Places that Matter: Place Attachment and Wellbeing of Older Antillean Migrants in the Netherlands

Lager, Debbie; van Hoven, Bettina; Meijering, Louise

dc.contributor.author	Lager, Debbie	en
dc.contributor.author	van Hoven, Bettina	en
dc.contributor.author	Meijering, Louise	en
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-10T09:41:21Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-10T09:41:21Z
dc.date.issued	2012-07-26	en
dc.identifier.issn	1231-1952	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11089/10809
dc.description.abstract	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.	en
dc.publisher	Lodz Univeristy Press	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	European Spatial Research and Policy;19	en
dc.rights	This content is open access.	en
dc.subject	ageing	en
dc.subject	place attachment	en
dc.subject	wellbeing	en
dc.subject	Antillean migrants	en
dc.subject	the Netherlands	en
dc.subject	senior cohousing community	en
dc.title	Places that Matter: Place Attachment and Wellbeing of Older Antillean Migrants in the Netherlands	en
dc.page.number	81-94	en
dc.contributor.authorAffiliation	Lager, Debbie - Department of Cultural Geography, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, PO Box 800, 9700AV Groningen, the Netherlands	en
dc.contributor.authorAffiliation	van Hoven, Bettina - Department of Cultural Geography, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, PO Box 800, 9700AV Groningen, the Netherlands	en
dc.contributor.authorAffiliation	Meijering, Louise - Department of Cultural Geography, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, PO Box 800, 9700AV Groningen, the Netherlands	en
dc.identifier.eissn	1896-1525
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