Vieillir dans les ménages d'une ville industrielle: l'impact de l'âge de migration (Verriers, début du XIXe siècle)

• Autores: George Alter
• Localización: Annales de démographie historique, ISSN 0066-2062, Nº 2, 1999 (Ejemplar dedicado a: L'usine, les hommes, la ville. L'intégration dans les villes industrielles), págs. 9-29
• Idioma: francés
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  • Although most migration takes place at young âges, mobility in old age is a significant life course transition. Population registers from Verviers, Belgium allow us to examine the timing and destination of migrants to an early center of the Industrial Révolution. In général, migrants at older âges were poorer than natives or earlier arrivais. Those who came in early old âge (55-75) tended to arrive as heads of families, but after âge 75 females and maies were increasingly different. The few very old men who migrated to the city often ended up living with non-kin. In contrast, the oldest women were mostly widows rejoining married children who had arrived before them.