Ageing and Migration in a Global Context: Challenges for Welfare States

Introduction: Marion Repetti, Toni Calasanti, Christopher Phillipson

Part 1: Support and Care of Immigrants Ageing in Place

1. Migration, transnational ties and intergenerational support: constructions of home and family life. Dr. Prof. Chris Phillipson, School of Social Sciences, Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing, The University of Manchester, UK, Dr. Tine Buffel, School of Social Sciences, Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing, The University of Manchester, UK

2. Invisible old age: ethnography of a soup kitchen in Switzerland, Sandra Th幨in, University of Lausanne and University of Applied Sciences and Arts, School of Health Work, Lausanne, Switzerland

3. Between care and contract: ageing immigrants, self-appointed helpers and ambiguous belonging in the Danish welfare state, Dr. Assistant Prof. Sara Lei Sparre, Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University, Denmark, Dr. Assistant Prof. Mikkel Rytter, Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University, Denmark

4. Contexts of migration, integration and welfare configurations: The case of Romanian older migrants in Switzerland, Dr. Ruxandra Oana Ciobanu, Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Gerontology and Vulnerability, University of Geneva & Swiss National Centre of Competences in Research LIVES, Switzerland, Dr. Prof. Claudio Bolzman, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, School of Social Work, Geneva & Swiss National Centre of Competences in Research LIVES, Switzerland

5. Care of elderly parents in transnational families: Gender, boundaries and spaces within a restrictive legal immigration framework, Dr. Amel Mahfoudh, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, School of Social Work, Sierre, Switzerland, Dr. Prof. Barbara Waldis, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, School of Social Work, Sierre, Switzerland, Dr. Ass. Prof. Stefanie Kurt, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, School of Social Work, Sierre, Switzerland

Part 2: Migration as a Response to Support and Care Challenges of Ageing

6. Dependence and Retirement Migration: The Importance of Inequalities. Dr. Prof. Toni Calasanti, Department of Sociology, Virginia Tech, USA, Dr. Marion Repetti, Department of Sociology, Virginia Tech, USA.

7. Linked lives, dividing borders: From transnational solidarity to family reunification of an older parent, Dr. Prof. Claudio Bolzman, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, School of Social Work, Geneva & Swiss National Centre of Competences in Research LIVES, Switzerland

8. Anticipating retirement in the context of migration: The case of Peruvians in Switzerland, Dr. Romina Seminario, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Dr. Prof. Nicky Le Feuvre, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

9. Elders moving between Turkey and Germany, Dr. Prof. Kira Kosnick, Goethe-Universit酹 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Dr. Elifcan Karacan, Goethe-Universit酹 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Dr. Cagri Kahveci, Goethe-Universit酹 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Part 3:

10. Migration and the welfare state's life-course model in the Global North: A Swiss illustration, Dr. Marion Repetti, Virginia Tech, USA, Dr. Sarah Schill