Latvia • liquid migration • post-Soviet Latvia • Psychosocial • Psychosocial well-bing
• ISBN-13: 9781137556158 / 9781137556158