Health and social fields in the context of lifestyle migration

Legido‐Quigley, Helena; McKee, Martin

doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2012.08.005

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“…A study of British pensioners who have moved to Spain provided an opportunity to explore the conditions for trust in a case where health-care users were encountering a new field. We have previously shown McKee 2012) how, when pensioners move to Spain, they have to navigate new social fields in the destination country, consisting of social networks linking back to Britain, a specific expatriate network in Spain and what they called a Spanish way of life, which includes changes in diet, activities and modes of engagement with the public sector. This article focuses on the health-care system as one such new field, in which acquired dispositions, from previous experience with the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK, might come into conflict.…”

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Trust in health care encounters and systems: a case study of British pensioners living in Spain

Legido‐Quigley

Green

2014

Sociology Health & Illness

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Research on trust in health care faces two enduring challenges. Firstly, there are conceptual ambiguities in distinguishing trust from related concepts, such as confidence or dependence. Second, the tacit understandings which underpin the ‘faith’ element of trust are difficult to explicate. A case study of British pensioners who have moved to Spain provides an opportunity to explore trust in a setting where they often have a choice of where to access health care (UK or Spain), and are therefore not in a state of dependence, and in which the ‘differences’ of a new field generates reflection on their tacit expectations of providers and systems. In accounting for decisions to use (or not to use) Spanish health care, British pensioners cited experiential knowledge of symbolic indicators of trustworthy institutions (they were hygienic, modern, efficient), which contributed to background confidence in the system, and interpersonal qualities of practitioners (respect for older people, embodied empathy and reciprocity) which evoked familiar relations, within which faith is implicit. In contrast, with limited recent access to the British system, their background confidence had been compromised by reports of poor performance, with few opportunities to rebuild the interrelational bases of trust.

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Trust in health care encounters and systems: a case study of British pensioners living in Spain

Legido‐Quigley

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2014

Sociology Health & Illness

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“…The nature of ties that bind retired migrants to the UK and Spain can therefore vary substantially. Some maintain strong ties with friends, family and institutions in the UK (Oliver 2008 ), whilst for others these links with the UK are weak or have dissipated, especially those who have been in Spain for a considerable time (Hardill et al 2005 ; Huber and O'Reilly 2004 ; Legido-Quigley and McKee 2012 ). The social networks of older British migrants can also be complex as they often transcend national boundaries, with networks in both Spain and the UK.…”

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“…As a result, British citizens resident in Spain are often accused of developing an ‘enclave mentality’ (Champion and King 1993 : 54), establishing and maintaining links with other British residents, but rarely integrating and identifying with the host Spanish community (Ahmed 2012 ; Haas 2013 ; Legido-Quigley and McKee 2012 ). Previous studies have highlighted that few learn to speak Spanish to a level that enables them to interact on any more than a superficial level (Iszatt 2013 ; King, Warnes and Williams 2000 ; O'Reilly 2000 ).…”

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“…Most, however, do have active social lives through friendships with other British people and participation in British social clubs (Betty and Cahill 1999 ; Oliver 2008 ). These networks are characterised by reciprocity where ‘everybody helps each other out’ (Legido-Quigley and McKee 2012 ). Retired British communities in Spain are also characterised by a thriving voluntary and community sector, which provides a social life and social network for the more active members (O'Reilly 2000 ).…”

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Retirement migration, the ‘other’ story: caring for frail elderly British citizens in Spain

2014

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Recent years have seen a growth in research on retirement/lifestyle migration to Spain, however this has tended to focus on the reasons for moving, as well as the lifestyles adopted as part of a healthy and active retirement. However, ageing in Spain can bring challenges as a person's resources for independent living diminish. This paper draws on narrative interviews with vulnerable older British people in Spain, focusing on those who have encountered a severe decline in health, are frail and in need of care. It looks at the formal and informal networks and agencies that support these individuals, in particular the resources and strategies they employ to access care. Drawing on a framework of care provision developed by Glucksmann and Lyons, four broad modes of provision for old age care used by older British people in Spain are identified: state/public, family/community, voluntary/not-for-profit and market/for-profit. The paper argues that there are language, cultural, spatial and financial barriers when accessing care in Spain as an older British citizen. It is concluded that there are some frail, vulnerable people that may fall through a support gap, whereby they are no longer the responsibility of UK welfare services, yet not fully recognised in their new country of residence, and asks if more should be done to support this population.

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“…Some researchers point out that some of the main factors propelling the flows are related to the so-called 'lifestyle migration ' (Casado-Díaz, M.A. et al 2004;Torkington, K. 2010;Huete, R. et al 2013;King, R. 2015), a complex and nuanced phenomenon that concerns individuals and families who choose relocation as a way of redefining themselves (Benson, M. and Osbaldiston, N. 2014), searching for nice weather, a better environment or outdoor leisure options, while other scholars have highlighted healthcare as the main reason for such mobility, (Hardill, I. et al 2005;Breivik, J.K. 2012;Legido-Quigley, H. and McKee, M. 2012;Bell, D. et al 2015). In any case, the causes can be related to new identities associated to post modern behavioural patterns (Huber, A. and O'Reilly, K. 2004), namely, lifestyle choices inherent to the decision to migrate (Benson, M. and O'Reilly, K. 2009) and to the pursuit of self-realization, self-exploration or self-development (Conradson, D. and Latham, A.…”

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Working and retiring in sunny Spain: Lifestyle migration further explored

Parreño-Castellano

Mujica

2017

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Spanish tourism destinations have received immigrant workers and retirees from Western and Northern Europe since the sixties. In this paper we focus on the specific group of the retirees who had worked previously in Spain with the objective to quantify them, to interpret the reasons why they migrated and have remained in the Spanish tourism areas, and to acknowledge the relationship between tourism and migration in this context. The empirical research is based on the combination of quantitative and qualitative information. In particular, we have used official statistical sources, semi-structured in-depth interviews and the micro-data from the National Immigrant Survey (ENI) and the Continuous Sample of Labour Life (MCVL). The method used is a mix of transversal and longitudinal analysis revealing that, despite the difficulties to quantity the studied group, labour motivations must be put into question and the role of tourism becomes the core of the explanation of the migration process.

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Health and social fields in the context of lifestyle migration

Cited by 23 publications

References 33 publications

Trust in health care encounters and systems: a case study of British pensioners living in Spain

Trust in health care encounters and systems: a case study of British pensioners living in Spain

Retirement migration, the ‘other’ story: caring for frail elderly British citizens in Spain

Working and retiring in sunny Spain: Lifestyle migration further explored

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