Retiring to Spain : : Women's Narratives of Nostalgia, Belonging and Community / / Anya Ahmed.
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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Complete eBook-Package 2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
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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