Louise Ackers is Jean Monnet Professor in European Law and Director of the Centre for the Study of Law in Europe at the University of Leeds. She has directed a number of projects concerned with the legal aspects of mobility within the EU, citizenship and comparative social policy. Peter Dwyer is a Lecturer in Social Policy at the Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds. His research focuses on social citizenship and welfare reform.

• Contents: Introduction; Citizenship, well-being and agency in the European Union; Shades of citizenship: the legal status of retirement migrants; Movements to some purpose?; Health/care, well-being and citizenship; Money matters; Moving and caring; Conclusions: retirement migration: the challenge to social citizenship?

"... very rewarding ... should be read for the strong sense of dynamic it generates in recounting the aspirations, efforts and strategies of many older Europeans who can claim only a very liminal form of citizenship." Critical Social Policy

Louise Ackers is Jean Monnet Professor in European Law and Director of the Centre for the Study of Law in Europe at the University of Leeds. She has directed a number of projects concerned with the legal aspects of mobility within the EU, citizenship and comparative social policy. Peter Dwyer is a Lecturer in Social Policy at the Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds. His research focuses on social citizenship and welfare reform.

• Contents: Introduction; Citizenship, well-being and agency in the European Union; Shades of citizenship: the legal status of retirement migrants; Movements to some purpose?; Health/care, well-being and citizenship; Money matters; Moving and caring; Conclusions: retirement migration: the challenge to social citizenship?

"... very rewarding ... should be read for the strong sense of dynamic it generates in recounting the aspirations, efforts and strategies of many older Europeans who can claim only a very liminal form of citizenship." Critical Social Policy

Louise Ackers is Jean Monnet Professor in European Law and Director of the Centre for the Study of Law in Europe at the University of Leeds. She has directed a number of projects concerned with the legal aspects of mobility within the EU, citizenship and comparative social policy. Peter Dwyer is a Lecturer in Social Policy at the Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds. His research focuses on social citizenship and welfare reform.

• Contents: Introduction; Citizenship, well-being and agency in the European Union; Shades of citizenship: the legal status of retirement migrants; Movements to some purpose?; Health/care, well-being and citizenship; Money matters; Moving and caring; Conclusions: retirement migration: the challenge to social citizenship?

"... very rewarding ... should be read for the strong sense of dynamic it generates in recounting the aspirations, efforts and strategies of many older Europeans who can claim only a very liminal form of citizenship." Critical Social Policy