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Ageing and Migration in a Global Context, Challenges for Welfare States, edited by Marion Repetti, Toni Calasanti, Chris Phillipson

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Ageing and Migration in a Global Context, Challenges for Welfare States, edited by Marion Repetti, Toni Calasanti, Chris Phillipson

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eng

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non fiction

Main title

Ageing and Migration in a Global Context

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electronic resource

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dictionaries

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1264287082

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edited by Marion Repetti, Toni Calasanti, Chris Phillipson

Series statement

Life Course Research and Social Policies,, 13, 2211-7784Springer eBooks.

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Challenges for Welfare States

Summary

This book brings together two major trends influencing economic and social life: population ageing on the one side, and migration on the other. Both have assumed increasing importance over the course of the 20th and into the 21st century. The book offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on the challenges posed by the globalisation of the life course to welfare states' old age and family policies. Through a variety of case studies, it covers a wide range of migration scenarios: those who migrate in later life; migrants from earlier years who age in place; and old people who hire migrant caregivers. It shows how both local and global economic inequalities intersect to frame interactions between ageing, migration, and family support. Across a wide variety of situations, it highlights that migration can both create risks for older people, but also serve as an answer to ageing-related social, economic, and health risks. The book explores tensions between national and global contexts in experiences of migration across the life course. As such this book offers a fascinating read to scholars, students, practitioners, and policy makers in the fields of aging, migration, life course, and population health.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- Part 1: Support and Care of Immigrants Ageing in Place -- 1. Migration, transnational ties and intergenerational support: constructions of home and family life -- 2.Invisible old age: ethnography of a soup kitchen in Switzerland -- 3.Between care and contract: ageing immigrants, self-appointed helpers and ambiguous belonging in the Danish welfare state -- 4.Contexts of migration, integration and welfare configurations: The case of Romanian older migrants in Switzerland -- 5.Care of elderly parents in transnational families -- Part 2: Migration as a Response to Support and Care Challenges of Ageing -- 6. Dependence and Retirement Migration: The Importance of Inequalities -- 7.Linked lives, dividing borders: From transnational solidarity to family reunification of an older parent -- 8.Anticipating retirement in the context of migration: The case of Peruvians in Switzerland -- 9.Elders moving between Turkey and Germany -- 10. Migration and the welfare state's life-course model in the Global North: A Swiss illustration -- 11.Migrantship in a public debate on elder care: making sense of media representations with the ethics of care lens -- Conclusion

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