Lifestyle migration : expectations, aspirations and experiences

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Lifestyle migration : expectations, aspirations and experiences

edited by Michaela Benson, Karen O'Reilly

(Studies in migration and diaspora)

Ashgate, c2009

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Relatively affluent individuals from various corners of the globe are increasingly choosing to migrate, spurred on by the promise of a better and more fulfilling way of life within their destination. Despite its increasing scale, migration academics have yet to consolidate and establish lifestyle migration as a subfield of theoretical enquiry, until now. This volume offers a dynamic and holistic analysis of contemporary lifestyle migrations, exploring the expectations and aspirations which inform and drive migration alongside the realities of life within the destination. It also recognizes the structural conditions (and constraints) which frame lifestyle migration, laying the groundwork for further intellectual enquiry. Through rich empirical case studies this volume addresses this important and increasingly common form of migration in a manner that will interest scholars of mobility, migration, lifestyle and culture across the social sciences.

Table of Contents

  • Chapter 1 Lifestyle Migration, Karen O'Reilly, Michaela Benson
  • Chapter 2 When a Trip to Adulthood becomes a Lifestyle, Mari Korpela
  • Chapter 3 Pursuing the Good Life, Brian A. Hoey
  • Chapter 4 Romance Tourists, Foreign Wives or Retirement Migrants? Cross-cultural Marriage in Florence, Italy, Catherine Trundle
  • Chapter 5 Your Home in Spain, Per Gustafson
  • Chapter 6 Social Capital in the Sun, Maria Angeles Casado-Diaz
  • Chapter 7 The Children of the Hunters, Karen O'Reilly
  • Chapter 8 A Desire for Difference, Michaela Benson
  • Chapter 9 Taking the Risk, Ozlem Nudrali, Karen O'Reilly
  • Chapter 10 Lifestyle Afterthoughts, Jacqueline Waldren

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