This book brings together two major trends influencing economic and social life: population ageing on the one side, and migration on the other. Both have assumed increasing importance over the course of the 20th and into the 21st century.  The book offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on the challenges posed by the globalisation of the life course to welfare states’ old age and family policies.  Through a variety of case studies, it covers a wide range of migration scenarios: those who migrate in later life; migrants from earlier years who age in place; and old people who hire migrant caregivers. It shows how both local and global economic inequalities intersect to frame interactions between ageing, migration, and family support. Across a wide variety of situations, it highlights that migration can both create risks for older people, but also serve as an answer to ageing-related social, economic, and health risks. The book explores tensions between national andglobal contexts in experiences of migration across the life course. As such this book offers a fascinating read to scholars, students, practitioners, and policy makers in the fields of aging, migration, life course, and population health. 

Introduction.- Part 1: Support and Care of Immigrants Ageing in Place.- 1. Migration, transnational ties and intergenerational support: constructions of home and family life.- 2.Invisible old age: ethnography of a soup kitchen in Switzerland.- 3.Between care and contract: ageing immigrants, self-appointed helpers and ambiguous belonging in the Danish welfare state.- 4.Contexts of migration, integration and welfare configurations: The case of Romanian older migrants in Switzerland.- 5.Care of elderly parents in transnational families.- Part 2:  Migration as a Response to Support and Care Challenges of Ageing.- 6.    Dependence and Retirement Migration: The Importance of Inequalities.- 7.Linked lives, dividing borders: From transnational solidarity to family reunification of an older parent.- 8.Anticipating retirement in the context of migration: The case of Peruvians in Switzerland.- 9.Elders moving between Turkey and Germany.- 10. Migration and the welfare state’s life-course model in the Global North: A Swiss illustration.- 11.Migrantship in a public debate on elder care: making sense of media representations with the ethics of care lens.- Conclusion.