Research Catalog

Title

Understanding lifestyle migration : theoretical approaches to migration and the quest for a better way of life / edited by Michaela Benson and Nick Osbaldiston.

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Additional Authors

• Benson, Michaela
• Osbaldiston, Nicholas

Description

xii, 237 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Understanding Lifestyle Migration contributes to the wider turn towards understanding migration through the lens of social theory. It is the first volume to question how lifestyle migration and related phenomena can be understood contributing to this rapidly expanding field of research, and moving beyond definitional considerations to engage deeper understandings of such migrations. It thus aims to set a new and challenging research agenda that brings together researchers from a range of disciplines and geographical locations working on related forms of migration. The chapters engage theoretically with themes and debates relevant to contemporary social science such as place and space, social stratification and power relations, production and consumption, individualism, dwelling, imagination and representations, and community attachments and belonging.

Series Statement

Migration, diasporas and citizenship

Uniform Title

Migration, diasporas and citizenship.

Subjects

• Developed countries > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
• Lifestyles > Developed countries
• Immigrants > Developed countries

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

New horizons in lifestyle migration research : theorising movement, settlement and the search for a better way of life / Michaela Benson and Nick Osbaldiston -- Constraints and opportunities. Lifestyle of freedom? : individualism and lifestyle migration / Mari Korpela ; Negotiating privilege in and through lifestyle migration / Michaela Benson -- Revisiting assumptions. Theorising the 'fifth migration' in the United States : understanding lifestyle migration from an integrated approach / Brian A. Hoey ; Jumping up from the armchair : beyond the idyll in counterurbanisation / Keith Halfacree -- Spaces of imagination. Migrating imaginaries of a better life ... until paradise finds you / Noel B. Salazar ; Britons in Berlin : imagined cityscapes, affective encounters and the cultivation of the self / David Griffiths and Stella Maile -- Stillness and sedentariness. Beyond ahistoricity and mobilities in lifestyle migration research / Nick Osbaldiston ; No man can be an idland : lifestyle migration, stillness, and the new quietism / Phillip Vannini and Johathan Taggart -- Looking onwards and outwards. The role of the social imaginary in lifestyle migration : employing the ontology of practice theory / Karen O'Reilly.

Call Number

JFD 16-2674

ISBN

• 9781137328663
• 1137328665

LCCN

2012287403

OCLC

870285718

Title

Understanding lifestyle migration : theoretical approaches to migration and the quest for a better way of life / edited by Michaela Benson and Nick Osbaldiston.

Publisher

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Migration, diasporas and citizenship

Migration, diasporas and citizenship.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

Table of contents only

Added Author

Benson, Michaela, editor.

Osbaldiston, Nicholas, editor.

Research Call Number

JFD 16-2674