Migration, Diversity and Inequality in Later Life

This book is the first comprehensive ethnographic study of the diversity of living and ageing experiences of three groups of older migrants - return, lifestyle and ageing-in-place labour migrants - from a comparative perspective. It explores the motivations, ageing experiences and aspirations of transnational ageing migrants in the context of the Portuguese islands of the Azores and situates the research within debates of the ageing-migration nexus. The book’s interdisciplinary approach to transnational embodied and emplaced experiences of ageing facilitates a dialogue between various fields concerned with ageing and mobilities, including geography, anthropology, sociology, social gerontology, social work, and studies of health and wellbeing.

Captures the heterogeneity of everyday experiences of migrants situated in a wide spectrum of aging experiences

Examines older migrants’ identities and inequalities of aging through an intersectional lens

Explores migrant and non-migrant encounters in transnational perspective