Growing old in exile – a longitudinal study of migrant women from Turkey

摘要: ABSTRACTSome studies on migrants and ageing focus the question of return; others how migrants, who grow old in their countries destination, ‘age place’, including whether they turn to children or public host country provisions for care support. However, issues return place may both hold significance individual migrants’ lives. To investigate changing expectations age throughout life course, this paper draws longitudinal interviews with migrant women from Turkey live Denmark. We function proximity children. Using two were interviewed three times over decades as case studies, analysis shows that middle life, share returning Turkey, but these plans are perpetually postponed. As age, must face inability leave behind – hence will never return. This realisation brings fore issue where th...