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Social protection without borders?
— The use of social services by retirement migrants living in Spain | | Author(s) | Ines Calzada |
| Journal title | Journal of Social Policy, vol 47, no 1, January 2018 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, January 2018 |
| Pages | pp 21-37 |
| Source | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279417000101 |
| Keywords | Migration ; Retired persons ; Usage [services] ; Services ; Needs [elderly] ; Qualitative Studies ; Spain. |
| Annotation | The extent to which international retirement migrants (IRMs) living in Spain make use of public care services for older people is examined, also how public officials deal with their demands. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 19 social workers in ten communities characterised by a sizeable population of retirement migrants. The authors found that substantial numbers of retirement migrants remain in Spain well after dependency sets in. This necessitates the development of complex strategies to obtain care by means of social networks, voluntary associations and private care providers. A certain reluctance to engage with Spanish social services may explain the fact that these services are accessed only as a last resort when all other options have failed. However, the entire process of evaluating the needs of, and granting public care services to, retirement migrants is plagued by difficulties. Social workers cite the lack of a common language as a significant obstacle, together with insufficient information on claimants' health, economic and family situations (many IRMs are not registered as residents in Spain). Further barriers to the adequate protection of IRMs are the rules governing Spanish social services as they relate to families, and the recent reductions in public budgets due to the economic crisis. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-180105204 A |
| Classmark | TN: BB6: QLD: I: IK: 3DP: 76S |
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