Routledge
Retirement Migration: Paradoxes of Ageing
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- Caroline Oliver
- Routledge
- Paperback
- 9780415511612
- 9.02 X 5.98 X 0.44 inches
- 0.63 pounds
- Social Science > Human Geography
- English
Secure TransactionBook 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.
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