ABSTRACT
For migrants in their advanced years, issues about the future and the end-of-life become more significant especially as migration (and return) – which may be either permanent or temporary – may present a disruption(s) in one’s life and reveal changing perceptions with regard to their identities and sense of belongingness. Choices regarding death and dying are influenced not only by ethnicity and gender but also by religion, family, and their migration experiences. Death is part and parcel of the lived experience of migration and reveals several issues that talk about not only of the individual’s experience in the life-course but also how socio-political factors, culture and tradition, gender, class, and ethnicity intersect and are intertwined in end-of-life decision-making in the context of migration.
