Seeking Access to Long-Term Care: Legal Consciousness of Dutch Retirement Migrants on the Costa Blanca

<p>As EU citizens, Dutch retirement migrants can move and reside freely within the European Union. This enables their fluid migratory pattern and the formation of transnational ties between the Netherlands and Spain. However, national laws and nationally organised welfare systems within the EU...

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Main Author: Anoeshka Gehring
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law 2013-12-01
Series:Oñati Socio-Legal Series
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Online Access:http://ssrn.com/abstract=2356939
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Summary:<p>As EU citizens, Dutch retirement migrants can move and reside freely within the European Union. This enables their fluid migratory pattern and the formation of transnational ties between the Netherlands and Spain. However, national laws and nationally organised welfare systems within the EU may bind some retirement migrants to one of the two countries. Retirement migrants move at a stage in their lifecycle associated with a possible deterioration of health, therefore they are forced to think about accessing care provisions in the Netherlands and/or Spain. By focusing on the ways Dutch retirement migrants talk about and seek access to long-term care in both countries, this contribution explores the legal consciousness of Dutch retirement migrants in a transnational setting. Since legal consciousness research mainly focuses on a nation-state setting, this contribution argues that theories on legal consciousness should develop further in order to open its analysis frame to include transnational migrants who have to deal with more than one legal system.</p> <hr /><p>Como ciudadanos de la UE, los emigrantes jubilados holandeses pueden circular y residir libremente en la Uni&oacute;n Europea. Esto permite un patr&oacute;n migratorio fluido y la formaci&oacute;n de lazos transnacionales entre los Pa&iacute;ses Bajos y Espa&ntilde;a. Sin embargo, las leyes nacionales y los sistemas de bienestar social organizados a nivel nacional dentro de la UE pueden obligar a algunos emigrantes jubilados hacia uno de los dos pa&iacute;ses. Los emigrantes jubilados se mueven en una etapa de su ciclo de vida asociada a un posible deterioro de la salud, por lo tanto, se ven obligados a pensar y organizar el acceso a los cuidados sanitarios en los Pa&iacute;ses Bajos y/o Espa&ntilde;a. Al centrarse en los modos en los que los emigrantes jubilados holandeses hablan y buscan acceso a los cuidados a largo plazo en ambos pa&iacute;ses, esta contribuci&oacute;n explora la conciencia jur&iacute;dica de los emigrantes jubilados holandeses en un entorno transnacional. Dado que la investigaci&oacute;n jur&iacute;dica consciente se centra principalmente en un ajuste de estado-naci&oacute;n, esta contribuci&oacute;n sostiene que las teor&iacute;as sobre la conciencia jur&iacute;dica deber&iacute;an llegar m&aacute;s all&aacute; con el fin de abrir la ventana de an&aacute;lisis para incluir a los emigrantes transnacionales que tienen que hacer frente a m&aacute;s de un sistema legal.
ISSN:2079-5971