An intersectional approach to ageing and migration: between age and place in Bolivian migrations Seminar

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Migration research is obsessed with youthfulness and with migrants. Yet migration affects migrants and non-migrants alike, the young and the old. Based on current research with migrants’ parents in their country of origin, Bolivia, this paper explores the heterogeneous consequences of migration on the older ‘left behind’. Qualitative life story interviews are used to explore how the migrants’ parents experience the migration of their children and how they deal with their absence. The findings suggest very different experiences in urban, rural and peri-urban areas, which span the vulnerability – opportunity spectrum. The paper challenges stereotypical representations of vulnerability of the migrants’ parents and of older age in general. You are warmly invited to join Dr Julie Vullnetari and colleagues from Geography and Environment who will be hosting this lunch-time seminar. Staff and students working in the areas of development, migration, ageing, gender, intersectionalities, social inequalities, qualitative research methods, and Latin American studies, might find this event of particular interest.