Titlebook: Retirement Home? Ageing Migrant Workers in France and the Question of Return ; Alistair Hunter Book‘‘‘‘‘‘‘‘ 2018 The Editor(s) (if applica

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2364-4087 a massive state-led housing policy for migrant workers.This.This open access book offers new insights into the ageing-migration nexus and the nature of home. Documenting the hidden world of France’s migrant worker hostels, it explores why older North and West African men continue to live past retir

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,Journey’s End? Old Age in France’s Migrant Worker Hostels,e’ male migrants who are retired or economically inactive will be among the most likely candidates for return to countries of origin in older age. However, the behaviour of the population to which this book is devoted – older North and West African men living in migrant worker hostels in France – is

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Points of Departure: Geographical, Historical and Theoretical Contexts,e vast majority of hostel residents hail from France’s former colonies in North and West Africa. Section . charts the geography and history of migration from these areas. Section . pursues the historical theme by elaborating how France’s migrant worker hostel accommodation came into being in the lat

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,Home/Sick: The Health–Migration Order,being in . health was a prerequisite for coming to France in the first place, given the rigorous recruitment practices which prioritised physical strength and conditioning. Later in life, health again orders migration, but this time it is the fact of . health which dictates some people’s trips to Fr

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Loss of Autonomy, Dying and the Penultimate Voyage, men are in a fit state to travel: eventually, ill-health and/or loss of autonomy force the men to choose where to live out their days. Sect. . considers the possibility of returning home. While some returns in a situation of reduced autonomy are voluntary, others are occasioned by elements of const

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Conclusion: The Returns from Theory and a New Approach to Home,retirement. Given the limited explanatory value of the arguments from neoclassical economics and family localisation, an assessment is made of the rival theories which were proposed: the new economics of labour migration, structuralism, transnationalism and social systems theory. In the light of the