Return Migration in Later Life: International Perspectives

doi:10.46692/9781447301233

The main objective of this edited volume is to explore the motivations, decision making processes, and consequences, when older people consider or accomplish return migration to their place of origin; and also to raise the public policy profile of this increasingly important subject.

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii
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List of tables and figures
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Notes on contributors
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one - Charting the waters: return migration in later life
pp 1-20
- By John Percival
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two - Older immigrants leaving Sweden
pp 21-42
- By Martin Klinthäll
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three - Place and residence attachments in Canada’s older population
pp 43-66
- By K Bruce Newbold
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four - Ageing immigrants and the question of return: new answers to an old dilemma?
pp 67-88
- By Claudio Bolzman
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five - Caribbean return migration in later life: family issues and transnational experiences as influential pre-retirement factors
pp 89-112
- By Dennis Conway, Robert B Potter, Godfrey St Bernard
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six - ‘We belong to the land’: British immigrants in Australia contemplating or realising their return ‘home’ in later life
pp 113-140
- By John Percival
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seven - Diasporic returns to the city: Anglo-Indian and Jewish visits to Calcutta in later life
pp 141-160
- By Alison Blunt, Jayani Bonnerjee, Noah Hysler-Rubin
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eight - Returning to ‘roots’: Estonian-Australian child migrants visiting the homeland
pp 161-178
- By Brad Ruting
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nine - Ageing in the ancestral homeland: ethno-biographical reflections on return migration in later life
pp 179-194
- By Anastasia Christou
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ten - ‘The past is a foreign country’: vulnerability to mental illness among return migrants
pp 195-218
- By Gerard Leavey, Johanne Eliacin
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eleven - The blues of the ageing retornados: narratives on the return to Chile
pp 219-240
- By Erik Olsson
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twelve - Concluding reflections
pp 241-248
- By John Percival
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Endnotes
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Index
pp 253-262
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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Contents
pp iii-iv

List of tables and figures
pp v-v

Notes on contributors
pp vi-ix

Acknowledgements
pp x-x

one - Charting the waters: return migration in later life
pp 1-20

two - Older immigrants leaving Sweden
pp 21-42

three - Place and residence attachments in Canada’s older population
pp 43-66

four - Ageing immigrants and the question of return: new answers to an old dilemma?
pp 67-88

five - Caribbean return migration in later life: family issues and transnational experiences as influential pre-retirement factors
pp 89-112

six - ‘We belong to the land’: British immigrants in Australia contemplating or realising their return ‘home’ in later life
pp 113-140

seven - Diasporic returns to the city: Anglo-Indian and Jewish visits to Calcutta in later life
pp 141-160

eight - Returning to ‘roots’: Estonian-Australian child migrants visiting the homeland
pp 161-178

nine - Ageing in the ancestral homeland: ethno-biographical reflections on return migration in later life
pp 179-194

ten - ‘The past is a foreign country’: vulnerability to mental illness among return migrants
pp 195-218

eleven - The blues of the ageing retornados: narratives on the return to Chile
pp 219-240

twelve - Concluding reflections
pp 241-248

Endnotes
pp 249-252

Index
pp 253-262

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