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This book is a study of nostalgia, belonging and community which provides a new theoretical framework for understanding retirement migration. Through a narrative approach, we follow the journeys of retired working-class British women as they seek, recreate and construct community in a new context while their experiences of belonging and non-belonging are unravelled.

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This fascinating study reveals the complexity of people's journeys undertaken as they search for community. Their stories of pursuing this often elusive goal are ones of resourcefulness and hope. Graham Crow, Professor of Sociology and Methodology, University of Edinburgh; A welcome addition to the literature on international retirement migration, offering important and significant conceptual insights into community, belonging and home through in-depth analysis grounded in the daily lives, dreams and disappointments of working class women migrants. Highly recommended. Peter Dwyer, University of York; A beautifully crafted book confirming the importance of subjectivity and agency framed within persistent gendered social worlds. Louise Ackers, University of Salford; A good addition to the methodological literature on narratives in the particularly under-researched area of women's retirement migration experiences. Kelly Hall, Birmingham University

A welcome addition to the literature on international retirement migration, offering important and significant conceptual insights into community, belonging and home through in-depth analysis grounded in the daily lives, dreams and disappointments of working class women migrants. Highly recommended. Professor Peter Dwyer, University of York This fascinating study reveals the complexity of people's journeys undertaken as they search for community. Their stories of pursuing this often elusive goal are ones of resourcefulness and hope. Professor Graham Crow, University of Edinburgh

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Anya Ahmed is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Salford, UK, with a background in social policy and sociology. She researches and writes about economic, forced and lifestyle migration and the experiences of less heard groups in societies. She is interested in how constructions of different forms of belonging and community reflect social change and continuity.

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