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Ageing, Gender, and Labour Migration
Lulle, Aija; King, Russell
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Description for Ageing, Gender, and Labour Migration
Hardback. Series: Mobility and Politics. Num Pages: 147 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFN; JFSJ; JHBD; JPP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 324.
This book explores how the real conditions and subjective conceptions of ageing and well-being are transformed when people move from one country to another. Focusing on ageing female migrants from Latvia in the UK and other European countries, this book is based on fifty life-history interviews with women aged 40s-60s. Empirical chapters concentrate on functional well-being in migration, which includes access to the economic citizenship of work, income, pensions, and accommodation, and on psychosocial well-being, and explores Latvian women’s experiences of intimate citizenship in migration. In addition, the authors’ research challenges the trope of vulnerability which generally surrounds the framing ... Read more
This book explores how the real conditions and subjective conceptions of ageing and well-being are transformed when people move from one country to another. Focusing on ageing female migrants from Latvia in the UK and other European countries, this book is based on fifty life-history interviews with women aged 40s-60s. Empirical chapters concentrate on functional well-being in migration, which includes access to the economic citizenship of work, income, pensions, and accommodation, and on psychosocial well-being, and explores Latvian women’s experiences of intimate citizenship in migration. In addition, the authors’ research challenges the trope of vulnerability which generally surrounds the framing ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
147
Condition
New
Series
Mobility and Politics
Number of Pages
139
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137556141
SKU
V9781137556141
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Ref
99-15
About Lulle, Aija; King, Russell
Aija Lulle is Research Fellow at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom, and University of Eastern Finland. She also was founding director of the Centre for Diaspora and Migration Research, University of Latvia. Russell King is Professor of Geography at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom, and Visiting Professor of Migration Studies at Malmo University, Sweden. He is founding director ... Read more
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