Research Catalog

Title

Return migration in later life : international perspectives / edited by John Percival.

Publication

Bristol : Policy Press, 2013.

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Additional Authors

Percival, John

Description

x, 262 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Introduction: charting the waters of return migration in later life ~ John Percival; Older immigrants leaving Sweden ~ Martin Klinthall; Place and residence attachments in Canada's older population ~ K. Bruce Newbold; Ageing immigrants and the question of return: new answers to an old dilemma? ~ Claudio Bolzman; Caribbean return migration in later-life: family issues and transnational experiences as influential pre-retirement factors ~ Dennis Conway, Robert B Potter and Godfrey St. Bernard; 'We belong to the land': older British immigrants in Australia contemplating and realising return home ~ John Percival; Diasporic returns to the city: Anglo-Indian and Jewish visits to Calcutta in later life ~ Alison Blunt, Jayani Bonnerjee and Noah Hysler-Rubin; Returning to 'roots': Estonian-Australian child migrants visiting the homeland ~ Brad Ruting; Ageing in the ancestral homeland: ethno-biographical reflections on return migration in later life ~ Anastasia Christou; 'The past is a foreign country': vulnerability to mental illness among return migrants: Gerard Leavey and Joanne Eliacin; The blues of the ageing 'retornados': narratives on the return to Chile ~ Erik Olsson; Concluding reflections ~ John Percival.

Subject

• Emigration and immigration
• Aging > Anthropological aspects
• Return migration
• Aging
• Anthropology, Cultural
• Anthropology, Medical
• Emigrants and Immigrants

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

One. Charting the waters: return migration in later life / John Percival -- two. Older immigrants leaving Sweden / Martin Klinthall -- three. Place and residence attachments in Canada's older population / K. Bruce Newbold -- four. Ageing immigrants and the question of return: new answers to an old dilemma? / Claudio Bolzman -- five. Caribbean return migration in later life: family issues and transnational experiences as influential pre-retirement factors / Godfrey St Bernard -- six. Ẁe belong to the land': British immigrants in Australia contemplating or realising their return h̀ome' in later life / John Percival -- seven. Diasporic returns to the city: Anglo-Indian and Jewish visits to Calcutta in later life / Noah Hysler-Rubin -- eight. Returning to r̀oots': Estonian-Australian child migrants visiting the homeland / Brad Ruting -- nine. Ageing in the ancestral homeland: ethno-biographical reflections on return migration in later life / Anastasia Christou -- ten. T̀he past is a foreign country': vulnerability to mental illness among return migrants / Johanne Eliacin -- eleven. The blues of the ageing retornados: narratives on the return to Chile / Erik Olsson -- twelve. Concluding reflections / John Percival.

ISBN

• 1447301226
• 9781447301226

OCLC

• 833300162
• SCSB-12712697

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library