Analysing migrants' ageing in place as embodied practices of embedding through time: ‘Kilburn is not Kilburn any more’

Louise Ryan*, Majella Kilkey, Magdolna Lőrinc, Obert Tawodzera

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Abstract

There is growing attention to how people navigate and make sense of particular places through the ageing process. Against this backdrop, there is increasing research on ageing in contexts of migration. Although much of this research focuses on retirement and return migration, comparatively less is known about migrants who remain in the destination society, especially in advanced old age. Drawing on qualitative data, we analyse the experiences of three groups of ageing migrants who have been less visible in research and policy (Caribbean, Irish, and Polish) and of those living in two U.K. sites (London and Yorkshire). Using the concept of embedding, we analyse migrants' identifications with and attachment to particular places over time. In so doing, we highlight not only how migrants negotiate dynamic local places through embodied ageing processes but also how these negotiations may be mediated by wider sociopolitical events including Brexit and the ‘Windrush scandal’.
Original languageEnglish
Article numbere2420
Number of pages10
JournalPopulation, Space and Place
Volume27
Issue number3
Early online date24 Mar 2021
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2021

Bibliographical note

Acknowledgments:
The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the (UK) Economic and Social Research Council for the Sustainable Care: connecting people and systems programme, Grant reference: ES/P009255/1, 2017-21, Principal Investigator Sue Yeandle, University of Sheffield.

We also wish to acknowledge the participants in London and Yorkshire who gave so generously of their time. We are indebted to the many community organisations who supported this research but whom we do not name because of risk of undermining the anonymity of our research participants.

We are grateful to our colleagues at the University of Sheffield, Sue Yeandle and Julie Walsh, for their helpful insights on an earlier draft on this paper, as well as the editors and reviewers of Population, Space and Place.

Keywords

  • ageing
  • Caribbean
  • embedding
  • Irish
  • migrants
  • place
  • Polish

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