This book charts the development of mobility and welfare rights for
those citizens exercising their right to move or return home on
retirement under the Free Movement of Persons provisions and explores
their experiences of international mobility. It is set within the
context of 'Citizenship of the Union'. Senior citizenship? draws on
substantial primary research material to: combine detailed analysis of
the framework of EU rights shaping social with in-depth qualitative
interviews involving retired migrants across six member states (Greece,
Portugal, Italy, the United Kingdom, Sweden and Ireland); describe and
evaluate an innovative approach to comparative enquiry that combines
biographical interviews with legal and qualitative analysis; highlight
the diverse nature of retirement migration encompassing the experiences
of returning workers, migrating retirees and post retirement returnees.
Topics are explored thematically in the context of comparative social
policy, raising important and topical issues around the future of social
citizenship and the implications of the exercise of agency, in an
increasingly global and mobile world.