Retirement Migration to the Global South

Cornelia Schweppe, PhD, is a Full Professor of Social Pedagogy at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (Germany), Institute of Education.

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.