Ageing, gender, and labour migration / Aija Lulle, Russell King.
This volume 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, it is based on fifty life-history interviews with wome...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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Table of Contents:
- Series Editors' Foreword ; Contents; Chapter 1: Ageing Migrants: A New Research Challenge ; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Towards a Typology of Ageing and Migration, and the Specific Category of Ageing Labour Migrants; 1.3 Older-Age Female Migration from Post-ƯSoviet Latvia; 1.4 Methodology; 1.5 Key Research Questions and Outline of the Book; Notes; References; Chapter 2: Ageing, Gender, and Migration: Theorising Entwined Becomings ; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Migration and Gender; 2.3 Where Is Ageing in Migration Theories?; 2.4 Life Course, Ageing, Gender, and Migration.
- 2.5 Neoliberal Discourses of Ageing and Personal Freedom2.6 For Better Ageing: Well-Being While Ageing; 2.7 Claiming Embodied Citizenship; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 3: Functional Well-Being and Economic Citizenship ; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Work Before in Latvia; 3.3 Start Living Your Life Elsewhere: Liquid Migration; 3.4 Income Through Hard Work: The Need for Good Health and Physical Strength; 3.5 Practising Economic Citizenship: Looking for a New Job, Asking for Better Pay; 3.6 Suspended Citizenship: Earning for Old Age; 3.7 The End-Game: Return to Latvia?; Notes; References.
- Chapter 4: Psychosocial Well-Being, Erotic Agency, and Intimate Citizenship 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Feeling Freedom; 4.3 Relationships with Family Members and Friends; 4.4 Claiming a Free Body: Leisure and Pastimes; 4.5 Erotic Agency and Psychosocial Well-Being; Conclusion; References; Chapter 5: Conclusions, Discussion, and Policy Implications ; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Economic Citizenship and Functional Well-Being; 5.3 Intimate Citizenship and Psychosocial Well-Being; 5.4 Future Migration Trajectories; 5.5 Discussion: Core-Periphery Dynamics and Migration Flows.
- 5.6 The Knowledgeable Ageing Migrant as an EU Citizen5.7 Policy Implications; Note; References; Index.