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2 Retirement migration
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Abstract
This chapter provides a deeper understanding of the social and economic characteristics of international retirement migration. It explores the diverse forms that retirement migration can take, including short-term and permanent versions, and scholars’ increased interest in these trends since the early 1980s. We describe the themes that appear the most in the literature on international retirement migration, such as lifestyle factors, ease of travel, transnational family ties and the globalisation of the health, housing and leisure markets targeting retirees in richer countries. We then develop interlinkages between retirement migration and precarity, and show how some scholars have explored this aspect since the early 2000s. Finally, we address ageism and how this shapes retirees’ living conditions in the Global North and, possibly, in international retirement migration contexts. We end the chapter by presenting our study and the sample, and briefly describing the places where we conducted the interviews in Spain, Costa Rica and Mexico.
Abstract
This chapter provides a deeper understanding of the social and economic characteristics of international retirement migration. It explores the diverse forms that retirement migration can take, including short-term and permanent versions, and scholars’ increased interest in these trends since the early 1980s. We describe the themes that appear the most in the literature on international retirement migration, such as lifestyle factors, ease of travel, transnational family ties and the globalisation of the health, housing and leisure markets targeting retirees in richer countries. We then develop interlinkages between retirement migration and precarity, and show how some scholars have explored this aspect since the early 2000s. Finally, we address ageism and how this shapes retirees’ living conditions in the Global North and, possibly, in international retirement migration contexts. We end the chapter by presenting our study and the sample, and briefly describing the places where we conducted the interviews in Spain, Costa Rica and Mexico.
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
