{"product_id":"retirement-migration-hardback","title":"Retirement Migration - Hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe book is the first ethnographic study of international retirement migration and offers a sometimes surprising picture of the potentials, seductions and limitations of the lifestyles. People envision retirement as freedom from responsibilities through shedding the restrictive shackles of their former selves in a time of life dedicated to fun, friendship, healthy activity and individual fulfillment. However, as Oliver documents, a number of contradictions underpin the pursuits of such a lifestyle. She shows how retirees must balance time-use to achieve both freedoms and busy social schedules -- their activities, their relationships, and their cultural identities – to balance both the security of nationality with the discovery of the new. \u003cem\u003eRetirement Migration\u003c\/em\u003e gives a critical insight into the new ways aging identities are experienced by a growing number of older people in Western societies today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45546663608558,"sku":"9780415372718","price":244.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780415372718.jpg?v=1720237734","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/retirement-migration-hardback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}