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Defining lifestyle migration [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper seeks to provide a conceptual framework for studying migration to the Algarve by Northern Europeans. ‘Lifestyle migration’ is suggested as a generic term for this trend, which is part of a recent but flourishing global social phenomenon. I also point to the glaring gap in the literature as far as empirical studies based in the Algarve are ...
Torkington, Kate
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Graduate migration in Italy - Lifestyle or necessity? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This paper studies the locational choice of Italian mobile graduates, tackling simultaneously three aspects. First it analyses the structural drivers of migration (i.e. the key regional characteristics that attract high-skilled migrants) and the social structures that underpin it (i.e the role of migration networks).
Elisabetta Marinelli
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A Cultural Sociological Reading of Lifestyle Migration

open access: yesDve Domovini, 2015
One of the fundamental issues in lifestyle migration is that the ideals behind it, a quest for a better way of life, are not homogenous across groups and contexts.
Nick Osbaldiston
doaj   +2 more sources

[REVIEW] Immigrant Japan: Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-Nationalist Society

open access: yesNew Voices in Japanese Studies, 2021
A review of the monograph "Immigrant Japan: Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-Nationalist Society" by Gracia Liu-Farrer, Cornell University Press (New York), 2020.
Aoife Wilkinson
doaj   +1 more source

Heading for a ‘Better Life’? Why Swedes Move to Portugal

open access: yesNordic Journal of Migration Research, 2021
This article discusses the drivers behind why Swedes move to Portugal and who these migrants are. The conceptual framework is based on lifestyle migration and considers migration as a process.
Daniel Rauhut
doaj   +1 more source

We Have Plenty of Water, Don’t We? Social Norms, Practices, and Contentions in a Drought-Ridden Country

open access: yesHydrology, 2021
Climate and land use change pose global challenges to water policy and management. This article furthers calls for integrated research conceptualizing water management as a holistic, interdependent system that may benefit from sociological research.
Angela T. Ragusa
doaj   +1 more source

From lifestyle migration to lifestyleinmigration: Categories, concepts and ways of thinking [PDF]

open access: yesMigration Studies, 2015
This article argues that analytical concepts used in migration (and other) research are most effectively employed empirically when their methodological underpinnings, and the nature of their development, are fully understood. Inductively-designed conceptual frameworks developed through long-term qualitative research are useful ways of (re)thinking ...
Benson, Michaela, O’Reilly, Karen
openaire   +2 more sources

Mapping the scholarly landscape of lifestyle migration in tourism: bibliometric patterns of trend, themes and future directions [PDF]

open access: yesEastern Journal of European Studies
This study analyses the evolution and intellectual structure of lifestyle migration research in tourism through bibliometric analysis. Despite its growing relevance, no systematic review has mapped the intersection of these fields.
Maja Niksić Radić, Daniel Dragičević
doaj   +1 more source

(Lifestyle) immigrant entrepreneurs in Spanish small villages: Rethinking international immigration in rural Alt Empordà, Catalonia

open access: yesBelgeo, 2020
The article studies connections between local economics, entrepreneurship and lifestyle immigration in municipalities with fewer than 500 inhabitants in Alt Empordà, Spain.
Cristóbal Mendoza   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The microeconomic determinants of emigration and return migration of the best and brightest: evidence from the Pacific [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
A unique survey which tracks worldwide the best and brightest academic performers from three Pacific countries is used to assess the extent of emigration and return migration among the very highly skilled, and to analyze, at the microeconomic level, the ...
Gibson, J., McKenzie, D.
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