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Retirement migration
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- ISBN 9781447313304
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jul 2015
- Publisher: Bristol University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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This book is a study of nostalgia, belonging and community which provides a new theoretical framework for understanding retirement migration. It is the first account of retirement migration that focuses on the voices of retired working-class British women, who are considering either return migration to the UK or permanent/temporary settlement in Spain. Through a narrative approach, we follow their journeys as they seek, recreate and construct community in a new context and their experiences of belonging and non-belonging are unravelled. The book offers a critical perspective, challenging positivistic, essentialist definitions of community.
Anya Ahmed is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Salford, UK, with a background in social policy and sociology. She researches and writes about economic, forced and lifestyle migration and the experiences of less heard groups in societies. She is interested in how constructions of different forms of belonging and community reflect social change and continuity.
