Negotiating the Challenges of Aging as a British Migrant in Spain
Negotiating the Challenges of Aging as a British Migrant in Spain
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DOI：
10.1024/1662-9647/a000147
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发表时间：
2016-06-01
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1
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Hall, Kelly
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作者：
Ahmed, Anya;Hall, Kelly
关于生活方式迁移的研究越来越多，包括对退休后从北方国家迁移到南欧国家的老年人的研究。这些研究通常集中在所谓的第三年龄退休人员身上，他们通过运动来提高生活质量，实现最佳的老龄化。这些健康和活跃的移民尚未面临与第四年龄相关的挑战。本文重点介绍了如何退休人员在第三和第四年龄的生活经验和运动的流动性，以及如何一些经验的过渡，从年轻的老年到老年的老年在西班牙。虽然第三个年龄的特点是新的机会和活动，第四个年龄是一个减少流动性，依赖性和身体衰退的时间。我们汇集了叙事访谈数据，从两个独立的研究进行与英国老年人在西班牙研究三个主要问题：如何退休移民的经验和身份的变化，以应对老龄化的身体;退休移民部署的策略，以管理第四个年龄;如何生活方式移民作为一个理论范畴捕捉移民的经验，在他们的第四个年龄。因此，本文通过探讨生活方式移民如何从第三年龄过渡到第四年龄，特别是他们如何协商身体衰退和流动性下降，为我们的知识做出了原创性贡献。我们的结论是，老龄化是一个重要的结构性背景下，既启用和限制的机会和经验的流动性。
There has been a proliferation of research on lifestyle migration, including studies of older people who move from Northern to Southern European countries in retirement. This body of research has generally focused on so-called third-age retirees, who exercise mobility to improve their quality of life and to achieve optimal aging. These healthy and active migrants have yet to face the challenges associated with the fourth age. This paper focuses on how retirees in both the third and fourth ages of life experience and exercise mobility, and how some experience the transition from young old to old old age in Spain. While the third age is characterized by new opportunities and activities, the fourth age is a time of decreasing mobility, dependence, and bodily decline. We bring together narrative interview data from two separate studies undertaken with older British people in Spain to examine three main issues: how the experiences and identities of retired migrants change in response to the aging body; the strategies deployed by retired migrants to manage the fourth age; how lifestyle migration as a theoretical category captures the experiences of migrants in their fourth age. This paper therefore represents an original contribution to our knowledge by exploring how lifestyle migrants transition from the third to the fourth age, and in particular how they negotiate bodily decline and decreasing mobility. We conclude that aging represents an important structural context that both enables and restricts opportunities and experiences of mobility.