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Editorial introduction

Editorial introduction INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POPULATION GEOGRAPHY Int. J. Popul. Geogr. 4, 87±89 (1998) Russell King, Anthony M. Warnes and Allan M. Williams he focus for this ®rst theme issue of retirement migration to the list of alternative IJPG ± international retirement migra- residential mobility strategies that are avail- T tion in Europe ± is a topic on which able in their post-working lives (Cribier, 1980). there has been very little literature and That large numbers have chosen to do so, and research thus far. The reasons are not hard to have also decided to live out at least a part of identify. They include the conceptual and their retirement in one of Europe's Mediterra- de®nitional dif®culties in specifying a migra- nean regions, is clearly indicated by a review tory phenomenon that exhibits a variety of of the available (but limited) statistical data forms, from permanent relocation to seasonal which we have recently published (Williams et and temporary mobility, the lack of data to al., 1997). The last point also emphasises that measure it, and the practical problems of IRM, as a social phenomenon, is far more than conducting research across national bound- an extension of mass tourism. aries. And yet http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Population Geography Wiley

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Wiley
Copyright
Copyright © 1998 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
ISSN
1077-3495
eISSN
1099-1220
DOI
10.1002/(SICI)1099-1220(199806)4:2<87::AID-IJPG102>3.0.CO;2-W
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POPULATION GEOGRAPHY Int. J. Popul. Geogr. 4, 87±89 (1998) Russell King, Anthony M. Warnes and Allan M. Williams he focus for this ®rst theme issue of retirement migration to the list of alternative IJPG ± international retirement migra- residential mobility strategies that are avail- T tion in Europe ± is a topic on which able in their post-working lives (Cribier, 1980). there has been very little literature and That large numbers have chosen to do so, and research thus far. The reasons are not hard to have also decided to live out at least a part of identify. They include the conceptual and their retirement in one of Europe's Mediterra- de®nitional dif®culties in specifying a migra- nean regions, is clearly indicated by a review tory phenomenon that exhibits a variety of of the available (but limited) statistical data forms, from permanent relocation to seasonal which we have recently published (Williams et and temporary mobility, the lack of data to al., 1997). The last point also emphasises that measure it, and the practical problems of IRM, as a social phenomenon, is far more than conducting research across national bound- an extension of mass tourism. aries. And yet

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Published: Jun 1, 1998

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