Synopses & Reviews
Little research has been done on expatriates who return to their countries of origin in later lifeandmdash;an important issue in a time of aging populations and increasing mobility. Bringing together studies of older adultsandrsquo; migration patterns in North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, South Asia, and Australia, this collection offers the first comprehensive explanation of how and why they return to their homelands. In the process, it addresses such key factors as the strength of family ties; the quality and cost of health and welfare provisions; and psychological adjustment, belonging, and attachment to place. and#160;
Review
and#8220;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.and#8221;
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.
Synopsis
This timely book contains ground-breaking studies of migration flows of older people in North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, South Asia, and Australia to explain how and why people in later life return to their country of origin.
About the Author
John Percival is a research officer at the Open University, UK.
Table of Contents
List of tables and figures
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Charting the waters: return migration later in life, by John Percival
2 Older immigrants leaving Sweden, by Martin Klinthandauml;ll
3 Place and residence attachments in Canadaandrsquo;s older population, by K. Bruce Newbold
4 Ageing immigrants and the question of return: new answers to an old dilemma? by Claudio Bolzman
5 Caribbean return migration in later life: family issues and transnational experiences as influential pre-retirement factors, by Dennis Conway, Robert B. Potter and Godfrey St. Bernard
6 andlsquo;We belong to the landandrsquo;: British immigrants in Australia contemplating or realising their return andlsquo;homeandrsquo; in later life, by John Percival
7 Diasporic returns to the city: Anglo-Indian and Jewish visits to Calcutta in later life, by Alison Blunt, Jayani Bonnerjee and Noah Hysler-Rubin
8 Returning to andlsquo;rootsandrsquo;: Estonian-Australian child migrants visiting the homeland, by Brad Ruting
9 Ageing in the ancestral homeland: ethno-biographical reflections on return migration in later life, by Anastasia Christou
10 andlsquo;The past is a foreign countryandrsquo;: vulnerability to mental illness among return migrants, by Gerard Leavey and Johanne Eliacin
11 The blues of the ageing retornados: narratives on the return to Chile, by Erik Olsson
12 Concluding reflections, by John Percival
Endnotes
Index