Retiring to Spain: Women's Narratives of Nostalgia, Belonging and Community

Anya Ahmed

doi:10.46692/9781447313311

Retiring to Spain

Women's Narratives of Nostalgia, Belonging and Community

The book offers a critical perspective, challenging positivistic, essentialist definitions of lifestyle migration. We follow the journeys of retired working-class British women as they seek, recreate and construct community in a new context.

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Retiring to Spain

Women's Narratives of Nostalgia, Belonging and Community

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Dedication
pp iii-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Acknowledgements
pp vi-vii

Preface
pp viii-x

One - Retiring to the Costas: British women’s narratives of nostalgia, belonging and community
pp 1-14

Part 1 - Lives in context
pp 15-16

Two - Conceptualising, theorising and narrating retirement migration
pp 17-34

Three - Locating the women: macro, meso and micro contexts
pp 35-50

Four - Boundary spanning and reconstitution: retirement migration and the search for community
pp 51-62

Part 2 - Lived experiences
pp 63-64

Five - Leaving the UK: motives, agency and decision-making processes
pp 65-86

Six - Living in Spain: ‘idyllisation’ and realisation
pp 87-104

Seven - Belonging to networks: reconciling agency and positionalities
pp 105-128

Eight - Renegotiating family relationships: managing intimacy from a distance
pp 129-146

Nine - Locating ‘home’ and community: the end point of plot movement
pp 147-160

Conclusion - Nostalgia, belonging and community: linking time and space
pp 161-166

Afterword
pp 167-168

Notes
pp 169-172

References
pp 173-192

Index
pp 193-197

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