Publication details
Starzenie się a praktyki migracyjne. Przykład Polaków i Czechów migrujących po roku 2004
| Title in English | Ageing and Migration Practices. An Example of Poles and Czechs Migrating after 2004 |
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| Year of publication | 2022 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | The fact of aging has been and continues to be – in the contexts of migration processes – commented on in the humanities by means of demographic and sociological methodologies with particular attention to the macro-scale of population ageing. In this perspective, migrants take on roles that hold back processes associated with the pace of ageing (rejuvenation of societies thanks to inflows of younger foreigners or from backgrounds with higher birth rates) or that safeguard these processes (migrants‘ employment in health care institutions, care homes, as individual carers for the elderly). Ethnological reflection, through its tools, observation and interviewing, allows to look at the phenomenon of ageing at the micro-scale of local groups and to delineate the reciprocal influences occurring between the movement of individuals and the fact that they, and their families, are ageing. The perspective of old age is reflected in the way people spend their leisure time or choose their travel destinations. It also becomes a negatively valued representation of the intensification of the category of the otherness (as a foreigner, and at the same time a person of post-working age). It also affects practices related to the future, e.g. the purchase of real estate in the homeland “for the old years”, the wish to be buried in the hometown, etc. Migration practices are also influenced by the age of the parents or next of kin left behind in the country of origin. This age influences the frequency of visits to the country, as well as the type of contacts maintained. |
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