Pensioners on the move: social security and trans-border retirement migration in Asia and Europe

Abstract

Established migration theories have long asserted international migration to be a venture of the young and healthy. The workshop 'Pensioners on the Move', however, focused on another group exhibiting quite different migratory behaviour: they do not move from low-income to high-income countries but vice-versa; they don't move to work, but to not work. This mobility is neither tourism nor migration, but shares elements of both.