8 Retirement migration, precarity and age
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Marion Repetti
Abstract
This chapter returns to the research issues that frame the book and provides a summary of our findings. We highlight the two main observations on which our study drew, namely, the fact that retirement migration is a growing phenomenon and that although precarity increasingly affects older people’s lives, existing literature on retirement migration has not focused on this. The chapter underscores the links in this study between retirement migration and economic insecurity, and how ageism shapes this. In addition, we highlight the role of ageism in the risk of social exclusion that older people face and how retirement migrants find the social context in their new country to be more inclusive of older people that in their home states. The chapter returns to the findings regarding the health and assistance precarity of retirement migrants, as well as how welfare states in the home and host countries shape experiences of migration, and the kinds of security that they seek. The chapter ends with a discussion of the dynamic nature of precarity and the implications of this observation for the future.
Abstract
This chapter returns to the research issues that frame the book and provides a summary of our findings. We highlight the two main observations on which our study drew, namely, the fact that retirement migration is a growing phenomenon and that although precarity increasingly affects older people’s lives, existing literature on retirement migration has not focused on this. The chapter underscores the links in this study between retirement migration and economic insecurity, and how ageism shapes this. In addition, we highlight the role of ageism in the risk of social exclusion that older people face and how retirement migrants find the social context in their new country to be more inclusive of older people that in their home states. The chapter returns to the findings regarding the health and assistance precarity of retirement migrants, as well as how welfare states in the home and host countries shape experiences of migration, and the kinds of security that they seek. The chapter ends with a discussion of the dynamic nature of precarity and the implications of this observation for the future.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- Series editors’ preface iv
- List of tables vi
- Acknowledgements vii
- Introduction 1
- Retirement migration 13
- Precarity and the welfare state in home and host countries 28
- Escaping economic precarity 46
- Escaping ageism 67
- Relying on global privileges 89
- Health and assistance precarity in later life 104
- Retirement migration, precarity and age 118
- Notes 131
- References 132
- Index 146
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- Series editors’ preface iv
- List of tables vi
- Acknowledgements vii
- Introduction 1
- Retirement migration 13
- Precarity and the welfare state in home and host countries 28
- Escaping economic precarity 46
- Escaping ageism 67
- Relying on global privileges 89
- Health and assistance precarity in later life 104
- Retirement migration, precarity and age 118
- Notes 131
- References 132
- Index 146
