Retirement Migrants and Dependency : Caring for Sun Seekers （2024. xx, 246 S. XX, 246 p. 8 illus., 3 illus. in color. 210 mm）

Herausgegeben:Calzada, Iné/s

SPRINGER, BERLIN; SPRINGER NATURE SWITZERLAND; PALGRA（2024発売）

SPRINGER, BERLIN; SPRINGER NATURE SWITZERLAND; PALGRA（2024発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 264 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9783031691218

Full Description

This book tells the story of what happens when the "adventure" of living in Spain turns complicated due to the emergence of care needs derived from loss of autonomy. It investigates the care strategies of retirement migrants that must navigate a foreign welfare system and a different "culture of care", and how the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the difficulties they experience accessing care services and information. The book condenses the results of a 4-year (2019-2022) research project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science under the title "Retirement migration and the Social Services" and applies a mixed methods approach that combined statistical analysis of secondary data; telephonic interviews with the coordinators of Social Services in more than 80 Spanish municipalities with a high presence of retirement migrants; ethnographic case studies in four municipalities (observation, interviews, focus groups); and an online survey with social workers.

Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Destination Spain: Sociopolitical Dimensions of a Sociodemographic Phenomenon.- Chapter 3 Theoretical Approaches to Retirement Migration.- Chapter 4 Retired but not Resigned. International Retirement Migrants' Long-Term Care Strategies on the Spanish Mediterranean.- Chapter 5 Care for Elderly European Immigrants in the Spanish Public Social Services System.- Chapter 6 Exploring Language and Communication: Factors Impeding Retirement Migrants Access to Social Services.- Chapter 7 Another Family: Mutual Aid, Friendship and Charities amongst European Retired Migrants in Spain.- Chapter 8 Transnational Family Care and British International Retirement Migrants in Spain.- Chapter 9 Norwegian Snowbirds, Retired Migrants and Offshore Elderly Care In Alicante.- Chapter 10 What comes after retirement migration? Patterns of death and return from Spain.- Chapter 11 Exploring Social Rights Challenges in International Retirement Migration: Agency, Support Networks and Structure.