Ties That No Longer Bind? The Patterns and Repercussions of Age-Articulated Migration

‘Where are you from’ or ‘when did you come’? Temporal dimensions in migrants' reflections about settlement and return

“…Exceptions include the study of migrants' descendants (Levitt 2009) and of the significance of life-cycle stages for migration processes (see e.g. Plane and Jurjevich 2009;Rumbaut 2004). By and large, however, in migration research it is common to sample and analyse data along national dimensions.…”

Population aging: What role for regional science?

“…The younger elderly may be able to use the equity in their homes to finance moves to amenity areas (Graves 1979;Graves and Waldman 1991;Mueser and Graves 1995). Amongst the oldest elderly, there is evidence of return movements up the settlement hierarchy to places including medium urban areas (Plane and Jurjevich 2009). Often times, these migrations occur for health reasons or need to be near family for support as health starts to decline, with earlier work by Litwack and Longino (1987) describing a typology of moves.…”

“…2 The geography of aging is impacted by the migration of the old. Dave Plane's work shows the movement of older individuals and empty nesters-people who are relatively footloose-all the way down the metropolitan hierarchy as they transition into retirement-leaving America's largest cities and moving to micropolitan or rural areas (Plane et al 2005;Plane and Jurjevich 2009). Moreover, these are demographically 'effective' streams-migration in this age group is spatially one way.…”

“…Of course, what we are witnessing is retiree's preferences for less congestion, greater amenities and lower costs of living. Much of this movement actually occurs amongst the comparatively young elderly, with Plane and Jurjevich (2009) speculating that empty nesting is responsible for the re-evaluation of where to live. Similar evidence is observed in other countries, with movement down the urban hierarchy (Newbold 2011), along with the movement of older, pre-retirement households relocating to more rural areas despite the relocation necessitating a much longer commute to work, suggesting that people were preparing for retirement and establishing themselves in a new environment even before retirement (Axisa et al 2012).…”

Well-Being of Youth and Emerging Adults across Cultures

“…The world is in the midst of the largest migration in human history, both within and between countries (UNHCR, 2016). More than any other age group, it is 18-to 29-year-olds who are the migrants (Plane & Jurjevich, 2009). This makes sense, developmentally.…”