Overview
- Provides detailed case studies based on fifty life-history interviews with female migrants aged 40s-60s from Latvia, the United Kingdom, and other European countries
- Challenges the trope of vulnerability which generally surrounds the framing of older migrants’ lives
- Offers policy-makers insights into the realities of ageing working migrants and the need for better working conditions, ongoing care arrangements post-retirement, and revised pension policy
Part of the book series: Mobility & Politics (MPP)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Russell King is Professor of Geography at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom, and Visiting Professor of Migration Studies at Malmo University, Sweden. He is founding director of the Sussex Centre for Migration Research and author of many books and papers on migration-related themes.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ageing, Gender, and Labour Migration
Authors: Aija Lulle, Russell King
Series Title: Mobility & Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55615-8
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot New York
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55614-1Published: 30 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55615-8Published: 29 August 2016
Series ISSN: 2731-3867
Series E-ISSN: 2731-3875
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 139
Topics: Comparative Politics, Migration, European Politics, European Union Politics, Gender Studies, Public Policy