The recent touristification of the historic downtown quarters of many European cities is not
without its social, spatial and economic impacts. In turn, many global cities show a lack of …

The Great Recession (2008–2014) and the consequent crises in both the national financial
and production systems have led the Portuguese administration to adopt tourism and urban …

As the world has become more interconnected due to the invention and innovation of
communication and transportation technologies, more individuals than ever before have …

Discussions on migration and development geography have both suffered from 'ageism': an
overwhelming preoccupation with children and the young in the latter and widespread …

This chapter explores lifestyle migration from the vantage point of a global sociology of
migration. It picks up strands of the transnational approach to migration studies and asks …

This special section builds on previous scholarship on geographies of ageing, and on
relational and transnational approaches to age and migration, to assert the significance of …

1 Introduction 1 2 Retirement migration 13 3 Precarity and the welfare state in home and
host countries 28 4 Esca** economic precarity 46 5 Esca** ageism 67 6 Relying on …

Retirement migration is an increasingly common phenomenon. It involves the relocation of
retirees from richer countries of the global North to places in the world where the costs of …

Over the past two decades, the need to create 'age-friendly cities and communities'(AFCC)
has emerged as a major theme in policies aimed at improving old people's physical and …

Matthew Hayes examines how older adult migrants to Essaouira, Morocco, make sense of
and give meaning to perceptions of material inequality and difference that are part of their …