Retirement Home? Ageing Migrant Workers in France and the Question of Return

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hunter, Alistair (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:XII, 211 p. 28 illus.
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Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:IMISCOE Research Series,
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64976-4
Format: Electronic eBook
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Journey’s End? Old Age in France’s Migrant Worker Hostels
  • 2. Points of Departure: Geographical, Historical and Theoretical Contexts
  • 3. Your Papers, Please: the Temporal and Territorial Demands of Welfare State Inclusion
  • 4. Home / Sick: the Health–Migration Order
  • 5. Return to Sender: Remittances, Communication and Family Conflict
  • 6. Getting One’s Bearings: Re-integration in the Home Community
  • 7. Loss of Autonomy, Dying and the Penultimate Voyage
  • 8. Conclusion: the Returns from Theory and a New Approach to Home
  • Appendix: notes on method.