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 Thélin, 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

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

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 Schilliger, York University/Toronto and University of Basel, Switzerland

11.          Migrantship in a public debate on elder care: making sense of media representations with the ethics of care lens, Sandra Torres, Department of Sociology, Uppsala University, Sweden

Conclusion: Marion Repetti, Toni Calasanti, Christopher Phillipson