Overview
- Reveals how neoliberalism and postcolonialism articulate in the production of lifestyle migration as a social process
- Describes lifestyle migration as a process through the lens of practice theory
- Highlights the constraints and opportunities that shape the lives of lifestyle migrants and the processes by which these are negotiated
- Demonstrates how lifestyle migration has been shaped by historical processes such as colonialism and empire, but also by wider global trends such as neoliberalism
Part of the book series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship (MDC)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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 economic development, and the governance and regulation of lifestyle migration. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork undertaken by the authors among lifestyle migrants in Malaysia and Panama, they reveal the structural and material conditions that support migration and how these are embodied by migrant subjects, while also highlighting their agency within this process. This rigorous work marks an important contribution to emerging debates surrounding privileged migration and mobility. It will appeal to sociologists, social theorists, human and cultural geographers, economists, social psychologists, demographers, social anthropologists,tourism and migration studies specialists.
Reviews
“This book encapsulates the quality of both O’Reilly and Benson’s skills as both theorists and ethnographers in migration scholarship. Their work collectively in lifestyle migration culminates in this piece and delivers an astounding depth of material for anyone who works in this space but also broadly for those who work on globalisation, migration and tourism research.” (Nick Osbaldiston, James Cook University, Australia)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Karen O’Reilly is Professor Emerita at Loughborough University, UK. Through her research on British migrants living in Spain in the 1990s, she set the agenda for the sociological study of British migration. She is the author of The British on the Costa del Sol (2000), Ethnographic Methods (2011), Key Concepts in Ethnography (2008) and International Migration and Social Theory (2012) which wonthe CHOICE outstanding academic title award.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Lifestyle Migration and Colonial Traces in Malaysia and Panama
Authors: Michaela Benson, Karen O'Reilly
Series Title: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51158-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-51157-7Published: 24 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-70240-4Published: 14 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-51158-4Published: 08 May 2018
Series ISSN: 2662-2602
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2610
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 315
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Migration, Ethnography, Imperialism and Colonialism, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Sociology of Culture