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Breaking Free and Settling Down : Contradictory Cultural Meanings of Rural Retirement Migration among Swedish Seniors

Författare

Redaktör

  • Gabriella Nilsson
  • Anne Leonora Blaakilde

Summary, in English

In this chapter, I argue that moving as a way to counter the negative aspects of ageing (actual as well as symbolic), is both dependent on mobility and contradictory to it. The overall purpose is to investigate the relation between moving and mobility in the accounts told by people who have chosen to migrate as seniors in order to enable a certain lifestyle. In what way does the discursive ideal of freedom and mobility, apparent in media and in popular science today, influence the way these seniors imagine, experience and talk about their move? To what extent do their accounts of retirement migration include traces of continuity and change, freedom and security, as well as mobility and rootedness? Could the move function as a way of breaking free and settling down simultaneously?

Publiceringsår

2013

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

27-50

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Nordic Seniors on the Move. Mobility and Migration in Later Life

Volym

4

Issue

4

Dokumenttyp

Del av eller Kapitel i bok

Förlag

Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences

Ämne

  • Ethnology

Nyckelord

  • ethnology
  • retirement migration
  • later life
  • migration
  • moving
  • mobility
  • seniors
  • Österlen
  • retirees

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 2001-7529
  • ISSN: 2001-7510
  • ISBN: 978-91-981458-0-9