ABSTRACT
This editorial article aims to give an introduction to the topics with which this issue is
concerned by giving both an abridged presentation of ‘the age of migration’ and by
drawing attention to some of the implications that this phenomenon has for the field
of social work. As an editorial, this piece also aims to introduce the articles that
comprise this special issue in an attempt to give an overview of the wide scope of
topics that they touch upon. Of interest is perhaps that when we first agreed to act as
guest editors to this special issue we were primarily thinking that most of the articles
we were going to publish were going to be about older people per se. The wide range
of issues that the articles in this special issue cover suggest, however, that ‘the age of
migration’ is challenging gerontological social work in more ways than we might
initially imagine.
