Research project

'Left like stones in the middle of the road': The Impact of Migration on Older Persons in Rural SE Albania

Research groups:

Economy, Society and Governance
Lead researcher:

Dr Julie Vullnetari
Status:

Not active

Project overview

In this MSc dissertation project I looked at the ways in which the emigration of working-age adult children has impacted their parents who stayed in the origin villages. It draws on a small number of in-depth interviews with older people in a rural area of SouthEast Albania, whose children and grandchildren had moved internally or abroad, leaving these older parents on their own. The study sought to understand these questions of living with migration, and often loneliness, in older age in Albania from the perspective of older people, and sought to make recommendations for policy makers to improve the situation.

Staff

Lead researcher

Dr Julie Vullnetari

Associate Dean EDI

Research interests

Linking migration to development
Older people in migration and development
Critical border studies

Connect with Julie

Email: j.vullnetari@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Economy, Society and Governance

Our research addresses the changing relationships between contemporary economies, societies and politics, and focuses on the ways in which human geographies are central to these changes.