Tag: returns of retirement
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European Labor History Network (ELHN) Conference at Uppsala University
It was great fun presenting a conference paper on returns of retirement, an extension of a blogpost I wrote earlier and based on data collected by the Museum of Yugoslavia and the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina. My paper was part of a panel entitled “Between past and future: memory and the workers’ perspective.”…
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Returns of retirement: The Gastarbeiter reflect on working abroad to retire at home
Although “returns of retirement” have been recognised as a distinct category of return migration as early as Cerase (1974), and identified as lying on the intersection of two highly important phenomena: ageing and migration (King, Cela, and Fokkema, 2021), “retirement return migration” has not yet received the full attention it deserves (Ciobanu & Ramos, 2016).…