Professional remittances: how ageing returnees seek to contribute to the homeland

Retirement Home? Ageing Migrant Workers in France and the Question of Return

“…In an echo of Cerase's 'returns of innovation', Ken Sun describes the attempts of ageing Taiwanese returnees to contribute to Taiwan through their professional knowledge and networks gained while abroad. Nonethelesss, they face significant structural constraints in their attempts to do so (Sun 2016).…”

“…By contrast, in an overview of retirement return migration, Warnes (2009) noted only four publications which focus on ageing migrant populations undertaking definitive return (Byron and Condon 1996;Malcolm 1996;. As with other categories, however, recent years have witnessed increasing attention in this area (Barrett and Mosca 2013;Baykara-Krumme 2013;Gualda and Escriva 2014;Sun 2016), including an edited volume on the topic . Some of this work points to the frustrations and difficulties which returnees encounter in their efforts to re-integrate and adapt to life in places of origin (Barrett and Mosca 2013;Gualda and Escriva 2014;Olsson 2013;Sun 2016).…”

“…As with other categories, however, recent years have witnessed increasing attention in this area (Barrett and Mosca 2013;Baykara-Krumme 2013;Gualda and Escriva 2014;Sun 2016), including an edited volume on the topic . Some of this work points to the frustrations and difficulties which returnees encounter in their efforts to re-integrate and adapt to life in places of origin (Barrett and Mosca 2013;Gualda and Escriva 2014;Olsson 2013;Sun 2016). A significant body of literature has also emerged on the determinants of the decision to return, a question of central importance in this book (for an overview see Ciobanu and Ramos 2015).…”

Journey’s End? Old Age in France’s Migrant Worker Hostels

“…Structuralist accounts (e.g. Cerase 1974;Sun 2016) draw attention to the political, social and cultural structures in places of origin to which returnees have to re-adapt. The literature on transnationalism (e.g.…”

“…As with other categories, however, recent years have witnessed increasing attention in this area (Barrett and Mosca 2013; Baykara-Krumme 2013; Gualda and Escriva 2014; Sun 2016), including an edited volume on the topic (Percival 2013). Some of this work points to the frustrations and difficulties which returnees encounter in their efforts to re-integrate and adapt to life in places of origin (Barrett and Mosca 2013;Gualda and Escriva 2014;Olsson 2013;Sun 2016). A significant body of literature has also emerged on the determinants of the decision to return, a question of central importance in this book (for an overview see Ciobanu and Ramos 2015).…”