Retiring to Spain : : Women's Narratives of Nostalgia, Belonging and Community / / Anya Ahmed.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Complete eBook-Package 2015
• VerfasserIn: Ahmed, Anya,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

This book is a study of nostalgia, belonging and community which provides a new theoretical framework for understanding retirement migration. It is the first account of retirement migration that focuses on the voices of retired working-class British women, who are considering either return migration to the UK or permanent/temporary settlement in Spain. Through a narrative approach, we follow their journeys as they seek, recreate and construct community in a new context and their experiences of belonging and non-belonging are unravelled. The book offers a critical perspective, challenging positivistic, essentialist definitions of community.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Retiring to the Costas: British women’s narratives of nostalgia, belonging and community -- Lives in context -- Conceptualising, theorising and narrating retirement migration -- Locating the women: macro, meso and micro contexts -- Boundary spanning and reconstitution: retirement migration and the search for community -- Lived experiences -- Leaving the UK: motives, agency and decision-making processes -- Living in Spain: ‘idyllisation’ and realisation -- Belonging to networks: reconciling agency and positionalities -- Renegotiating family relationships: managing intimacy from a distance -- Locating ‘home’ and community: the end point of plot movement -- Nostalgia, belonging and community: linking time and space -- Afterword -- Notes -- References -- Index