RT Journal Article
T1 The best welfare deal: retirement migrants as welfare maximizers
A1 Calzada Gutiérrez, Inés
A1 Martínez Cassinello, Rafael
A1 Páez, Virginia
A1 Hervás, Andrea
AB Retirement 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).
PB MDPI
SN 2075-4698
YR 2023
FD 2023-04-19
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/103240
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/103240
LA eng
NO Calzada, 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
NO 2023 Descuento MDPI
DS Docta Complutense
RD 5 oct 2024