Retirement Migration to the Global South: Global Inequalities and Entanglements
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Introduction: Retirement migration to the Global South. Global inequalities and entanglements -- Part I: Migrating to the Global South. Making sense of change, differences and social inequalities -- In search of a place like me. Making sense of character, boundaries and later-life mobility pathways in Southeast Asia -- Coloniality and Retirement Migration to the Global South -- A "Mexican Home". Defining Belonging Through Taste Among Retired Migrants in Chapala, Mexico -- Part II: Retirement migrants and their relationships with the local population: Dominations and ambiguities -- Social relationships of retirement migrants in Kenya with the local population. On devaluation practices, re-education efforts, and disappointments -- "Between heaven and hell": Love, Sex and Intimacy International retirement migration of older men to Thailand -- Transnational social relationships of international retirement migrants in Morocco. A typology -- Part III: Intertwinements of international retirement migrations: The state, markets and aging populations -- International Living (and Dying). U.S. Retirement Migration to Mexico -- Falling through the net of social protection. The precarity of retirement migrants in Thailand -- Care as right and care as commodity. Positioning international retirement migration in Thailand's old age care regime -- Looking back to go forward: a comparative engagement with International Retirement Migration in the Global South.