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.
Author(s): Michaela Benson, Karen O'Reilly
Edition: Har/Ele
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 178
Contents......Page 6
Notes on Contributors......Page 8
Series Editor’s Preface......Page 10
1 Lifestyle Migration: Escaping to the Good Life?......Page 12
2 When a Trip to Adulthood becomes a Lifestyle: Western Lifestyle Migrantsin Varanasi, India......Page 26
3 Pursuing the Good Life: American Narratives of Travel and a Search for Refuge......Page 42
4 Romance Tourists, Foreign Wivesor Retirement Migrants? Cross-cultural Marriage in Florence, Italy......Page 62
5 Your Home in Spain: Residential Strategies in International Retirement Migration......Page 80
6 Social Capital in the Sun: Bonding and Bridging Social Capital among British Retirees......Page 98
7 The Children of the Hunters: Self-realization Projects and Class Reproduction......Page 114
8 A Desire for Difference: British Lifestyle Migration to Southwest France......Page 132
9 Taking the Risk: The British in Didim, Turkey......Page 148
10 Lifestyle Afterthoughts......Page 164
Index......Page 176
