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Ageing well: the time-spaces of possibility for older female Latvian migrants in the UK

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posted on 2023-06-09, 06:44 authored by Aija Lulle, Russell King
In this article, we explore the relationships between ageing, place and migration based on life history interviews with 37 female Latvian migrants in the UK. Reflecting an approach that sees migration as both embodied and emplaced, we conceptualise ageing and migration as entwined becomings that reconfigure the possibilities of a ‘better life’ in different time–spaces. Our approach combines time-geography with a well-being-based approach to migration constraints and outcomes. Our stress is on vitality – the ways in which migrants are able to mobilise resources and enact agency even in an environment where some aspects of life and working conditions are restrictive and exploitative. Hence, older Latvian women are able to transgress negative perceptions of ageing in their home country and achieve a measure of empowerment, both economic and psychosocial by moving to the UK.

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Publication status

  • Published

Journal

Social and Cultural Geography

ISSN

1464-9365

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Issue

3

Volume

17

Page range

444-462

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  • Geography Publications

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Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2017-06-15

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