Ageing well: the time–spaces of possibility for older female Latvian migrants in the UK

Lulle, Aija; King, Russell

doi:10.1080/14649365.2015.1089584

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“…For Baltic migrants in the London region, several temporal dimensions, at various scales, are seen to operate. These range from the opening up of a 'time-space of possibilities' for free movement and employment after 2004 (Lulle and King 2016) and the extra stimulus to outmovement provoked by the economic crisis and austerity (Sommers and Woolfson 2014); to the biographical time of the ongoing migration experience and its employment transitions and 'self-development' projects (Parutis 2011); to, ultimately, a search for settled stability.…”

Section: Theoretical Contextsmentioning

confidence: 99%

From peripheral region to escalator region in Europe: Young Baltic graduates in London

King¹,

Lulle

Parutis

et al. 2017

European Urban and Regional Studies

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This paper examines recent migration from three little-studied EU countries, the Baltic states, focusing on early-career graduates who move to London. It looks at how these young migrants explain the reasons for their move, their work and living experiences in London, and their plans for the future, based on 78 interviews with individual migrants. A key objective of this paper is to rejuvenate the core-periphery structural framework through the theoretical lens of London as an 'escalator' region for career development. We add a necessary nuance on how the time dimension is crucial in understanding how an escalator region functions -both in terms of macro-events such as EU enlargement or economic crisis, and for life-course events such as career advancement or family formation. Our findings indicate that these educated young adults from the EU's north-eastern periphery migrate for a combination of economic, career, lifestyle and personal-development reasons. They are ambivalent about their futures and when, and whether, they will return-migrate.

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Section: Theoretical Contextsmentioning

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From peripheral region to escalator region in Europe: Young Baltic graduates in London

King¹,

Lulle

Parutis

et al. 2017

European Urban and Regional Studies

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“…6 For more details on this aspect of 'ageing well' through migration and work abroad, see Lulle and King (2016). Other studies of the migration of post-Soviet older women do not reach a similar conclusion.…”

Section: Father's Testament: One-way Ticket To Englandmentioning

confidence: 82%

Grandmothers migrating, working and caring: Latvian women between survival and self-realisation

King

Lulle

2016

Population Horizons

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This paper describes the circumstances surrounding the migration of older Latvian women and their multi-dimensional lives as economic migrants and as distant carers and supporters of diverse family members who remain in Latvia. In post-Soviet Latvia, especially since the 2008 financial crisis and the austerity measures which took away hope for a decent old-age pension, older women migrate abroad in order to salvage their economic wellbeing and support their multi-generation families, which can run to four generations -their children and grandchildren plus, often, their elderly parents. Migration enables these women to maintain multidirectional flows of care and also to achieve economic and psychosocial independence. Therefore, care practices that reach four generations put the figure of the grandmother at the core of transnational care relations. Research evidence for this paper comprises 50 in-depth interviews with older Latvian migrant women aged from their mid-40s to their late 60s in the UK and elsewhere. The paper demonstrates the complexity and richness of these women's working lives, built around enhanced economic wellbeing, multiple and transnational caring responsibilities, and a new sense of self-worth and empowerment.

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“…This draws attention to the importance of shifts in lifespan developments and resulting re‐adjustments over the life course (Trundle, ). The quest for self‐determination or even seclusion in later life and the desire for a “sensual appreciation of life” or a sense of “erotic agency” (Lulle & King, , p. 448; Sheller, , pp. 244–245) are not necessarily (if ever) conflictual.…”

Section: Ageing Lifestyle and Place: Crossings And Intersectionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Sheller, ), and the “time‐spaces of possibility” (or hindrance) unleashed by the migration experience (cf. Lulle & King, ).…”

Section: Living and Ageing As A Single Lifestyle Migrant In The Azorementioning

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A place to grow older … alone? Living and ageing as a single older lifestyle migrant in the Azores

Sampaio

2018

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International retirement migration has been typically regarded as a couple's project. Much less is known about single lifestyle migrants who settle and age abroad and those who, after the loss of their spouse, decide to stay put. Informed by a larger pool of 36 life‐narrative interviews with later‐life lifestyle migrants in the Azores, and structured around four selected portrayals, this paper seeks to explore meanings of place in later life and to unpack the complex set of negotiations that the ageing self undergoes in a context of migration. Drawing on relational and unbound understandings of place, I question traditional assumptions that see single older migrants abroad as vulnerable and dependent, emphasising a more complex set of needs, desires and expectations in (and for) later‐life. For these migrants, emplaced living and ageing experiences are ambiguously mixed. The islands are described as places of freedom and self‐actualisation, and also “safe ports” in later‐life. Yet, this does not prevent intermittent feelings of isolation and loneliness, including the desire to restore some sense of companionship and romantic life.

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Ageing well: the time–spaces of possibility for older female Latvian migrants in the UK

Cited by 29 publications

References 46 publications

From peripheral region to escalator region in Europe: Young Baltic graduates in London

From peripheral region to escalator region in Europe: Young Baltic graduates in London

Grandmothers migrating, working and caring: Latvian women between survival and self-realisation

A place to grow older … alone? Living and ageing as a single older lifestyle migrant in the Azores

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