Cornelia Schweppe

This book examines the increasing evidence of international retirement migration (IRM) to countries of the Global South. IRM to countries of the Global South points to the increasing global interconnectedness of aging in relatively affluent countries and raises critical questions about its interrelations with global inequalities. Meer

Das Buch untersucht die Lebenssituation von alten Menschen auf dem Land mit Methoden der Biographieforschung.
Entgegen idyllischen Vorstellungen über problemloses Altern auf dem Land legen die rekonstruierten Biographien schwierige und riskante Lebensentwürfe offen. Meer

This book focuses on the diverse interrelationships between aging and transnationality. It argues that the lives of older people are increasingly entangled in transnational contexts on the social as well as the cultural, economic and political levels. Meer

In the context of ever-increasing globalization, transnational systems of support have emerged in response to the needs of transnational families, labour forces, and the communities within which they are located. Meer