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Retirement Migration from the U.S. to Latin American Colonial CitiesRecommendations and Conclusions

Retirement Migration from the U.S. to Latin American Colonial Cities: Recommendations and... [Twenty-five years ago, anthropologist Leonard Plotnicov proposed that medium-sized cities in Mexico, because of their pleasant climate, charming historic buildings, relative peacefulness, recreational opportunities, and low cost of living, could improve their economies by becoming retirement destinations for older persons from the United States and Canada (Plotnicov 1994). Since then, retirement has become a multi-trillion-dollar industry (McGrath 2018), and retiree-related spending has become an increasingly large component of the economies of many countries, including the United States (Levanon et al. 2018). As we noted in Chap. 1, the actual size of international migration is difficult to judge, but at minimum is in the millions. Still, as of now, Plotnicov’s vision is but a partial reality, as immigrant retirees are a minor economic force in Latin America and only in a modest number of its communities.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Retirement Migration from the U.S. to Latin American Colonial CitiesRecommendations and Conclusions

Part of the International Perspectives on Aging Book Series (volume 27)
Editors: Sloane, Philip D.; Zimmerman, Sheryl; Silbersack, Johanna
Sloane, Philip D.; Zimmerman, Sheryl; Silbersack, Johanna
Retirement Migration from the U.S. to Latin American Colonial Cities — Jan 15, 2020
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
ISBN
978-3-030-33542-7
Pages
143 –153
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-33543-4_8
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Abstract

[Twenty-five years ago, anthropologist Leonard Plotnicov proposed that medium-sized cities in Mexico, because of their pleasant climate, charming historic buildings, relative peacefulness, recreational opportunities, and low cost of living, could improve their economies by becoming retirement destinations for older persons from the United States and Canada (Plotnicov 1994). Since then, retirement has become a multi-trillion-dollar industry (McGrath 2018), and retiree-related spending has become an increasingly large component of the economies of many countries, including the United States (Levanon et al. 2018). As we noted in Chap. 1, the actual size of international migration is difficult to judge, but at minimum is in the millions. Still, as of now, Plotnicov’s vision is but a partial reality, as immigrant retirees are a minor economic force in Latin America and only in a modest number of its communities.]

Published: Jan 15, 2020

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