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Gringolandia: lifestyle migration under late capitalism

Journal of Cultural Geography, 2020
This book largely focuses on the movement of North Americans to Cuenca, Ecuador. A primary motivation for this movement or ‘new’ or ‘reverse’ migration flow from the global North to the global Sout...
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Lifestyle migration and work choices

Hospitality & Society, 2015
Abstract Building on the work of lifestyle migrant researchers where hospitality and tourism are key drivers for migrants’ location decisions, this article considers the complexities of work choices made by lifestyle migrants. Discussion leads to the proposition of linking lifestyle migration, work–life balance and work choices to ...
Claire Holland, Emma Martin
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Migration Tradeoffs: Men's Experiences with Seasonal Lifestyles

International Migration Review, 1987
This study examines changes in work, health and family patterns among men who migrate seasonally between Mexico and the United States. A representative sample of 219 Mexican seasonal migrants to California was obtained in Jalisco, Mexico. The data were generated through a household survey and in-depth follow-up interviews.
S, Guendelman, A, Perez-itriago
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Lifestyle of Freedom? Individualism and Lifestyle Migration

2014
The current era is often called the age of individualism: individuality is expected, even demanded, of us. Within this discourse, lifestyle migrants seem to be ideal subjects. Lifestyle migration is often described as an individual’s search for a better life abroad and lifestyle migrants often present themselves as active agents who have improved their
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Retirement migration and transnational lifestyles

Ageing and Society, 2001
Research on international retirement migration has so far focused on quantitative measures of migration, migrants' wellbeing, reasons for migration and consequences of migration in the receiving areas, while paying scant attention to the transnational experiences of the migrants. Research on transnational forms of living, on the other hand, has largely
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A Global Sociology on Lifestyle Migrations

2021
This chapter explores lifestyle migration from the vantage point of a global sociology of migration. It picks up strands of the transnational approach to migration studies and asks what other concepts and concerns emerge when lifestyle migration is added to our picture of global migrations.
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Governance as Practice: Regulating Lifestyle Migration

2018
This chapter makes clear how the foreign investment in property anticipated by residential tourism is further supported by specialist visa regimes, which incentivise such investments through tax breaks and other favourable terms of residence. In this way, migrants-cum-investors are treated as exceptional cases.
Michaela Benson, Karen O’Reilly
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La migration brésilienne lifestyle à Montréal

2017
Les études sur la migration des personnes provenant des pays en voie de développement utilisent souvent des approches macro-économiques où l’on décrit le fondement de la décision des émigrants de quitter leur pays natal à partir de critères économiques.
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Roma TB patients –„double trouble”: migration and lifestyle

Tuberculosis, 2019
In a Roma community from Iasi County, Romania, TB incidence registered alarming peaks starting from 2009; the moment coincides with the increased migration „free of visa” of Romanian citizens. Aim: 25 years follow up of TB epidemiological process in a Roma community with an increasing population (1992- 131 persons, 2016-373), located at a periphery of
Adriana Sorete Arbore, Violeta Cojocariu
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Rural-Urban Migration, Lifestyles, and Deforestation

2016
The means of addressing greenhouse gas emissions related to building and transport energy use, urban form, and waste are technically straightforward, even if socially and politically challenging. Tackling these areas successfully would go a long way toward mitigating the emissions load that cities impose on the global ecosystem.
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