Titlebook: Retirement Migration to the Global South; Global Inequalities Cornelia Schweppe Book 2022 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s),

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Looking Back to Go Forward: A Comparative Engagement with International Retirement Migration in the l South, particularly drawing on urban scholars’ consideration of the global diffusion of common processes through comparative perspectives. She shows that similar dynamics that were already apparent within Europe some time ago are also reflected in IRM to the Global South—specifically, the marketiz

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A “Mexican Home”: Defining Belonging Through Taste Among Retired Migrants in Chapala, Mexicol, class-based divisions among retirees. Drawing on Bourdieu’s understanding of the social significance of taste, her analysis of North American retirees’ taste in the “Mexican home” serves as a window into foreign retirees’ social repositioning processes as they define their belonging abroad.

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(and Dying). U.S. Retirement Migration to Mexicoy market Mexico to North Americans; and (iii) persistent global inequalities associated with neoliberalism that allow relatively privileged migrants to use international border-crossing as a way to circumnavigate the precariousness that currently accompanies aging in the U.S.

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Care as a Right and Care as Commodity: Positioning International Retirement Migration in Thailand’s ount of unpaid bills, consume more of the time of healthcare workers, and require extra services such as translation. Furthermore, wealthy foreigners who can afford private medical care are given priority for services and medicines over poorer Thai people with the same health conditions and healthcare needs.

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“Between Heaven and Hell”: Love, Sex and Intimacy—International Retirement Migration of Older Men toThis shift in position is fragile, however, because the structures of these relationships harbour specific risks which can propel the men into precarious life situations. Their analysis is based on guided interviews with older German-speaking men who migrated to Thailand and participant observations in bar districts.

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Looking Back to Go Forward: A Comparative Engagement with International Retirement Migration in the processes in the Global North, however, and suggests a need for further research to understand how the similar processes differ. She calls for an approach that is sensitive to the contexts in which those processes occur and how they are affected by countries’ unique cultural histories, social hierarchies and economic bases (Harris 2008).