Retirement Migration: Paradoxes of Ageing Contributor(s): Oliver, Caroline (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415511615 ISBN-13: 9780415511612 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $52.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Human Geography - Self-help | Aging - Social Science | Sociology - General |
Dewey: 306.380 |
Series: Routledge Research in Population and Migration |
Physical Information: 0.44" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.63 lbs) 208 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The book is the first ethnographic study of international retirement migration and offers a sometimes surprising picture of the potentials, seductions and limitations of the lifestyles. People envision retirement as freedom from responsibilities through shedding the restrictive shackles of their former selves in a time of life dedicated to fun, friendship, healthy activity and individual fulfillment. However, as Oliver documents, a number of contradictions underpin the pursuits of such a lifestyle. She shows how retirees must balance time-use to achieve both freedoms and busy social schedules -- their activities, their relationships, and their cultural identities - to balance both the security of nationality with the discovery of the new. Retirement Migration gives a critical insight into the new ways aging identities are experienced by a growing number of older people in Western societies today. |