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Free keywords:
Ageing; migration; translocal mobilities; life course; global south
Abstract:
This article intervenes in the fields of migration and ageing studies
by examining complex social experiences and local manifestations
of ageing and mobility in regions of the world that remain at the
margins of such debates. Specifically, it foregrounds groups that
are less visible in existent scholarly and policy work: namely,
ageing adults from low- and middle-income regions of the world
moving across regions of the South, and to places in the North. In
doing so, the article critically reflects and approaches ‘South’ and
‘North’ not as essentialised or discrete categories, but as shifting,
relational categories that encompass much diversity and varying
marginalities. The article introduces a set of contributions that
qualitatively investigate translocal intersections of ageing and
migration across Central Africa, South, East and Southeast Asia,
and Latin America, and in some cases in connection to places in
the North. The collection advances debates on the ageing-
migration nexus with a southern focus by examining three key
themes that display geographical unevenness and social diversity:
(Im)mobilities of ageing, retirement and kinship strategies in light
of restrictive mobility and citizenship regimes; multidirectionality
of care across borders and generations; and the temporalities and
spatialities of home, belonging, and displacement.
