Ageing here or there?: Spatio-temporalities in older labour migrants return aspirations from the Azores
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Summary: | In this article, I seek to unpack the multiple spatio-temporalities in older migrants ideas about return, shedding light on the complex set of motivations and imaginaries that precede return migration. The paper springs from a space-time approach based on the assertion that return aspirations are continuously shaped and negotiated both in and out of place. The discussion is framed around 36 in-depth life narrative interviews with later-life labour migrants living in the Azores, and a seven-month period of ethnographic fieldwork. The role of spatial dimensions such as the place of settlement and the country of origin, and temporal features such as age, length of stay in the host country or stage of life at the time of migration, is discussed in detail. The paper identifies a family-work matrix and a home-host country dialectic as central forces shaping migrants thoughts and possibilities of return. The multi-stranded, time-fluid, space-induced, context-dependent nature of (return) migration decisions is highlighted and it is shown that an apparent satisfactory social integration in the destination country does not, by itself, prevent migrants desire to return |
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Ageing here or there?: Spatio-temporalities in older labour migrants return aspirations from the Azores |
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Ageing here or there?: Spatio-temporalities in older labour migrants return aspirations from the Azores Sampaio,Dora Return aspirations spatio-temporalities older labour migrants Azores |
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Ageing here or there?: Spatio-temporalities in older labour migrants return aspirations from the Azores |
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Ageing here or there?: Spatio-temporalities in older labour migrants return aspirations from the Azores |
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Ageing here or there?: Spatio-temporalities in older labour migrants return aspirations from the Azores |
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Ageing here or there?: Spatio-temporalities in older labour migrants return aspirations from the Azores |
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Ageing here or there?: Spatio-temporalities in older labour migrants return aspirations from the Azores |
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In this article, I seek to unpack the multiple spatio-temporalities in older migrants ideas about return, shedding light on the complex set of motivations and imaginaries that precede return migration. The paper springs from a space-time approach based on the assertion that return aspirations are continuously shaped and negotiated both in and out of place. The discussion is framed around 36 in-depth life narrative interviews with later-life labour migrants living in the Azores, and a seven-month period of ethnographic fieldwork. The role of spatial dimensions such as the place of settlement and the country of origin, and temporal features such as age, length of stay in the host country or stage of life at the time of migration, is discussed in detail. The paper identifies a family-work matrix and a home-host country dialectic as central forces shaping migrants thoughts and possibilities of return. The multi-stranded, time-fluid, space-induced, context-dependent nature of (return) migration decisions is highlighted and it is shown that an apparent satisfactory social integration in the destination country does not, by itself, prevent migrants desire to return |
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