There is growing interest in the extent of post‐retirement return among migrants. However, most research focuses on those approaching or soon after retirement, e.g. in their 60s. Less is known about how return, and indeed non‐return, decision‐making evolves in later years, with calls for more research on migrants in the old‐old age groups. Moreover, there are indications that women migrants may be less inclined to return than their male counterparts. Our article seeks to advance understanding in this area of research by drawing upon rich qualitative data from Irish women migrants, who worked as nurses in Britain and are now entering older age, e.g. 70s–80s. Many simply asserted that they could not leave their adult children and grandchildren. However, using the embedding framework, through a life course lens, we argue that non‐return may reflect complex processes of disembedding and non‐belonging in the origin country – which are less easy to articulate.

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“你永远不会从你停下的地方继续下去”：年长的爱尔兰女性移民关于不返回、退休后的叙述


人们对移民退休后回归的程度越来越感兴趣。然而，大多数研究都集中在即将退休或退休后不久的人，例如 60 多岁的人。人们对返乡乃至不返乡决策在晚年如何演变知之甚少，因此呼吁对老年群体中的移民进行更多研究。此外，有迹象表明，女性移民可能比男性移民更不愿意回国。我们的文章旨在通过利用爱尔兰女性移民的丰富定性数据来增进对这一研究领域的理解，这些女性移民在英国担任护士，现在正进入老年，例如 70 岁至 80 岁。许多人只是断言他们不能离开成年的孩子和孙子。然而，通过生命历程的视角，使用嵌入框架，我们认为不回归可能反映了在原籍国脱离嵌入和非归属的复杂过程——这些过程不太容易表达。