Seeking Access to Long-Term Care: Legal Consciousness of Dutch Retirement Migrants on the Costa Blanca

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  • Anoeshka Gehring Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

Keywords:

Retirement migration, long-term care, legal consciousness, transnationalism, Migración de retiro, atención a largo plazo, conciencia jurídica, transnacionalismo

Abstract

As EU citizens, Dutch retirement migrants can move and reside freely within the European Union. This enables their fluid migratory pattern and the formation of transnational ties between the Netherlands and Spain. However, national laws and nationally organised welfare systems within the EU may bind some retirement migrants to one of the two countries. Retirement migrants move at a stage in their lifecycle associated with a possible deterioration of health, therefore they are forced to think about accessing care provisions in the Netherlands and/or Spain. By focusing on the ways Dutch retirement migrants talk about and seek access to long-term care in both countries, this contribution explores the legal consciousness of Dutch retirement migrants in a transnational setting. Since legal consciousness research mainly focuses on a nation-state setting, this contribution argues that theories on legal consciousness should develop further in order to open its analysis frame to include transnational migrants who have to deal with more than one legal system.

Como ciudadanos de la UE, los emigrantes jubilados holandeses pueden circular y residir libremente en la Unión Europea. Esto permite un patrón migratorio fluido y la formación de lazos transnacionales entre los Países Bajos y España. Sin embargo, las leyes nacionales y los sistemas de bienestar social organizados a nivel nacional dentro de la UE pueden obligar a algunos emigrantes jubilados hacia uno de los dos países. Los emigrantes jubilados se mueven en una etapa de su ciclo de vida asociada a un posible deterioro de la salud, por lo tanto, se ven obligados a pensar y organizar el acceso a los cuidados sanitarios en los Países Bajos y/o España. Al centrarse en los modos en los que los emigrantes jubilados holandeses hablan y buscan acceso a los cuidados a largo plazo en ambos países, esta contribución explora la conciencia jurídica de los emigrantes jubilados holandeses en un entorno transnacional. Dado que la investigación jurídica consciente se centra principalmente en un ajuste de estado-nación, esta contribución sostiene que las teorías sobre la conciencia jurídica deberían llegar más allá con el fin de abrir la ventana de análisis para incluir a los emigrantes transnacionales que tienen que hacer frente a más de un sistema legal.

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Author Biography

Anoeshka Gehring, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

Anoeshka Gehring is a PhD student at the Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands. Her PhD research compares four groups of retirement migrants who move within and across the borders of the EU: Dutch retirement migrants who migrate to Spain or Turkey and Turkish and Spanish return retirement migrants. The general focus of the research is on the ways in which retirement migrants arrange access to formal and informal social security provisions. Radboud University Nijmegen, Centre for Migration Law, PO. Box. 9049, 6500 KK Nijmegen, The Netherlands. a.gehring@jur.ru.nl

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Published

13-11-2012

How to Cite

Gehring, A. (2012) “Seeking Access to Long-Term Care: Legal Consciousness of Dutch Retirement Migrants on the Costa Blanca”, Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 3(6), pp. 1023–1040. Available at: https://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/239 (Accessed: 5 November 2024).