Ageing as a Migrant

Vulnerabilities, Agency and Policy Implications

Ruxandra Oana Ciobanu, Tineke Fokkema, Mihaela Nedelcu

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English

Routledge
30 September 2020

Migration, immigration & emigration; Ethnic studies; Sociology; Social work; Health & Self-Help

Series: Research in Ethnic and Migration Studies

Motivated by the steady increase in the population of older migrants worldwide, this book acknowledges the diversity within this population group and provides an interdisciplinary and multi-level approach for studying older migrants’ strategies to overcome vulnerability.

The book brings together original research on the topics of diversity among older migrants, social vulnerability, loneliness, (transnational) care and support networks. Based on a review of the growing literature on the topic of older migrants and anchored in the empirical findings discussed in the chapters, the book puts forward a general approach to study older migrants as social actors who develop strategies to surpass vulnerabilities. As documented by empirical research, older migrants mobilise their resources and are able to deal with structural opportunities and restrictions operating at meso and macro levels. These strategies are placed at the intersection between family obligations and resources, social networks, and migration and care regimes.

The interdisciplinary and multi-level research in this book acknowledges the heterogeneity within the population of older migrants and puts forward research results that have implications for policies targeting the growing population of older migrants. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Edited by: Ruxandra Oana Ciobanu, Tineke Fokkema, Mihaela Nedelcu
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 349g
ISBN: 9780367661106
ISBN 10: 0367661101
Series: Research in Ethnic and Migration Studies
Pages: 180
Publication Date: 30 September 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Ruxandra Oana Ciobanu is Assistant Professor in the Institute of Demography and Socioeconomics, and research group leader in the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Gerontology and Vulnerability, at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Her research interests include older migrants, international migration, the welfare mix, transnational processes, and qualitative research methods. Tineke Fokkema is Senior Researcher at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, and Professor of Ageing, Families and Migration at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The central topic of her research is the ageing of populations, in particular the social wellbeing of (migrant) older adults and the patterns of intergenerational solidarity and exchange. Mihaela Nedelcu is titular Professor in the Institute of Sociology at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, and project leader within the National Center of Competence in Research ""NCCR-on the move"". Her research areas include transnational ageing, intergenerational solidarities within transnational families, and migratory dynamics in the digital era."