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Breaking Free and Settling Down : Contradictory Cultural Meanings of Rural Retirement Migration among Swedish Seniors

Nilsson, Gabriella LU orcid (2013) 4(4). p.27-50
Abstract
In this chapter, I argue that moving as a way to counter the negative aspects of ageing (actual as well as symbolic), is both dependent on mobility and contradictory to it. The overall purpose is to investigate the relation between moving and mobility in the accounts told by people who have chosen to migrate as seniors in order to enable a certain lifestyle. In what way does the discursive ideal of freedom and mobility, apparent in media and in popular science today, influence the way these seniors imagine, experience and talk about their move? To what extent do their accounts of retirement migration include traces of continuity and change, freedom and security, as well as mobility and rootedness? Could the move function as a way of... (More)
In this chapter, I argue that moving as a way to counter the negative aspects of ageing (actual as well as symbolic), is both dependent on mobility and contradictory to it. The overall purpose is to investigate the relation between moving and mobility in the accounts told by people who have chosen to migrate as seniors in order to enable a certain lifestyle. In what way does the discursive ideal of freedom and mobility, apparent in media and in popular science today, influence the way these seniors imagine, experience and talk about their move? To what extent do their accounts of retirement migration include traces of continuity and change, freedom and security, as well as mobility and rootedness? Could the move function as a way of breaking free and settling down simultaneously? (Less)
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publication status
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subject
keywords
ethnology, retirement migration, later life, migration, moving, mobility, seniors, Österlen, retirees
host publication
Nordic Seniors on the Move. Mobility and Migration in Later Life
editor
Nilsson, Gabriella and Blaakilde, Anne Leonora
volume
4
issue
4
pages
27 - 50
publisher
Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences
ISSN
2001-7510
2001-7529
ISBN
978-91-981458-0-9
language
English
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yes
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57ba1337-053c-421a-9687-8de91f187b49 (old id 4196417)
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2016-04-01 10:37:26
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  author       = {{Nilsson, Gabriella}},
  booktitle    = {{Nordic Seniors on the Move. Mobility and Migration in Later Life}},
  editor       = {{Nilsson, Gabriella and Blaakilde, Anne Leonora}},
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  publisher    = {{Lund Studies in Arts and Cultural Sciences}},
  title        = {{Breaking Free and Settling Down : Contradictory Cultural Meanings of Rural Retirement Migration among Swedish Seniors}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/2000334/4295348.pdf}},
  volume       = {{4}},
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