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Volunteering in retirement migration: meanings and functions of charitable activities for older British residents in Spain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 August 2012

HEIKO HAAS
HEIKO HAAS*
Affiliation:
Centre for Human and Social Sciences, Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, Spain.
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Address for correspondence: Heiko Haas, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (CCHS), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), c/Albasanz 26–28, 28037 Madrid, Spain. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Volunteering is a ubiquitous and distinct feature of the British retired community in Spain, and for many older migrants volunteering constitutes a significant part of their post-retirement life abroad. Especially in the management and organisation of health and age-related problems voluntary organisations have come to play a crucial role not only for the British community but also for the Spanish host society and public health-care system. Furthermore, volunteering represents a valuable sphere of activity offering personal benefits for those who are actively engaged. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in a charity organisation in the province of Alicante on the northern Costa Blanca, this paper examines the extensive functions that volunteering and charitable activities can offer British older migrants. The implementation of voluntary work within the specific context of retirement migration is identified as a multi-functional individual and societal resource. Volunteering for the retirees is described as a true means of adaptation to a new life context, and as a highly reflexive strategy of risk minimisation and self-realisation. This implies individual benefits and opens up possibilities of active ageing. Finally, volunteering will be analysed as a performative expression of transmigrants' cultural bifocality, reflecting both a high level of commitment to Spain as well as a specific feature of British community spirit and traditionalism.

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international retirement migrationlifestyle migrationcharityvolunteeringSpainUnited Kingdomphilanthropyleisure
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Ageing & Society , Volume 33 , Issue 8 , November 2013 , pp. 1374 - 1400
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