Old age facilities for German-speaking people in Thailand - a new facet of international migration in old age
Old age facilities for German-speaking people in Thailand - a new facet of international migration in old age
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DOI：
10.1080/1369183x.2018.1521266
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发表时间：
2020-05-18
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Schweppe, Cornelia
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作者：
Bender, Desiree;Hollstein, Tina;Schweppe, Cornelia
这篇文章探讨老年设施在泰国迎合来自德语国家的人。“全球南方”的这些制度化的老年空间代表了老年移民的一个新方面。什么动机的人在老年移民，并选择这些设施在泰国的问题开始，文章确定了重要的因素，这些设施提供什么，并显示这些产品和不同的需求和愿望的老年移民之间存在的兼容性。泰国和德语原籍国之间的跨国交织关系体现了这些设施的许多具体特点，使它们能够为德语国家的老年人提供多种长寿选择。它们对与留在原籍国长大（和变老）的前景有关的各种不同希望和未满足的需要作出制度化的回应，同时，它们应对移徙进程的挑战和潜在风险。
This article examines old age facilities in Thailand catering to people from German-speaking countries. These institutionalised spaces of age(ing) in the 'Global South' represent a new facet of migration in old age. Starting with the question of what motivates people to migrate in old age and to opt for these facilities in Thailand, the article identifies important factors that characterise what these facilities offer and shows the compatibility that exists between these offerings and the heterogeneous needs and aspirations of the older migrants. Transnational intertwinements between Thailand and the Germanophone countries of origin characterise many of the specific features of these facilities, which allow them to present multiple perspectives for extended life options for ageing people from German-speaking countries. They provide institutionalised responses to a range of different hopes and unmet needs associated with the prospect of growing (and being) older while remaining in the country of origin, and at the same time, they address the challenges and potential risks of the migration process.