Se Echa Pa’lante Pero Se Pierde Mucho: Dominican Return Migrants’ Identities after Retirement
Location
Room 1049
Format Type
Paper
Start Date
January 2011
End Date
January 2011
Abstract
Many Dominican migrants return to the Dominican Republic for retirement after working for many years in the U.S. We examine the identities that return-migrants claim after retirement, the ties they continue to have to the U.S., their sense of themselves in both contexts, and how discussion of their identity is affected by the interviewers’ identities. We present material from life histories of migrants who retired around the time of the interview and returned to the Dominican Republic to live.
Se Echa Pa’lante Pero Se Pierde Mucho: Dominican Return Migrants’ Identities after Retirement
Room 1049
Many Dominican migrants return to the Dominican Republic for retirement after working for many years in the U.S. We examine the identities that return-migrants claim after retirement, the ties they continue to have to the U.S., their sense of themselves in both contexts, and how discussion of their identity is affected by the interviewers’ identities. We present material from life histories of migrants who retired around the time of the interview and returned to the Dominican Republic to live.
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