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Aging, Mobility and Migration in Latin America

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Environmental Gerontology in Europe and Latin America

Part of the book series: International Perspectives on Aging ((Int. Perspect. Aging,volume 13))

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This chapter is aimed at gaining insights from the review and assessment of scientific contributions in the field of international mobility of older people in the Latin American countries to capture the main outstanding research ideas on elderly mobility. An initial analysis of concepts and contributions will discover the mixture and confusion of concepts applicable to measure the older people mobility, as conditioned by the described geographical locations and authors’ positions. Secondly, in spite of some general socio-demographic features similar to those described in other geographical areas, a finer description of individual demographic profiles will be also a common feature in the studies reviewed. The lack of accurate data sources is contributing to this situation. Thirdly, motivations and factors will usually appear as the story lines the elderly movers argue to found their mobility behaviour in connection with the places in which they settle. Spaces and locations are not neutral objects but goods also promoted and ‘sold’ by international companies, States and local agents and authorities to foster international mobility. Finally, mobile older people searching to settle abroad are inevitable agents to profoundly change territories and environmental settings and to local societal transformations. The challenges for the future are in the line of overcoming coexistence troubles in sensitive Latin American locations.

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Rodríguez-Rodríguez, V. (2016). Aging, Mobility and Migration in Latin America. In: Sánchez-González, D., Rodríguez-Rodríguez, V. (eds) Environmental Gerontology in Europe and Latin America. International Perspectives on Aging, vol 13. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21419-1_4

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