Senior citizenship? : : Retirement, migration and welfare in the European Union / / Louise Ackers, Peter Dwyer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
• VerfasserIn: Ackers, Louise,; Dwyer, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)
• Other title: Front Matter --; Contents --; List of tables and figures --; List of acronyms --; List of cases and European Union legislation --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; Citizenship, well-being and agency in the European Union --; Shades of citizenship: the legal status of retirement migrants --; Movements to some purpose? --; Health/care, well-being and citizenship --; Money matters --; Moving and caring --; Conclusions: retirement migration: the challenge to social citizenship? --; Bibliography --; Appendix: Methods outline --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781847425485; 9783111196213
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Louise Ackers, Peter Dwyer.

This book charts the development of mobility and welfare rights for those citizens exercising their right to move or return home on retirement under the Free Movement of Persons provisions and explores their experiences of international mobility. It is set within the context of 'Citizenship of the Union'. Senior citizenship? draws on substantial primary research material to: combine detailed analysis of the framework of EU rights shaping social with in-depth qualitative interviews involving retired migrants across six member states (Greece, Portugal, Italy, the United Kingdom, Sweden and Ireland); describe and evaluate an innovative approach to comparative enquiry that combines biographical interviews with legal and qualitative analysis; highlight the diverse nature of retirement migration encompassing the experiences of returning workers, migrating retirees and post retirement returnees. Topics are explored thematically in the context of comparative social policy, raising important and topical issues around the future of social citizenship and the implications of the exercise of agency, in an increasingly global and mobile world.