What To Do After Retirement? Elderly Migrants and the Question of Return

Bolzman, Claudio; Fibbi, Rosita; Vial, Marie

doi:10.1080/13691830600928748

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“…The lack of knowledge about health and social services is common among older migrants, leading to issues such as the underutilization of available services (Bolzman, Fibbi, & Vial, 2006). Healthcare agencies need an increased awareness of the changing demographics of New Zealand’s older health consumers, require responsive and contemporary educational knowledge on migrant health and social needs, and need to provide culturally targeted services.…”

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confidence: 99%

Moving backwards, moving forward: the experiences of older Filipino migrants adjusting to life in New Zealand

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Neville

Holroyd

2017

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

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Purpose: To explore the experiences of older Filipino migrants adjusting to living permanently in New Zealand.Method: The qualitative descriptive approach taken in this study involved 17 individual face-to-face interviews of older Filipino migrants in New Zealand.Results: Three main themes emerged from the data. The first theme was “moving backwards and moving forward”, which described how these older Filipino migrants adjusted to challenges they experienced with migration. The second theme was “engaging with health services” and presented challenges relating to the New Zealand healthcare system, including a lack of knowledge of the nature of health services, language barriers, and differences in cultural views. The third theme, “new-found home”, highlighted establishing a Filipino identity in New Zealand and adjusting to the challenges of relocation.Conclusion: Adjustment to life in New Zealand for these older Filipino migrants meant starting over again by building new values through learning the basics and then moving forward from there.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Moving backwards, moving forward: the experiences of older Filipino migrants adjusting to life in New Zealand

Montayre

Neville

Holroyd

2017

International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

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“…Although retirement migration in general is increasingly studied, the experiences of post-retirement returnees are still largely under-researched, especially from a gender lens (exceptions include Ackers and Dwyer, 2002;Balkır and Böcker, 2015;Bolzman et al, 2006;De Coulon and Wolff, 2010;De Haas and Fokkema, 2010;Hunter, 2011;Krumme, 2004). Earlier studies on return migration to the Mediterranean region have focussed mainly on the return of working-age migrants and do not incorporate the experiences of post-retirement returnees in their analysis.…”

Section: Gender and (Retirement Return) Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Recent studies on Turkish and Spanish return retirement migrants who have worked in a Northern European country show that older migrants often prefer to maintain a flexible migratory pattern (instead of returning permanently to their country of origin), because of a 'duality of resources and references' in both the country of retirement and the country where they spent their working life (Bolzman et al, 2006;cf. Krumme, 2004).…”

Section: Gender and (Retirement Return) Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Returning ‘home’ after retirement? The role of gender in return migration decisions of Spanish and Turkish migrants

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2015

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This paper examines how gender plays a role in the decision-making processes of older migrants on where to live after retirement. It is based on 20 in-depth interviews with Spanish-born migrants and 56 in-depth interviews with Turkish-born migrants who spent their working lives in the Netherlands and returned to their country of origin or started moving back and forth between both countries after retirement. Existing studies on return migration have shown that women are often more reluctant than men to settle back in their country of origin, yet these studies also acknowledge that more in-depth research should be conducted on the role of gender in migrants' decision-making on return migration. In this paper, we examine, firstly, why our female respondents were often more reluctant to return and how this influenced the decision-making processes of couples or families. Secondly, we analyse how the different citizenship statuses of the respondents (Dutch, Spanish, Turkish and/or European) influenced their decision-making and how citizenship interacted with gender differences.

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“…For example, social security systems, which in many ways are shaped by national states, have an important impact on the temporal and spatial dimensions of older migrants' transnational involvement as they are influenced by the access and portability of social security entitlements across countries. Thus, for example, the question of whether pensions can be received in another country than the country of residence have a bearing on the older migrants' decision whether to join their children abroad, to stay in the country of residence or to develop pendular migration patterns (Bolzman et al 2006;Lunt 2009). Still, the portability of social security rights is a complex issue due to differences between social security systems, formal hurdles related to access requirements and administrative discretion, especially in the interpretation of residency rules (Avato et al 2010).…”

Section: Aging Migrant Populationsmentioning

confidence: 99%