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Northern European retired residents in nine southern European areas
— characteristics, motivations and adjustment | | Author(s) | María Angeles Casado-Díaz, Claudia Kaiser, Anthony M Warnes |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 24, part 3, May 2004 |
| Pages | pp 353-381 |
| Source | http://journals.cambridge.org/ |
| Keywords | Migration ; Retired persons ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Retirement areas ; Social surveys ; Europe ; Research Reviews. |
| Annotation | Northern European retirement residence in the southern European sunbelt has grown strongly, and its forms have rapidly changed in the last 20 years. However, standard demographic and social statistical sources provide no information about the flows, the migrants, or their increasingly mobile and complex residential patterns. Considerable primary research has recently been undertaken into the causes, conditions, experiences and consequences of international retirement migration (IRM) by investigators from Germany, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. Many collaborated when designing their studies and instruments, and all have subsequently worked together in a European Science Foundation Scientific Network. This paper compares the findings of six systematic social surveys in eight regions of southern Europe and the Canary Islands: all have tackled similar research questions with similar methods and instruments. It presents interpretations of several comparative tables compiled from their original data, with a focus on the socio-economic backgrounds, motivations and behaviour of the various migrant groups and their relationship with the host and home countries. The paper presents new findings about the typical and variant forms of IRM, and additional understanding of the heterogeneity of the retirees of different nations and in the several regions. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040514203 A |
| Classmark | TN: BB6: F: RO: 3F: 74: 3A:6KC |
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