Résumé

Older migrants constitute a heterogeneous population, an aspect that is rarely acknowledged in the literature. This chapter shows how older migrants from the same country of origin but with different migration contexts make use of welfare provisions in their host country. By migration contexts, we mean socio-political situations in the home and host countries at the time of migration, and the life course stage at which migration occurs. Use of welfare provisions are defined as the ways that migrants articulate public, third sector and informal providers. The analysis draws on twenty-six biographical narrative interviews with older Romanian migrants in Switzerland and in neighbouring France. The outcome points to two groups of older migrants: former political refugees who arrived in Switzerland when young and aged in place, and recently arrived family migrants who mainly joined their adult children abroad. The two groups of older migrants exhibit important differences in the use of welfare provisions, and the location where those are accessed.

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