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Retirement Home? Ageing Migrant Workers in France and the Question of Return.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hunter, Alistair.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2018.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:IMISCOE Research Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Chapter 1: Journey's End? Old Age in France's Migrant Worker Hostels
  • 1.1 Post-war Migrants to Western Europe: Settling into Old Age
  • 1.2 France's Migrant Worker Hostels and the Question of Late-in-Life Return
  • 1.3 Purpose, Title and Structure of the Book
  • References
  • Chapter 2: Points of Departure: Geographical, Historical and Theoretical Contexts
  • 2.1 Contexts of Emigration
  • 2.2 The Three Ages of the Hostels: Sonacotral-Sonacotra-Adoma
  • 2.3 Theories of Migration and Return
  • 2.4 Methods at the Margins
  • References
  • Chapter 3: Your Papers, Please: The Temporal and Territorial Demands of Welfare State Inclusion
  • 3.1 Timetabled Lives at Retirement
  • 3.2 Migration, the Welfare State, and Non-standard Biographies
  • 3.3 Suspect Mobility, Enforcement and Tactics of Evasion
  • 3.4 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 4: Home/Sick: The Health-Migration Order
  • 4.1 Health and Mobility in Later Life
  • 4.2 Inclusion in the French Healthcare System
  • 4.3 Non-standard Biographies Impede Healthcare
  • 4.4 Healthcare Provision in Countries of Origin
  • 4.5 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 5: Return to Sender: Remittances, Communication and Family Conflict
  • 5.1 Breadwinner Migrants: Remittance Sending as a Way of Life
  • 5.2 Continued Dependency on Remittances Past Retirement
  • 5.3 Gender, Generation and Conflict in Transnational Families
  • 5.4 Communication Technologies: Impeding Not Empowering Return
  • 5.5 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 6: Getting One's Bearings: Re-integration in the Home Community
  • 6.1 Sketches of Dembancané (Senegal) and Tiznit (Morocco)
  • 6.2 Physical Bearings: Constructing a Place to Return to
  • 6.3 Re-integration and the Role of Hometown Associations
  • 6.4 Social Bearings: Negotiations of Status and 'Mentality'.
  • 6.5 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 7: Loss of Autonomy, Dying and the Penultimate Voyage
  • 7.1 Returning Home: The Penultimate Voyage
  • 7.2 Staying in the Hostel: Home Care
  • 7.3 Late-in-life Family Reunification
  • 7.4 Moving to a Care Home: The Last Resort
  • 7.5 Last-Minute Returns and Posthumous Returns
  • 7.6 Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 8: Conclusion: The Returns from Theory and a New Approach to Home
  • 8.1 Explaining the Puzzle: The Returns from Theory
  • 8.2 A New Approach to Home: Domicile and Inclusion in Social Systems
  • 8.3 Concluding Prospects: Steering for Home?
  • References
  • Appendix: Notes on Method
  • Further Reading
  • Index.

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