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Return Migration in Later Life: International Perspectives

Return Migration in Later Life: International Perspectives

by JohnPercival (Editor)

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    Hardcover 2013

    $166.58
Synopsis

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. The book examines in detail a range of themes affecting return migrations, including: family ties, obligations and their emotive strengths; comparative quality, and cost, of health and welfare provision in host and home countries; older age transitions and cultural affinity with homeland; and psychological adjustment, belonging and attachment to place.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 272
 Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 24 Jul 2013
ISBN 10: 1447301226
ISBN 13: 9781447301226

Media Reviews
Elderly migrants returning to their countries of origin often do so with idealistic expectations. However, all of them find that the country they left is not the same as the one to which they returned. Some adjust well to the changes that have taken place in their absence, but others experience stressful readjustment processes. This book includes 12 chapters covering a diversity of these challenging adjustments. . . . Recommended. --T. D. Boswell, University of Miami Choice
Elderly migrants returning to their countries of origin often do so with idealistic expectations. However, all of them find that the country they left is not the same as the one to which they returned. Some adjust well to the changes that have taken place in their absence, but others experience stressful readjustment processes. This book includes 12 chapters covering a diversity of these challenging adjustments. . . . Recommended. --T. D. Boswell, University of Miami Choice
Author Bio
John Percival is Research Associate at Bristol University, UK, and has a background in social work and social gerontology. He has extensive research experience in qualitative and ethnographic studies of older people's health, housing and social care requirements and priorities. He has led work on social inclusion in connection with sight loss, the benefits and disadvantages of assistive technologies, and end-of-life care in domestic settings and care homes.