Hall Kelly, Ono Mayumi, Kohno Ayako
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
Notre Dame Seishin University, Okayama, Japan.
Comp Migr Stud. 2021;9(1):7. doi: 10.1186/s40878-020-00217-x. Epub 2021 Feb 26.
Most research on international retirement migration has focused on the Western context and the motivations and lifestyle choices of migrants when they are healthy. This paper instead explores how British retirees in Spain and Japanese retirees in Malaysia respond to declining health and increasing care needs through bricolage as they begin to 'age in place'. The paper combines qualitative interviews, focus groups and observations collected by the authors from 215 British and Japanese international retirement migrants. We focus on two key types of bricolage behaviour: 'within-system bricolage' undertaken by migrants to help them access and navigate existing health and care systems; and 'added-to-system bricolage' that is enacted to fill gaps in health and care provision. Our analysis suggests that IRMs engage in 'transnational care bricolage' by combining multiple economic, social and legal resources across local and transnational spaces to address their health and care needs.
大多数关于国际退休移民的研究都集中在西方背景以及移民在健康时的动机和生活方式选择上。本文转而探讨在西班牙的英国退休人员和在马来西亚的日本退休人员在开始“就地养老”时如何通过拼搭来应对健康状况下降和护理需求增加的情况。本文结合了作者从215名英国和日本国际退休移民那里收集的定性访谈、焦点小组讨论和观察结果。我们关注两种关键的拼搭行为类型：移民进行的“系统内拼搭”，以帮助他们接入并在现有的医疗和护理系统中找到方向；以及为填补医疗和护理服务空白而实施的“系统外拼搭”。我们的分析表明，国际退休移民通过整合本地和跨国空间中的多种经济、社会和法律资源来满足他们的医疗和护理需求，从而参与“跨国护理拼搭”。
