Coping with ageing: An historical longitudinal study of internal return migrations later in life in the Netherlands
<b>Background</b>: A return migration later in life can be seen as a coping strategy to deal with care needs and other difficulties. Understanding these return migrations requires a comprehensive approach that takes previous migrant trajectories into account. <b>Objective</b&...
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| description | <b>Background</b>: A return migration later in life can be seen as a coping strategy to deal with care needs and other difficulties. Understanding these return migrations requires a comprehensive approach that takes previous migrant trajectories into account. <b>Objective</b>: This study aims to investigate how long-term migrant trajectories, other relevant life course factors, and birth cohort impacted the risk of return migration later in life in the period 1900-1994. <b>Methods</b>: Using longitudinal data from the Historical Sample of the Netherlands, we combine sequence analysis and continuous-time event history analysis for recurrent events to estimate the effect of migrant trajectories from birth to age 50 and other individual characteristics on the risks of older adults' return migrations to birth/childhood and adulthood dwelling places; of short-, medium-, and long-distance returns; and of returns to rural and urban dwelling places. We also examine if these risks have changed in the 20th century Netherlands. <b>Results</b>: We identify nine distinct clusters of internal migrant trajectories based on residential municipality size. Persons with a stepwise migration trajectory are more likely to return later in life to places where they resided during adulthood. Deteriorating health status, low socioeconomic status, or having no partner are associated with a higher propensity to return to a birthplace or childhood dwelling place. However, returns to places of origin or childhood, to places of adulthood, and long-distance migrations decreased over time. <b>Contribution</b>: The results underline the diversity of return migration types among elderly people according to past migrant experiences and other demographic events, indicating the importance of expanding the notion of return migration beyond place of origin. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-214c1deb0d454c7e886b0e4941e7f4112023-08-22T11:19:16ZengMax Planck Institute for Demographic ResearchDemographic Research1435-98712022-04-01462710.4054/DemRes.2022.46.274704Coping with ageing: An historical longitudinal study of internal return migrations later in life in the NetherlandsDolores Sesma Carlos0Michel Oris1Jan Kok2Radboud Universiteit NijmegenUniversité de GenèveRadboud Universiteit Nijmegen<b>Background</b>: A return migration later in life can be seen as a coping strategy to deal with care needs and other difficulties. Understanding these return migrations requires a comprehensive approach that takes previous migrant trajectories into account. <b>Objective</b>: This study aims to investigate how long-term migrant trajectories, other relevant life course factors, and birth cohort impacted the risk of return migration later in life in the period 1900-1994. <b>Methods</b>: Using longitudinal data from the Historical Sample of the Netherlands, we combine sequence analysis and continuous-time event history analysis for recurrent events to estimate the effect of migrant trajectories from birth to age 50 and other individual characteristics on the risks of older adults' return migrations to birth/childhood and adulthood dwelling places; of short-, medium-, and long-distance returns; and of returns to rural and urban dwelling places. We also examine if these risks have changed in the 20th century Netherlands. <b>Results</b>: We identify nine distinct clusters of internal migrant trajectories based on residential municipality size. Persons with a stepwise migration trajectory are more likely to return later in life to places where they resided during adulthood. Deteriorating health status, low socioeconomic status, or having no partner are associated with a higher propensity to return to a birthplace or childhood dwelling place. However, returns to places of origin or childhood, to places of adulthood, and long-distance migrations decreased over time. <b>Contribution</b>: The results underline the diversity of return migration types among elderly people according to past migrant experiences and other demographic events, indicating the importance of expanding the notion of return migration beyond place of origin.https://www.demographic-research.org/articles/volume/46/27agingevent history analysislife coursemigrationssequence analysistrajectories |
| spellingShingle | Dolores Sesma Carlos Michel Oris Jan Kok Coping with ageing: An historical longitudinal study of internal return migrations later in life in the Netherlands Demographic Research aging event history analysis life course migrations sequence analysis trajectories |
| title | Coping with ageing: An historical longitudinal study of internal return migrations later in life in the Netherlands |
| title_full | Coping with ageing: An historical longitudinal study of internal return migrations later in life in the Netherlands |
| title_fullStr | Coping with ageing: An historical longitudinal study of internal return migrations later in life in the Netherlands |
| title_full_unstemmed | Coping with ageing: An historical longitudinal study of internal return migrations later in life in the Netherlands |
| title_short | Coping with ageing: An historical longitudinal study of internal return migrations later in life in the Netherlands |
| title_sort | coping with ageing an historical longitudinal study of internal return migrations later in life in the netherlands |
| topic | aging event history analysis life course migrations sequence analysis trajectories |
| url | https://www.demographic-research.org/articles/volume/46/27 |
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