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• Title:
  Places that Matter: Place Attachment and Wellbeing of Older Antillean Migrants in the Netherlands
• Creator:
  Lager, Debbie;
  van Hoven, Bettina;
  Meijering, Louise
• Contributor:
  Lager, Debbie - Department of Cultural Geography, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, PO Box 800, 9700AV Groningen, the Netherlands;
  van Hoven, Bettina - Department of Cultural Geography, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, PO Box 800, 9700AV Groningen, the Netherlands;
  Meijering, Louise - Department of Cultural Geography, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, PO Box 800, 9700AV Groningen, the Netherlands
• Description:
  It has been argued that attachment to place increases wellbeing in old age (Wiles et al., 2009). Feeling ‘in place’ can increase an older person's wellbeing. For older migrants it can be a challenge to live in-between cultures. The objective of the article is to explore how older Antillean migrants derive a sense of wellbeing from attachment to their everyday places. We do so by drawing on in-depth interviews and a photography project with Antilleans who live in a senior cohousing community in a city in the Northern Netherlands. Based on the study, we conclude that the cohousing community acted as a central setting of experience from which the participants explored their wider surroundings and developed new attachments in the neighbourhood.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  This content is open access.
• Date:
  2015.07.10;
  2012.07.26
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Lodz Univeristy Press
• Relation:
  European Spatial Research and Policy;19
• Subject:
  ageing;
  place attachment;
  wellbeing;
  Antillean migrants;
  the Netherlands;
  senior cohousing community
• Identifier:
  1231-1952;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/10809 ;
  1896-1525;
  10.2478/v10105-012-0007-6
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  other