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Retirement Migration: Paradoxes of Ageing

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ISBN-10: 1134192819

ISBN-13: 9781134192816

Edition: N/A

Authors: Caroline Oliver

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Description:

The book is the first ethnographic study of international retirement migration and offers a sometimes surprising picture of the potentials, seductions and limitations of the lifestyles. People envision retirement as freedom from responsibilities through shedding the restrictive shackles of their former selves in a time of life dedicated to fun, friendship, healthy activity and individual fulfillment. However, as Oliver documents, a number of contradictions underpin the pursuits of such a lifestyle. She shows how retirees must balance time-use to achieve both freedoms and busy social schedules -- their activities, their relationships, and their cultural identities – to balance both the…    
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Book details

Publisher: Routledge
Binding: E-Book 
Pages: 208