Seasonal Community and Resident’s Experience of Place: Case Study of an Evolving Retirement Migration Destination

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10.2991/assehr.k.210902.036How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Seasonal community, Retirement migration, Home, Laoxiang

Abstract

Retirement migration as a typical type of mobility characterizes the large scale population movement in China. Interviews conducted with seasonal retirement migrants, local residents and other social parts in Sanya reveal that traditional concept of home is challenged with increased mobility, and social distinction marks the difference between retirement second home and traditional home. A heuristic framework on domains of meaning of home in old age by Oswald & Wahl (2005) is employed in this research. As an important social strategy to cope with change, acquaintance society formed by “laoxiang” is welcomed by retirement migrants to retain sense of familiarity and one’s social status. And it initiates new thoughts on change of Chinese culture.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yuefang Wu
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/09/04
TI  - Seasonal Community and Resident’s Experience of Place: Case Study of an Evolving Retirement Migration Destination
BT  - Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities. (Philosophy of Being Human as the Core of Interdisciplinary Research) (ICCESSH 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 221
EP  - 232
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210902.036
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210902.036
ID  - Wu2021
ER  -