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

• Superior document: IMISCOE Research Series
• Author: Hunter, Alistair.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2018.; ©2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: IMISCOE Research Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (217 pages)

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.