Senior citizenship? ：Retirement, migration and welfare in the European Union

Publication subTitle ：Retirement, migration and welfare in the European Union

Author： Ackers   Louise (Author)   Dwyer   Peter (Author)  

Publisher： Policy Press‎

Publication year： 2002

E-ISBN: 9781847425485

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781861342645

Subject： C91 Sociology

Keyword： Welfare & benefit systems

Language： ENG

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Description

This book charts the development of mobility and welfare rights for those citizens exercising their right to move or return home on retirement under the Free Movement of Persons provisions and explores their experiences of international mobility. It is set within the context of 'Citizenship of the Union'. Senior citizenship? draws on substantial primary research material to: combine detailed analysis of the framework of EU rights shaping social with in-depth qualitative interviews involving retired migrants across six member states (Greece, Portugal, Italy, the United Kingdom, Sweden and Ireland); describe and evaluate an innovative approach to comparative enquiry that combines biographical interviews with legal and qualitative analysis; highlight the diverse nature of retirement migration encompassing the experiences of returning workers, migrating retirees and post retirement returnees. Topics are explored thematically in the context of comparative social policy, raising important and topical issues around the future of social citizenship and the implications of the exercise of agency, in an increasingly global and mobile world.

Chapter

SENIOR CITIZENSHIP?

Contents

List of tables and figures

List of acronyms

List of cases and European Union legislation

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

‘Citizenship of the Union’ and mobility

Welfare, the ‘problems of old age’ and EU social policy

Different worlds of welfare: international retirement migration and the importance of location

Outline of chapters

2. Citizenship, well-being and agency in the European Union

Introduction

Citizenship, equality and European Union social policy

Citizenship and well-being

Citizenship, equality and contribution

Citizenship and agency

Conclusions

3. Shades of citizenship: the legal status of retirement migrants

Introduction

The right to freedom of movement in community law: the provisions

Issues of eligibility and the ‘personal scope’ of entitlement under the free movement of persons’ provisions

The derived rights of family members (joiners) and the concept of family in Community law

The legal status of post-retirement migrants (PRM)

The legal status of returnees

Defining ‘habitually resident’

Temporary residence and the legal status of ‘tourists’ and‘ seasonal’ migrants

The impact of Article 18 on social entitlement

From legal rights to citizenship experience: the problem of fixed categories

Conclusions

4. Movements to some purpose?

Introduction

The extent of senior citizens’ retirement migration in the EU

IRM triggers and motivations to movement: an overview

Conclusions

5. Health/care, well-being and citizenship

Introduction

Health/care services for senior citizens in Greece, Italy, Portugal, the UK, Ireland and Sweden

Retirement migration, health/care and well-being

Conclusion: negotiating the mixed economy of health/care across European social space

6. Money matters

Social security for senior citizens in the EU: some themes and issues

Recent reforms: pension systems in Greece, Italy, Portugal, the UK, Ireland and Sweden

Money and movement: maximising benefits?

Gender issues

The benefits of being a ‘pensioner’ in Ireland

Conclusions

7. Moving and caring

Introduction

Reciprocity and interdependence: retired migrants as care providers and recipients

Conclusions

8. Conclusions: retirement migration: the challenge to social citizenship?

Dependency and disability

The legal valuation of unpaid work

Citizenship and human rights

Fixed laws, fluid lives

The limitations of formal equality and rights

Subsidiarity and spatial inequality

Citizenship of the Union: the ‘concealed multiplier of occupational success’?

Welfare tourists or active agents?

Bibliography

Appendix: Methods outline

A qualitative approach

The sample

Data handling and analysis

A note on the citation of interview material

Index

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