Tourism and international retirement migration: New forms of an old relationship in southern Europe

Williams, Allan M.; King, Russell; Warnes, Anthony; Patterson, Guy

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“…El aumento de la riqueza y la esperanza de vida que tuvo lugar a partir de 1960 incrementó el número de pensionistas noreuropeos que podían permitirse veranear junto al mar Mediterráneo (Russell et al,l998). A partir de la década de 1990 se produjo un gran aumento de la migración residencial, debido al creciente flujo de noreuropeosmuchos de ellos jubilados-que decidieron establecer su residencia permanente en las regiones mediterráneas O'Reilly, 2000O'Reilly, , 2007Williams et al, 2000;Gustafson, 2009;Rodríguez et al, 1998Rodríguez et al, , 2004Rodríguez et al, , 2005Casado, 2006;Huete, 2009;Mazón et al, 2009).…”

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Migración residencial y urbanismo expansivo en el Mediterráneo español

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2015

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RESUMENEste artículo investiga la migración internacional de jubilados noreuropeos hacia España y su influencia en el desarrollo del urbanismo expansivo en nuestro país. Los temas clave que en este artículo se analizan son la expansión del urbanismo expansivo durante la burbuja inmobiliaria española, la cantidad y distribución de los jubilados noreuropeos residentes en España, y la relación entre la llegada de dichos migrantes residenciales y la difusión del urbanismo expansivo. Este artículo explica los motivos de esta migración residencial, que están principalmente relacionados con el clima y el estilo de vida mediterráneos. También describe los beneficios y los inconvenientes de dicha migración residencial y el impacto medioambiental y paisajístico sobre la España Mediterránea.Palabras clave: migración residencial, urbanismo expansivo, burbuja inmobiliaria, España Mediterránea. Residencial migration and urban sprawl in the spanish mediterranean area ABSTRACTThis paper investigates the international retirement migration from elderly Europeans into Spain and its influence on expansion of urban sprawl there. Key themes analyzed in this paper include the urban sprawl expansion during the Spanish housing bubble, the size and distribution of the elderly Europeans residents in Spain, and the link between lifestyle migrants and urban sprawl development. This paper considers the reasons for elderly Europeans moving into Spain, which are chiefly related with the weather and lifestyle. It also explores the benefits and drawbacks of these en masse lifestyle migration and the environmental and landscape impacts on Mediterranean Spain.

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Migración residencial y urbanismo expansivo en el Mediterráneo español

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“…Currently, 7473 Dutch citizens aged 60 and over are registered as residents in the province. This figure does not include the high number of seasonal migrants and other retirement migrants who have retained their residency in their home country (King et al, 2000;O'Reilly, 2000;Rodríguez, Lardiés, & Rodríguez, 2010).…”

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“…Northern European retirement migrants tend to portray themselves and are often portrayed in the literature on retirement migration as active, healthy, and well-off migrants for whom migration to the Mediterranean is a way to pursue the "good life" (see for example Benson & O'Reilly, 2009;King, Warnes, & Williams, 2000). Likewise, retirement migrants are often depicted as "amenity seekers" (Haas & Serow, 2002;Williams, King, Warnes, & Patterson, 2000) or "lifestyle" migrants (Benson & O'Reilly, 2009).…”

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“…Likewise, retirement migrants are often depicted as "amenity seekers" (Haas & Serow, 2002;Williams, King, Warnes, & Patterson, 2000) or "lifestyle" migrants (Benson & O'Reilly, 2009). Generally, studies on retirement migration focus on the first move after retirement which is often undertaken within the "third age" during which new social and recreational activities can be pursued (Hall & Hardill, 2014).…”

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Dutch retirement migration to Spain and Turkey: Seeking access to healthcare across borders

Gehring

2016

Transnational Social Review

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This article focuses on Dutch retirement migrants who move to Spain and Turkey after retirement. Retirement migrants move at a stage in their life cycle which can be associated with health deterioration. The need to seek access to healthcare provisions may therefore be important in the migratory experience of retirement migrants. This article provides an analysis at three different and interrelated levels by drawing on an analytical framework of Faist, Bilecen, Barglowski and Sienkiewicz. The article discusses the interrelationship between: (1) European, national, and private rules and regulations on health care which determine retirement migrants' access to healthcare provisions in the home and host state; (2) retirement migrants' social networks as a space where collective meaning is given to these rules and regulations and where retirement migrants create preferences for healthcare provisions; and (3) retirement migrants' strategies to access their preferred set of healthcare provisions in the home and host state. It will be argued that retirement migrants may navigate their way through the healthcare systems and may change their mobility or residence pattern in order to be seen as a resident in the Netherlands or Spain/Turkey in order to access their preferred set of healthcare provisions.

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“…There are many reasons for keeping-in-touch through "intermittent physical reunion" via visits to friends and relatives: they offer pleasure of course, but also allow individuals to fulfil some of the responsibilities of family membership and friendship, and to refresh and renew levels of mutual trust and obligations. These visits are also sources of information and knowledge about particular places and serve to delimit search spaces (Williams, King, Warnes, & Patterson, 2000), thereby contributing to enfolding mobilities, which shape future mobility trajectories.…”

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Mobilities and sustainable tourism: path-creating or path-dependent relationships?

Williams

2013

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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This paper advances understanding of tourism mobility trajectories and outcomes by discussing if the trajectory of tourism mobility is path dependent or path creating and, therefore, whether tourism is locked into existing sub optimal pathways, or is there scope for creating significantly more sustainable future pathways. Tourism mobilities are understood in the context of overall shifts in corporeal mobilities, especially the impact of migration on networks and VFR tourism. Four main tourism mobilities drivers are considered -technology, markets, cultures of mobility and state intervention -but their impact on mobilities is contested. The concepts of enfolded and substitutable mobilities, and of scapes and flows, are explained and used as intermediary concepts for engaging with the key relationships influencing tourism mobilities. Path dependency is shown to be backed by existing technologies, cultures and markets, together with deeply embedded scapes and substantial investments in existing infrastructure. Trends towards path creation are shown to depend on technological breakthroughs, including virtual tourism, alternative life styles bringing cultural change, market conditions brought about by possible sustained high oil prices, and state intervention leading to behavioural change. The concept of 'path-dependent path-creation" is discussed along with the powerful influence of uncertainties and unknown future tipping-points.

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Tourism and international retirement migration: New forms of an old relationship in southern Europe

Cited by 191 publications

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Migración residencial y urbanismo expansivo en el Mediterráneo español

Migración residencial y urbanismo expansivo en el Mediterráneo español

Dutch retirement migration to Spain and Turkey: Seeking access to healthcare across borders

Mobilities and sustainable tourism: path-creating or path-dependent relationships?

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