Narrative constructions of (non‐)return in older migrants
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Published in:
- International Migration. - Wiley. - 2025, vol. 63, no. 3, p. 1-14
English
Much research has been carried out on (retirement) return migration, emphasizing the importance of family ties, infrastructure, the healthcare system and social relationships as factors that often boost non-return. Less research, however, has looked at the biographies of older migrants from a phenomenological and social-constructivist approach and how return is part of one's biographical narration and narrative identity in old age. In this article, we address this gap by discussing return and non-return as a tópos that is woven throughout migrants' biographical narrations. We reconstruct how one's narrated life story is told, how socio-historical contexts and discourses are part of older migrants' narratives and how (non-)return appears as part of their lived life and narrative identity. We show that staying or returning is not a simple decision but rather a central theme to which
the interviewees refer when giving sense to their life course.
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Faculty
- Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines
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Department
- Département des sciences de l'éducation et de la formation
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Education, teaching
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License
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CC BY-NC-ND
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Open access status
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hybrid
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Persistent URL
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https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/332252
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