TY - BOOK AU - Calzada,Inés ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Retirement Migrants and Dependency: Caring for Sun Seekers SN - 9783031691225 AV - HM716-753.2 PY - 2024/// CY - Cham PB - Springer Nature Switzerland, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - Sociology KW - Social groups KW - Emigration and immigration KW - Social aspects KW - Age distribution (Demography) KW - Social medicine KW - Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging KW - Sociology of Migration KW - Aging Population KW - Human Migration KW - Health, Medicine and Society N1 - Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Destination Spain: Sociopolitical Dimensions of a Sociodemographic Phenomenon -- Chapter 3 Theoretical Approaches to Retirement Migration -- Chapter 4 Retired but not Resigned. International Retirement Migrants’ Long-Term Care Strategies on the Spanish Mediterranean -- Chapter 5 Care for Elderly European Immigrants in the Spanish Public Social Services System -- Chapter 6 Exploring Language and Communication: Factors Impeding Retirement Migrants Access to Social Services -- Chapter 7 Another Family: Mutual Aid, Friendship and Charities amongst European Retired Migrants in Spain -- Chapter 8 Transnational Family Care and British International Retirement Migrants in Spain -- Chapter 9 Norwegian Snowbirds, Retired Migrants and Offshore Elderly Care In Alicante -- Chapter 10 What comes after retirement migration? Patterns of death and return from Spain -- Chapter 11 Exploring Social Rights Challenges in International Retirement Migration: Agency, Support Networks and Structure N2 - This book tells the story of what happens when the “adventure” of living in Spain turns complicated due to the emergence of care needs derived from loss of autonomy. It investigates the care strategies of retirement migrants that must navigate a foreign welfare system and a different “culture of care”, and how the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the difficulties they experience accessing care services and information. The book condenses the results of a 4-year (2019-2022) research project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science under the title “Retirement migration and the Social Services” and applies a mixed methods approach that combined statistical analysis of secondary data; telephonic interviews with the coordinators of Social Services in more than 80 Spanish municipalities with a high presence of retirement migrants; ethnographic case studies in four municipalities (observation, interviews, focus groups); and an online survey with social workers. Inés Calzada is Associate Professor at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-69122-5 ER -