In Conversation – Sarah Kunz on the Migrant Category “Expat”

Modernity, Management, and Whiteness Sarah Kunz is a Leverhulme Early Career Scholar at University of Bristol. Her research looks at privileged migration, the category expatriate, and the investment migration industry, centring issues of unequal citizenship, coloniality and race in relation to transnational mobility. Her work has been published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies,Geography …

In Conversation – Cornelia Schweppe on Retirement Migration to the Global South

Emerging Global Care Chains and North-South Migration Cornelia Schweppe is Professor of Social Pedagogy at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. She has researched on a wide range of topics including transnational social support, transnational aging, retirement migration and old age care.  Just before the COVID-19 pandemic, she brought together scholars looking at northern retirement migration to the …

LM Hub meeting 28-29 November 2019 (in Umeå, Sweden)

Theme: Practicing lifestyle migration in changing political, economic and environmental times Since Benson, O’Reilly and colleagues published their seminal work on lifestyle migration in 2009, scholars have studied practices of the good life in various locations (Torkington et al. 2015), and developed insights into lifestyle migration – and migration more broadly – from different angles …

Call for participants in Organized Session Proposal

International Symposium on Society and Resource Management (ISSRM) June 19-22, 2017 in Umeå, Sweden Symposium Theme: Contested Spaces: Bridging Protection and Development in a Globalizing World __________________________________________________________________________ Session proposal: Lifestyle migration, amenity migration and natural resources Lifestyle migrants have been defined as “relatively affluent individuals, moving part-time or full-time, permanently or temporarily, to places which …

Updates to the Lifestyle Migration Hub!

By Michaela Benson If you want to find out more about Lifestyle Migration, the lifestyle migration hub is a great place to explore. It has a bibliography, a list of scholars working in this area, and this great new description of lifestyle migration.

Why are white people expats when the rest of us are immigrants? The view from lifestyle migration research

By Michaela Benson What is an expat? And who is an expat? According to Wikipedia, “an expatriate (often shortened to expat) is a person temporarily or permanently residing in a country other than that of the person’s upbringing. The word comes from the Latin terms ex (‘out of’) and patria (‘country, fatherland’)”. Defined that way, …

New book: White Migrations by Catrin Lundström

New Book: White migrations: Gender, Whiteness and Privilege in Transnational Migration (Palgrave Macmillan) Catrin Lundström The migrant is often thought of as a non-westerner in search for a better future in Europe or the United States. From a multi-sited ethnography with Swedish migrant women in the US, Singapore and Spain, this book explores the intersections of …

New article on the children of lifestyle migrants in Goa

A much-needed intervention to the literature that focuses on the children of lifestyle migrants. It is also fascinating in terms of thinking about doing ethnography with children. The full reference is: Korpela, Mari. 2014. "Growing up cosmopolitan? Children of Western Lifestyle Migrants in Goa, India." COLLeGIUM. Studies across disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Vol. …

Media ethnography of lifestyle migration in Portugal

Media ethnography of lifestyle migration in Portugal By Inês David and Marta Vilar RosalesAt the 'Good Life Practices' conference, I saw Inês present her work on the radio-ography of lifestyle migration, where she used her research with a local English-speaking radio station as a site to interrogate British lifestyle migration in the Algarve. I was struck at …

Thinking about the role of lifestyle in other migration trends

By Marta Bolognani (University of Bristol) The Emergence of Lifestyle Reasoning in return Considerations among British Pakistanis Abstract This article discusses the growing popularity of lifestyle reasoning in return considerations among Pakistani migrants and their children in Britain. Although lifestyle arguments are by no means new to scholarship on return migration, I argue that British …