Oliver, Caroline; (2022) Looking Back to Go Forward: A Comparative Engagement with International Retirement Migration in the Global South. In: Schweppe, Cornelia, (ed.) Retirement migration to the Global South: global inequalities and entanglements. (pp. 229-250). Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, UK.

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Abstract

Caroline Oliver provides a comparative analysis between the first wave of intra-European International Retirement Migration (IRM) and IRM to the Global South, particularly drawing on urban scholars’ consideration of the global diffusion of common processes through comparative perspectives. She shows that similar dynamics that were already apparent within Europe some time ago are also reflected in IRM to the Global South—specifically, the marketization of IRM, its inherent dangers of fostering dependencies on foreign investment and gentrification processes in the destination countries, and the (re)production of inequalities in relationships and cultural distance. She emphasizes these similarities not just as simple replications from previous processes in the Global North, however, and suggests a need for further research to understand how the similar processes differ. She calls for an approach that is sensitive to the contexts in which those processes occur and how they are affected by countries’ unique cultural histories, social hierarchies and economic bases (Harris 2008).

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