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Experience of older migrants

Experience of older migrants. Race and class in a different perspective?. Affluent Retirement Migrants. Movement from northern to southern Europe (i.e. to a warmer country) 5.5 million people from the UK live permanently overseas

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Experience of older migrants

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  1. Experience of older migrants Race and class in a different perspective? Graeme Simpson & Sue Lawrence 2011

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  3. Affluent Retirement Migrants • Movement from northern to southern Europe (i.e. to a warmer country) • 5.5 million people from the UK live permanently overseas • Ex-pat English communities on the Costa del Sol have many “frail elderly” • 820,000 UK elders who receive their state pension overseas (they move to be near family) Graeme Simpson & Sue Lawrence 2011

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  5. Labour Migrants who have reached Old Age. • 1950s to 1970s migration overseas to find work • Low skilled, low paid work • Lifetime of disadvantage: poor housing; healthcare & racism • Socially excluded and disadvantaged throughout Europe: pioneers who have “aged in place” Graeme Simpson & Sue Lawrence 2011

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  7. Return Migrants • Labour migrants who want to return home • Usually after paid employment has ceased • International Social Services can offer advice and assistance • www.iss-ssi.org - International Social Service Graeme Simpson & Sue Lawrence 2011

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  9. Migration through Necessity • Many people flee wars and famine, natural disasters or genocide • Different cultural groups articulate Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in different ways (Lyons et al, 2006) Graeme Simpson & Sue Lawrence 2011

  10. Bibliography • Lawrence, S. Lyons, K. Simpson, G. & Huegler, N. (2009) Introducing International Social Work. Exeter: learning Matters. • Lyons, K, Manion, C, and Carlsen, M. (2006) International Perspectives of Social Work. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. • Torres, S (2006) Making sense of the construct of successful ageing, in Daatland, S and Biggs, S (eds) Ageing and diversity. Bristol: Policy Press. • Warnes, A.M. and Williams, A. (2006) Older Migrants in Europe: Experiences, Exclusion and Constructive Accommodation Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 32 (8) 1257-1281 • Warnes, T. (2006) ‘Older foreign migrants in Europe: multiple pathways and welfare positions’ in Daatland, S. and Biggs, S. Ageing and Diversity. Bristol: Policy Press. Graeme Simpson & Sue Lawrence 2011

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