eprintid: 4213
rev_number: 4
eprint_status: archive
userid: 1
dir: disk0/00/00/42/13
datestamp: 2023-07-06 07:13:26
lastmod: 2023-07-06 07:13:26
status_changed: 2023-07-06 07:13:26
type: thesis
metadata_visibility: show
sword_depositor: 1
creators_name: Oldejans, Lotte
creators_id: S3667723
creators_email: l.h.oldejans@student.rug.nl
title: Aging out of place in Enschede
ispublished: unpub
full_text_status: public
abstract: The combination of aging and migration, two key demographic trends, results in an increasing share of older people with a migration background. While aging policies and research have highlighted the benefits of aging in place, it is not clear how this is experienced by people with a forced migration background. Since forced migration has major implications for place attachment, it is expected that older people with a forced migration background may experience aging out of place. Therefore, this research explores how place attachment is impacted by four different dimensions of insideness: autobiographical, cultural, social, and physical. Five semi-structured interviews were conducted with older people aged 53 and above with a forced migration background living in Enschede, and analysed by applying deductive and inductive coding. Despite the major life disruptions and lost resources because of their forced migration, all interviewees expressed a sense of place attachment in Enschede, fostered by a sense of insideness. Researchers and policy makers are recommended to take an inclusive approach to aging in place and recognize various challenges and opportunities for heterogeneous aging populations.
date: 2023
pages: 31
thesis_type: bachelor
degree_programme: SGP
tutors_name: Oosterhoff, A.T.
tutors_name: Aviisah, M.A.
tutors_organization: Fac. Ruimtelijke wetenschappen, Basiseenheid Demografie
tutors_organization: Fac. Ruimtelijke wetenschappen, Basiseenheid Demografie
tutors_email: A.T.Oosterhoff@rug.nl
tutors_email: M.A.Aviisah@rug.nl
security: public
keywords_local: Place attachment
keywords_local: Aging in place
keywords_local: Forced migration
keywords_local: Insideness
language_iso: en
date_issued: 2023-07-05
citation:   Oldejans, Lotte  (2023) Aging out of place in Enschede.  Bachelor thesis.   
document_url: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/4213/1/Thesis%20Final%20Version%20Lotte%20Oldejans.pdf