Swimming Against the Current: The Migration of Elders to the South

Pascual Gerardo Garcia and Ronaldo Munck
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Pascual Gerardo Garcia: The Economics Department of the Technical University of Loja, Ecuador
Ronaldo Munck: Visiting Professor of International Development at the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

Migration Letters, 2020, vol. 17, issue 2, 10

Abstract: Every day there are more elderlypeople who decide to live in a different country from their country of birth. This phenomenon of older migrants reveals a distinct counter-current from the economically more-developed Northern countries to the less-developed and developing South, therefore requiring a new and different theoretical analysis that does not fit into the pre-existing frameworks of labour migration and development. For some researchers, these migrants are considered residential tourists, who have no home or place of belonging neither in the developing and less-developed areas nor within existing theoretical frameworks.In order to conceptualize trends and identify the patterns of this phenomenon, this investigation will examine the migration of retirees and/or pensioners from the northern hemisphere who have settled in Vilcabamba (Southern Ecuador) through a theoretically informed engagement with key informants and a series of qualitative semi-structured interviews. It is hoped that this project will enable further research in this largely uncharted line of research on the flow of migration that ‘swims against the current’.

Keywords: Pensioner migration; residential migration; ageing migration; privileged migration; Ecuador (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.33182/ml.v17i2.884

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