Volume 46 - Article 27 | Pages 767–808  

Coping with ageing: An historical longitudinal study of internal return migrations later in life in the Netherlands

By Dolores Sesma Carlos, Michel Oris, Jan Kok

References

Abbott, A. and Tsay, A. (2000). Sequence analysis and optimal matching methods in sociology. Sociological Methods and Research 29(1): 3–33.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Aboderin, I. (2004). Modernisation and ageing theory revisited : current explanations of recent developing world and historical Western shifts in material family support for older people. Ageing and Society 24(1): 29–50.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Allison, P.D. (2014). Event history and survival analysis. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Andersson, G. and Drefahl, S. (2017). Long-distance migration and mortality in Sweden: Testing the salmon bias and healthy migrant hypotheses. Population, Space and Place 23(4): 1–11.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Arber, S. and Ginn, J. (2005). Gender dimensions of the age shift. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Bairoch, P. and Goertz, G. (1986). Factors of urbanisation in the nineteenth century developed countries: a descriptive and econometric analysis. Urban Studies 23(4): 285–305.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Bloem, B., Tilburg, T.V., and Thomese, F. (2008). Residential mobility in older Dutch adults: Influence of later life events. International Journal of Ageing and Later Life 1(3): 2144.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Boele, A., Störmer, C., Gellatly, C., and De Moor, T. (2018). Distant relatives? Demographic determinants of long-term developments in intergenerational proximity , The Netherlands 1650–1899. The History of the Family 23(3): 359–387.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Bolzman, C. (2013). Ageing immigrants and the question of return: new answers to an old dilemma? In: Percival, J. (ed.). Return migration in later life: International perspectives. Bristol University Press, Policy Press: 67–87.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Bonnet, C., Gobillon, L., and Laferrère, A. (2010). The effect of widowhood on housing and location choices. Journal of Housing Economics 19(2): 94–108.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Börsch-Supan, A., Brandt, M., and Schröder, M. (2013). SHARELIFE-One century of life histories in Europe. Advances in Life Course Research 18(1): 1–4.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Bras, H. (2004). Social change, the institution of service and youth: The case of service in the lives of rural-born Dutch women, 1840-1940. Continuity and Change 19(2): 241–264.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Bras, H. and Kok, J. (2004). Naturally, every child was supposed to work. Determinants of the leaving home process in the Netherlands, 1850-1940. Population, family and society 1: 403–450.

Download reference:

Bras, H., Liefbroer, A.C., and Elzinga, C.H. (2010). Standardization of pathways to adulthood? An analysis of Dutch cohorts born between 1850 and 1900. Demography 47(4): 1013–1034.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Bulder, E. (1993). The social economics of old age. Strategies to maintain income in later life in the Netherlands 1880–1940. Amsterdam: Tinbergen Institute.

Download reference:

Burton-Jeangros, C., Cullati, S., Sacker, A., and Blane, D. (eds.) (2015). A life course perspective on health trajectories and transitions. Heidelberg: Springer.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Conway, D. (1980). Step-wise migration : Toward a clarification of the mechanism. The International Migration Review 14(1): 3–14.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Cribier, F. (1980). A European assessment of aged migration. Research on Aging 2(2): 255–270.

Weblink:
Download reference:

DaVanzo, J. (1981). Repeat migration, information costs, and location-specific capital. Population and Environment 4(1): 45–73.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Eijl, C. and Lucassen, L. (2006). Holland beyond the borders: emigration and the Dutch state, 1850 –1940. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.

Download reference:

Elder, G.H., Johnson, M.R., and Crosnoe, R. (2003). The emergence and development of life course theory. In: Mortimer, J. T. and Shanahan, M. J. (eds.). Handbook of the Life Course, Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers: 3–19.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Fokkema, T., Gierveld, J., and Nijkamp, P. (1996). Big cities, big problems: Reason for the elderly to move? Urban Studies 33(2): 353–377.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Friedrich, K. and Warnes, A. (2000). Understanding contrasts in later life migration patterns: Germany, Britain and the United States. Erdkunde 54: 108–120.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Gabadinho, A., Ritschard, G., Muller, N.S., and Studer, M. (2011). Analyzing and visualizing state sequences in R with TraMineR. Journal of Statistical Sofware 40(4): 1–37.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Gabadinho, A., Ritschard, G., Studer, M., and Muller, N.S. (2011). Mining sequence data in R with the TraMineR package: A user’s guide (for Version 1.8. Geneva: Department of Econometrics and Laboratory of Demography, University of Geneva.

Download reference:

Gower, J.C. (1971). A general coefficient of similarity and some of its properties. Biometrics 27(4): 857–871.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Halpin, B. (2016). Multiple imputation for categorical time series missingness in longitudinal data. The Stata Journal 16(3): 590–612.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Harper, M. (2005). Emigrant homecomings. The return movement of emigrants, 1600–2000. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Download reference:

Hochstadt, S. (1999). Migration history and social sciences. In: Hochstadt, S. (ed.). Mobility and modernity. Migration in Germany, 1820–1989. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press: 255–282.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Hooren, F. and Becker, U. (2012). One welfare state, two care regimes: Understanding developments in child and elderly care policies in the Netherlands. Social Policy and Administration 46(1): 83–107.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Huinink, J. and Brüderl, J. (2021). Editorial on the Special Issue “The identification of causal mechanisms in demographic research”. Comparative Population Studies 46: 487–502.

Weblink:
Download reference:

International Institute for Social History (IISH) (2010). Historical sample of the Netherlands (HSN). Data Set Life Courses Release 2010.01.

Download reference:

Janssens, A. (2014). Labouring lives: Women, work and the demographic transition in the Netherlands, 1880–1960. Bern: Peter Lang.

Download reference:

Kaufmann, V., Dubois, Y., and Ravalet, E. (2018). Measuring and typifying mobility using motility. Applied Mobilities 3(2): 198–213.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Kesztenbaum, L. (2008). Places of life events as bequestable wealth: Family territory and migration in France, 19th and 20th Centuries. Dordrecht: Springer.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Kley, S.A. and Mulder, C.H. (2010). Considering, planning, and realizing migration in early adulthood. The influence of life-course events and perceived opportunities on leaving the city in Germany. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment 25(1): 73–94.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Klinthäll, M. (2013). Older immigrants leaving Sweden. Bristol: Policy Press.

Kohli, M. (2007). The institutionalization of the life course: Looking back to look ahead. Research in Human Development 4(3–4): 253–271.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Kok, J. (2004). Choices and constraints in the migration of families: The central Netherlands, 1850-1940. History of the Family 9(2): 137–158.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Kok, J. (2017). Church affiliation and life course transitions in The Netherlands , 1850–1970. Historical Social Research 42(2): 59–91.

Download reference:

Kok, J. (1997). Youth labor migration and its family setting, the Netherlands 1850–1940. History of the Family 2(4): 507–526.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Kok, J. and Mandemakers, K. (2010). A life-course approach to co-residence in the Netherlands, 1850–1940. Continuity and Change 25(2): 285–312.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Kok, J. and Mandemakers, K. (2009). Je zoudt maar last van mij hebben’ [You would only be bothered by me. Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis 6(4): 139–165.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Kok, J. and Mandemakers, K. (2012). Nuclear hardship in the nuclear heartland? Families and welfare in the Netherlands, 1850–1940. (Working paper WOG/HD/2012-1).).

Download reference:

Kok, J., Mandemakers, K., and Mönkediek, B. (2014). Flight from the land? Migration flows of the rural population of the Netherlands, 1850–1940. Espace populations sociétés : 1–18.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Kulu, H. (2008). Fertility and spatial mobility in the life course: Evidence from Austria. Environment and Planning A 40(3): 632–652.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Lalive d’Epinay, C. and Spini, D. (2008). Les années fragiles. La vie après 80 ans.

Download reference:

Laslett, P. (1988). Family, kinship and collectivity as systems of support in pre-industrial Europe: A consideration of the ‘nuclear-hardship’ hypothesis. Continuity and Change 3(2): 153–175.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Leeuwen, M.H.D. (1998). Armenzorg 1800–1912: Erfenis van de Republiek [Poor relief 1800–1912: Heritage of the Republic. In: Gerwen, J. and Leeuwen, M.H.D. (eds.). Studies over Zekerheidsarrangementen: Risico’s, Risicobestrijding En Verzekering in Nederland Vanaf de Middeleeuwen. Amsterdam: NEHA: 276–316.

Download reference:

Lévy, J. (2013). Capital spatial. New Revised and : 147–149.

Download reference:

Litwak, E. and Longino, C.F. (1987). Migration patterns among the elderly: A developmental perspective. The Gerontologist 27(3): 266–272.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Longino, C.F., Bradley, D.E., Stoller, E.P., and Haas, W.H. (2008). Predictors of non-local moves among older adults : A prospective study. Journal of Gerontology 63(1): 7–14.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Lu, Y. and Qin, L. (2014). Healthy migrant and salmon bias hypotheses: A study of health and internal migration in China. Social Science and Medicine 102: 41–48.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Lucassen, L. (1999). Book review: Mobility and modernity. Migration in Germany 1820–1989, by Hochstadt, S. International Review of Social History 44: 301–324.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Lundholm, E. (2012). Returning home? Migration to birthplace among migrants after Age 55. Population, Space and Place 18(1): 74–84.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Mandemakers, K. (2006). Building life course datasets from population registers by the historical sample of the Netherlands (HSN. History and Computing 14: 87–108.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Mandemakers, K. (2006). Documentatie bestanden output programma persoonskaarten. Versie behorende bij invoerprogramma HSN 3.51. [Documentation files output program person cards. Version associated with input program. Amsterdam: International Institute for Social History.

Download reference:

Mandemakers, K. (2010). Historical Sample of the Netherlands. Documentation output files population registers. Amsterdam: International Institute for Social History, English abridged version of the manual connected to HSN-data entry program HSN 3.47-49, 4.02-.05.

Download reference:

Mandemakers, K. (2000). The Netherlands: Historical sample of the Netherlands. In: Hall, P.K., McCaa, R., and Thorvaldsen, G. (eds.). Handbook of international historical microdata for population research. Minneapolis: Minnesota Population Center: 149–178.

Download reference:

Mandemakers, K. and Kok, J. (2010). Structuur huishouden analysebestand [New analysis file of the household structure. Amsterdam: International Institute for Social History.

Download reference:

Mandemakers, K., Muurling, S., Maas, I., van de Putte, B., Zijdeman, R.L., Lambert, P.S., van Leeuwen, M.H.D. , van Poppel, F.W.A., and Miles, A. (2018). HSN standardized, HISCO-coded and classified occupational titles, release 2013.01. Amsterdam: International Institute for Social History.

Download reference:

Marshall, V. (2000). Agency, structure, and the life course in the era of reflexive modernization. Paper presented at the Paper presented in a symposium on ‘The life course in the 21st century’, Washington DC, 2000.

Download reference:

McCollum, D., Keenan, K., and Findlay, A. (2020). The case for a life course perspective on mobility and migration research. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Meer, A. and Boonstra, O. (2011). Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten vanaf 1812 waaraan toegevoegd de Amsterdamse code [Directory of Dutch municipalities from 1812 to which the Amsterdam code has been added. The Hague: DANS.

Download reference:

Meyer, J. and Speare, A. (1985). Distinctively elderly mobility: Types and determinants. Economic Geography 61(1): 79–88.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Michielin, F. and Mulder, C.H. (2008). Family events and the residential mobility of couples. Environment and Planning A 40(11): 2770–2790.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Mulder, C.H. (1993). Migration dynamics: A life course approach. Amsterdam: Thesis Publishers.

Download reference:

Mulder, C.H. and Hooimeijer, P. (1999). Residential relocations in the life course. In: Wissen, L.J.G. and Dykstra, P.A. (eds.). Population issues. An interdisciplinary focus. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers: 159–186.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Neven, M. (2004). Retourmigratie in een plattelands samenleving tijdens de industriële revolutie [Return migration in a rural society during the industrial revolution. The Pays de Herve (Belgium) 1846–1900. Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis 1(1): 47–75.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Newbold, K.B. (2013). Place and residence attachments in Canada’s older population. In: Percival, J. (ed.). Return Migration in Later Life: International Perspectives. Bristol: Policy Press: 43–66.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Newbold, K.B. and Cicchino, S. (2007). Inter-regional return and onwards migration in Canada: Evidence based on a micro-regional analysis. Canadian Journal of Regional Science 30(2): 211–226.

Download reference:

Nowik, L. and Bringé, A. (2016). Déménager après 55 ans: Mobilité de retraite et mobilité d ’ ajustement: Le cas de quatre territoires locaux [Moving after 55 years old: retirement mobility and adjustment mobility: The case of four local territories. In: Sanderson, J. P., Bourguignon, M., and Eggerickx, T. (eds.). Cahiers de demographie locale 2013/14. Strasbourg: Néothèque: 51–85.

Download reference:

Oris, M. (2000). The age at marriage of migrants during the industrial revolution in the region of Liège. History of the Family 5(4): 391–413.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Oris, M., Dubert, I., and Viret, J.L. (2015). Vieillir : Les apports de la démographie historique et de l’histoire de la famille [Growing old: The contributions of historical demography and family history. Annales de Démographie Historique 129(1): 201–229.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Oris, M., Gabriel, R., Ritschard, G., and Kliegel, M. (2017). Long lives and old age poverty: Social stratification and life-course institutionalization in Switzerland. Research in Human Development 14(1): 68–87.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Oris, M. and Ochiai, E. (2002). Family crisis in the context of different family systems: Frameworks and evidence on ‘When Dad Died’. In: Derosas, R. and Oris, M. (eds.). When dad died. Individuals and families coping with distress in past societies. Bern: Peter Lang: 17–79.

Download reference:

Percival, J. (ed.) (2013). Return migration in later life: International perspectives. Bristol: Policy Press.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Pers, M., Kibele, E.U.B., and Mulder, C.H. (2015). Intergenerational proximity and the residential relocation of older people to care institutions and elsewhere. Ageing and Society 35(7): 1429–1456.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Piccarreta, R. and Studer, M. (2019). Holistic analysis of the life course: Methodological challenges and new perspectives. Advances in Life Course Research 41: 100251.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Ritschard, G. and Studer, M. (eds.) (2018). Sequence analysis and related approaches. Innovative methods and applications. Cham: Springer Nature.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Rodríguez, V. and Egea, C. (2006). Return and the social environment of Andalusian emigrants in Europe. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 32(8): 1377–1393.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Rosenbaum-Feldbrügge, M. (2018). Gender differences in response to family crisis: Changes in household composition and migration of widowed parents with minor children in the Netherlands, 1863–1910. History of the Family 23(4): 679–705.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Rossignon, F., Studer, M., Gauthier, J.A., and Le Goff, J.M. (2018). Sequence history analysis (SHA): Estimating the effect of past trajectories on an upcoming event. In: Ritschard, G. and Studer, M. (eds.). Sequence analysis and related approaches. Innovative methods and applications. Cham: Springer Nature: 83–100.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Sander, N. (2018). Germany: internal migration within a changing nation. London: Routledge.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Schmidt, A. (2007). Survival strategies of widows and their families in early modern Holland, c. 1580–1750. The History of the Family 12(4): 268–281.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Schumacher, R. and Moreau, A. (2018). La mobilité résidentielle des personnes âgées dans le canton de Vaud [Residential mobility for the elderly in the canton of Vaud. In: Sanderson, J.P. and Oris, M. (eds.). Familles en transformation. Quand les modes de construction familiale se réinventent [Families in transformation. When family structures are reinvented. Paris: International Association of French Speaking Demographers: 5–19.

Download reference:

Schwarz, K. (1999). The decline of mobility in the twentieth century. In: Hochstadt, S. (ed.). Mobility and modernity. Migration in Germany, 1820–1989. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press: 217–254.

Download reference:

Serow, W.J. (1988). Why the elderly move. Cross-national comparisons. Research on Ageing 9(4): 582–597.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Skocpol, T. (1977). Review : Wallerstein’s world capitalist system : A theoretical and historical critique: The modern world-system: Capitalist agriculture and the origins of the european world-economy in the sixteenth Century, by Immanuel Wallerstein. American Journal of Sociology 82(5): 1075–1090.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Smith-Greenaway, E. and Thomas, K. (2014). Exploring child mortality risks associated with diverse patterns of maternal migration in Haiti. Population Research and Policy Review 33(6): 873–895.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Stockdale, A. (2016). Contemporary and ‘messy’ rural in-migration processes: Comparing counterurban and lateral rural migration. Population, Space and Place 22(6): 599–616.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Stovel, K. and Bolan, M. (2004). Residential trajectories: Using optimal alignment to reveal the structure of residential mobility. Sociological Methods and Research 32(4): 559–598.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Studer, M. (2013). WeightedCluster Library Manual: A practical guide to creating typologies of trajectories in the social sciences with R. LIVES working papers.

Download reference:

Studer, M., Liefbroer, A.C., and Mooyaart, J.E. (2018). Understanding trends in family formation trajectories: An application of Competing Trajectories Analysis (CTA. Advances in Life Course Research 36: 1–12.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Studer, M. and Ritschard, G. (2016). What matters in differences between life trajectories: A comparative review of sequence dissimilarity measures. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society 179(2): 481–511.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Tsuya, N.O. and Nystedt, P. (2004). Old-age mortality. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Download reference:

Urbaniak, A. and Walsh, K. (2019). The interrelationship between place and critical life transitions in later life social exclusion: A scoping review. Health and Place 60: 102234.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Valk, L. (1986). Van pauperzorg tot bestaanszekerheid: een onderzoek naar de ontwikkeling van de armenzorg in Nederland tegen de achtergrond van de overgang naar de algemene Bijstandswet, 1912–1965 [From pauper care until secure livelihood: A study of the development of poor relief in the Netherlands against the background of the transition to the General Social Security Law, 1912–1965. Amsterdam: Stichting IISG Beheer.

Download reference:

Walters, W.H. (2002). Place characteristics and later-life migration. Research on Aging 24(2): 243–277.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Walters, W.H. and Owen, D. (2000). Types and patterns of later‐life migration. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography 82(3): 129–147.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Warnes, A.M. and Law, C.M. (1984). The elderly population of Great Britain : Locational trends and policy implications. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 9(1): 37–59.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Wingens, M., Windzio, M., de Valk, H.A.G., and Aybek, C. (eds.) (2011). A life-course perspective on migration and integration. Dordrecht: Springer.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Wintle, M. (2000). An economic and social history of the Netherlands 1800–1920. Demographic, economic and social transition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Wiseman, R. and Roseman, C. (1979). A typology of elderly migration based on the decision making process. Economic Geography 55(4): 324–337.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Zelinsky, W. (1971). The hypothesis of the mobility transition. Geographical Review 61(2): 219–249.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Zufferey, J., Steiner, I., and Ruedin, D. (2020). The many forms of multiple migrations: Evidence from a sequence analysis in Switzerland, 1998 to 2008. International Migration Review 55(1): 1–26.

Weblink:
Download reference:

Back to the article