The best welfare deal: retirement migrants as welfare maximizers

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dc.contributor.authorCalzada Gutiérrez, Inés
dc.contributor.authorMartínez Cassinello, Rafael
dc.contributor.authorPáez, Virginia
dc.contributor.authorHervás, Andrea
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-19T09:17:05Z
dc.date.available2024-04-19T09:17:05Z
dc.date.issued2023-04-19
dc.description2023 Descuento MDPI
dc.description.abstractRetirement migration within Europe has increased enormously since the 1990s. It now involves millions of elderly Europeans moving from Central/Northern Europe (UK, Germany, Scandinavia) to Mediterranean countries (Malta, Portugal, Spain) in search of a better quality of life. Most previous research departs from an ethnographic perspective to look at the personal experiences and motivations of retirement migrants. In this paper, we adopt a macro-level perspective to address the use that retirement migrants make of the European framework of social rights. We aim to understand (a) to what extent do retirement migrants living in Spain ask for help from the local Social Services when they enter into dependency? (b) Do retirement migrants engage in strategies to maximize their welfare rights? To answer these questions, we carried out qualitative phone interviews with the coordinators of Social Services that cover 80 (out of 119) of the Spanish municipalities with larger numbers of retirement migrants (more than 30% of elderly residents are foreigners).
dc.description.departmentDepto. de Sociología: Metodología y Teoría
dc.description.facultyFac. de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología
dc.description.fundingtypeAPC financiada por la UCM
dc.description.refereedTRUE
dc.description.statuspub
dc.identifier.citationCalzada, Inés, Virginia Páez, Rafael Martínez-Cassinello, and Andrea Hervás. 2023. "The Best Welfare Deal: Retirement Migrants as Welfare Maximizers" Societies 13, no. 4: 102. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc13040102
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/soc13040102
dc.identifier.issn2075-4698
dc.identifier.officialurlhttps://doi.org/10.3390/soc13040102
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/103240
dc.issue.number4: 102
dc.journal.titleSocieties
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherMDPI
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.accessRightsopen access
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject.keywordRetirement migration
dc.subject.keywordSocial Services
dc.subject.keywordDependency
dc.subject.keywordSocial work
dc.subject.keywordElderly care
dc.subject.keywordMobility
dc.subject.keywordIntra-European migration
dc.subject.ucmCiencias Sociales
dc.subject.unesco63 Sociología
dc.titleThe best welfare deal: retirement migrants as welfare maximizers
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