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A Cultural Sociological Reading of Lifestyle Migration [PDF]

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
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Insularisation and Lifestyle Migration on the Island of Hvar

open access: yesSvetovi
The paper analyses lifestyle migration on the island of Hvar through the lens of an ethnographic approach. The diversity of migratory experiences among the interviewees, who were interviewed for the purposes of this research, is examined through the ...
Ana Perinić Lewis, Tomislav Oroz
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Lifestyle Migration and the Quest for a Life-long Vacation

open access: yesTéoros, 2017
With international migration on the rise, researchers are interested in understanding the link between migration and tourism more than ever before. In this paper, we introduce some of the main concepts used in studies on migration and tourism, which lead
Zainub Ibrahim, Rémy Tremblay
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The Context and Trajectory of Lifestyle Migration

open access: yesEuropean Societies, 2010
ABSTRACT This article focuses on British migration to the Lot, a rural, inland department in the southwest of France. It first emphasizes the diversity among these lifestyle migrants by proposing a typology based on the position migrants occupy in the life course at the time of migration, identifying three different types of Britons ...
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Lifestyle Migration and Colonial Traces in Malaysia and Panama

open access: yes, 2018
Leading scholars in the sociology of migration, Michaela Benson and Karen O’Reilly, re-theorise lifestyle migration through a sustained focus on postcolonialism at its intersections with neoliberalism. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the interplay of colonial traces and neoliberal presents, the relationship between residential tourism and ...
Karen O'Reilly, Michaela Benson
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Lifestyle Migration: From the State of the Art to the Future of the Field [PDF]

open access: yesDve Domovini, 2015
This introductory article provides an overview of the predominant themes that have been explored within the field of lifestyle migration research. In this way, it seeks to locate the contributions to this special section within a wider field, showcasing ...
Michaela Benson
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[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
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From lifestyle migration to lifestyle in migration: 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
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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
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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
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