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

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

In Conversation: Marco Eimermann on ‘Dipping Into the North’

Remote rural communities and the shifting global economy of mobility and extraction The following is an interview with Marco Eimermann, Assistant Professor of Geography at Umeå University in Northern Sweden. He has been working on Dutch lifestyle migration to Sweden for over a decade, work that has resulted in the collaborative collection with Dean Carson … Continue reading In Conversation: Marco Eimermann on ‘Dipping Into the North’