Migration, Diversity and Inequality in Later Life
Migration, Diversity and Inequality in Later Life

Author: Dora Sampaio

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-08-31

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 3031108949

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This book is the first comprehensive ethnographic study of the diversity of living and ageing experiences of three groups of older migrants – return, lifestyle and ageing-in-place labour migrants – from a comparative perspective. It explores the motivations, ageing experiences and aspirations of transnational ageing migrants in the context of the Portuguese islands of the Azores and situates the research within debates of the ageing-migration nexus. The book’s interdisciplinary approach to transnational embodied and emplaced experiences of ageing facilitates a dialogue between various fields concerned with ageing and mobilities, including geography, anthropology, sociology, social gerontology, social work, and studies of health and wellbeing.

Ageing, Diversity and Equality
Ageing, Diversity and Equality

Author: Sue Westwood

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780415786690

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Ageing, Diversity and Equality challenges and provoke the above described normativity and offer an alternative approach which highlights the heterogeneity and diversity of ageing, associated inequalities and their intersections.

Social Divisions and Later Life
Social Divisions and Later Life

Author: Gilleard, Chris

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2020-04-15

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 144733860X

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As the population ages, this book reveals how divides that are apparent through childhood and working life change and are added to in later life. Two internationally renowned experts in ageing look beyond longstanding factors like class, gender and ethnicity to explore new social divisions, including contrasting states of physical fitness and mental health. They show how differences in health and frailty are creating fresh inequalities in later life, with significant implications for the future of our ageing societies. This accessible overview of social divisions is essential reading for those interested in the sociology of ageing and its differences, diversities and inequalities.

Research Handbook on Inequalities in Later Life
Research Handbook on Inequalities in Later Life

Author: Catherine Earl

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2024-06-05

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1789907241

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This Research Handbook critically examines the myriad social and economic inequalities faced by those in later life. Contributors dissect examples from the Global North and South to support a new approach to studying ageing that moves beyond popular discourses.

Handbook on Migration and Ageing
Handbook on Migration and Ageing

Author: Sandra Torres

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2023-07-01

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 1839106778

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This comprehensive Handbook explores the fundamental concepts surrounding the ageing-migration nexus. It is indispensable reading, presenting interdisciplinary research to investigate the unique experiences of older migrants, migrant eldercare workers and older people left behind.

Social Divisions and Later Life
Social Divisions and Later Life

Author: Gilleard, Chris

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2020-04-15

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1447338596

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As the population ages, this book reveals how divides that are apparent through childhood and working life change and are added to in later life. Two internationally renowned experts in ageing look beyond longstanding factors like class, gender and ethnicity to explore new social divisions, including contrasting states of physical fitness and mental health. They show how differences in health and frailty are creating fresh inequalities in later life, with significant implications for the future of our ageing societies. This accessible overview of social divisions is essential reading for those interested in the sociology of ageing and its differences, diversities and inequalities.

Sex and Diversity in Later Life
Sex and Diversity in Later Life

Author: Hafford-Letchfield, Trish

Publisher: Policy Press

Published: 2021-05-27

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1447355407

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This edited volume addresses diversity in sexual and intimate experience later in life (50+) and captures international research and analysis relating to intersectional identities. Contributors explore how being older intersects with differences of ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class.

Lifestyle Migration
Lifestyle Migration

Author: Michaela Benson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-06

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 131710515X

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Relatively affluent individuals from various corners of the globe are increasingly choosing to migrate, spurred on by the promise of a better and more fulfilling way of life within their destination. Despite its increasing scale, migration academics have yet to consolidate and establish lifestyle migration as a subfield of theoretical enquiry, until now. This volume offers a dynamic and holistic analysis of contemporary lifestyle migrations, exploring the expectations and aspirations which inform and drive migration alongside the realities of life within the destination. It also recognizes the structural conditions (and constraints) which frame lifestyle migration, laying the groundwork for further intellectual enquiry. Through rich empirical case studies this volume addresses this important and increasingly common form of migration in a manner that will interest scholars of mobility, migration, lifestyle and culture across the social sciences.

Ageing, Diversity and Equality
Ageing, Diversity and Equality

Author: Sue Westwood

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-31

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 1351851314

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Current understandings of ageing and diversity are impoverished in three main ways. Firstly, with regards to thinking about what inequalities operate in later life there has been an excessive preoccupation with economic resources. On the other hand, less attention has been paid to cultural norms and values, other resources, wider social processes, political participation and community engagement. Secondly, in terms of thinking about the ‘who’ of inequality, this has so far been limited to a very narrow range of minority populations. Finally, when considering the ‘how’ of inequality, social gerontology’s theoretical analyses remain under-developed. The overall effect of these issues is that social gerontology remains deeply embedded in normative assumptions which serve to exclude a wide range of older people. Ageing, Diversity and Equality aims to challenge and provoke the above described normativity and offer an alternative approach which highlights the heterogeneity and diversity of ageing, associated inequalities and their intersections. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781351851329, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 licence.