Pills in paradise: Exploring international lifestyle and retirement migrants’ perceptions of the pharmaceutical sector on Cozumel Island, Mexico

Hoffman, Leon; Crooks, Valorie A.; Snyder, Jeremy

doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2017.08.004

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“…At home, these older Canadian travellers typically undertake preparatory types of economic activities such as purchasing travel health insurance, having RVs serviced, and buying goods that they plan to take abroad (Canadian Snowbird Association 2019;Pickering et al 2021;Snowbird Advisor 2021). Economies in popular destinations support accommodation, recreational, health, social, and other needs brought on while living abroad and undertaking activities associated with the retirement migration lifestyle (Sastry 1992;Bennett 1996;Desrosiers-Lauzon 2009;Hoffman et al 2017). While this separation of economic activities between home and destination communities may work well under normal travel and border access circumstances, the COVID-19 pandemic served to show the vulnerability of those communities that rely on seasonal visits from older Canadians to changed travel inflows.…”

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Altering consumer practices, facing uncertainties, and seeking stability: Canadian news media framings of international retirement migrants during the COVID‐19 pandemic

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Crooks

Snyder

2022

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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The lives and seasonal movements of Canadian international retirement migrants were greatly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and measures put in place to manage the spread of the virus.• Newspaper coverage of Canadian international retirement migrants from 2020 framed them as altering consumer practices, facing uncertainties, and seeking stability in response. • These responses form an interesting dualism because the COVID-19 pandemic introduced both challenges and opportunities for Canadian international retirement migrants in 2020.International retirement migration involves the seasonal relocation of older adults to destinations abroad. For Canadians, this is typically done to escape winter at home in favour of warmer weather elsewhere. In this paper, we explore how Canadian newspapers chronicled the changes associated with managing the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, including border measures and calls to avoid non-essential travel, and how they impacted international retirement migrants and their movements. We specifically present the findings of a framing analysis conducted of 187 newspaper articles published in 2020, identified through the Canadian Newsstream Database. The framing analysis identified three ways in which Canadian international retirement migrants were discussed in relation to the pandemic and the changed spatiotemporal realities that affected their transnational movements. First, they are a group who altered their consumer practices, which had economic impacts at home and in their usual seasonal destinations. Second, they are a group who faced considerable uncertainty with regard to travel and movement, among other things, as the pandemic unfolded in 2020. Finally, Canadian international retirement migrants sought stability in a number of ways, both in terms of their social networks and living arrangements at home and abroad.

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Altering consumer practices, facing uncertainties, and seeking stability: Canadian news media framings of international retirement migrants during the COVID‐19 pandemic

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Crooks

Snyder

2022

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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“…Aquí cabe resaltar que en México el flujo migratorio internacional más significativo es el de origen estadounidense, pues el INM, hasta diciembre del año 2020 tenía el registro de 83 mil 957 estadounidenses registrados como residentes en todo el país (INM, 2020). 3 Sobre este tema aún hay mucho por investigar, pues son hasta ahora relativamente pocas las investigaciones de relevancia sobre esta población en México, vista desde un enfoque de migración internacional (Almada, 2006;Lizárraga, 2012Lizárraga, y 2019Palma, 1990;Truly, 2002;Sunil et al, 2007;Croucher, 2009;Lardiés, 2011;Melton, 1997;Bantman-Masum, 2015;Hoffman, Crooks y Snyder, 2017;Casas et al, 2013). Sin embargo, actualmente se observa una creciente movilidad humana en esta dirección y sus participantes son principalmente personas en edad avanzada que buscan espacios de amenidad y climas Omar Lizárraga benéficos, por lo que las investigaciones sobre el tema podrían aumentar.…”

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La inmigración “azucarada”. Parejas binacionales heterógamas en el mercado matrimonial de Mazatlán, Sinaloa, México

Lizárraga

2022

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El presente artículo aborda el tema de los matrimonios binacionales en los que el hombre es inmigrante estadounidense y la mujer es mexicana. Por medio de una aproximación etnográfica al fenómeno, se brindan elementos para comprender la composición socioeconómica y demográfica en este tipo de parejas. El estudio se delimitó en los matrimonios heterógamos, en los que el hombre estadounidense, es por lo menos diez años de edad mayor que la mujer. Se encontró que, en estas parejas, el hombre cuenta con mayor nivel educativo e ingresos económicos. Es un estudio exploratorio que busca comprender las causas que llevan a estas uniones civiles en el mercado matrimonial. Se utiliza una metodología cualitativa y virtual para acercarse al fenómeno, para lo que se ha contactado con trece parejas binacionales heterógamas en Mazatlán, Sinaloa, México.

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“… IEEE Access Telecommunications Wallis ( 2017 ) The authors study how a popular magazine influences rural geographic mobility. Rural Society Sociology Hoffman et al ( 2017 ) This study explores the lifestyle of people on the Island of Cozumel, Mexico, with regard to health benefits of its climate and retirement. Health & place Public, Environmental & Occupational Health Source: The authors …”

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Digital communication strategies used by private companies, entrepreneurs, and public entities to attract long-stay tourists: a review

Lacárcel

Huete

2023

Int Entrep Manag J

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Globalization and the changes in the technological and social industries have facilitated international mobility in such a way that the distinctions between tourism and other forms of mobility closer to migration have practically become blurred. Improvements in digital communication have promoted people’s search for a better quality of life in terms of health, work, leisure, and other aspects. New forms of communication have started to gradually displace the more conventional media. In this context, private companies, entrepreneurs, and public entities have grown aware of the importance of digital communication to achieve a greater scope in their population attraction policies. In this context, the present study aims to identify which digital communication strategies are used to generate interest and attraction to the destination. In our Systematic Literature Review (SLR), we examine the relationship between the terms “lifestyle migration” and “digital communication”, obtaining 294 articles found in Web of Science (WOS) and Scopus. After the analysis, we found 16 potential articles that were linked to the research objectives. The results of the methodology are classified according to the different digital communication actions identified, namely (i) Social Network Relationship; (ii) Digital Marketing, and (iii) Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. Therefore, this this study contributes to link lifestyle migration and digital communication to destination management offices, companies and entrepreneurs. The paper finishes with a discussion of theoretical and practical implications of research on digital communication strategies in the field of long-stay tourism.

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Pills in paradise: Exploring international lifestyle and retirement migrants’ perceptions of the pharmaceutical sector on Cozumel Island, Mexico

Cited by 10 publications

References 45 publications

Altering consumer practices, facing uncertainties, and seeking stability: Canadian news media framings of international retirement migrants during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Altering consumer practices, facing uncertainties, and seeking stability: Canadian news media framings of international retirement migrants during the COVID‐19 pandemic

La inmigración “azucarada”. Parejas binacionales heterógamas en el mercado matrimonial de Mazatlán, Sinaloa, México

Digital communication strategies used by private companies, entrepreneurs, and public entities to attract long-stay tourists: a review

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