‘Does your granny eat grass?’ On mass migration, care drain and the fate of older people in rural Albania

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

• Migration forms

  • Family and marriage migration
  • Irregular migration
  • Lifestyle and retirement migration

• Migration infrastructures

  • Human smugglers
  • Economics facilitating travel & migration
  • Tourism and migration

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

• Socio-cultural consequences

  • Family relations and migration
  • Upbringing of children and migration

• Socio-economic consequences

  • Remittances

• Transversal consequences

  • Spatial consequences
  • Age-related migration consequences

Migration governance

• Migration policy and law

  • Immigration admission and control (general)
  • Family reunification policies
  • Policies on irregular migration

Geographies

• Scope

  • Rural

• UN Countries

  • Albania
  • Greece
  • Italy