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.

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

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 … Continue reading New book: White Migrations by Catrin Lundström

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. … Continue reading New article on the children of lifestyle migrants in Goa

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 … Continue reading Thinking about the role of lifestyle in other migration trends

I am very pleased to announce that my book, The British in Rural France, has now been released in paperback! My publishers Manchester University Press are currently offering it (and other books in the New Ethnographies series) at a discounted price of £10. To take advantage of this, download the order form here.

By Michaela Benson Last week, Karen and I attended that British Sociological Association's Bourdieu study group event, 'Bourdieu in migration, 'race' and ethnicity studies'. Karen gave one of the keynotes, drawing on her co-authored (with Caroline Oliver) article, A Bourdieusian analysis of class and migration and on her development of practice stories for understanding migration, an approach that … Continue reading Listen to Karen O’Reilly talking about Bourdieu, lifestyle migration and practice stories

The journal Two Homelands recently published a special section on marginal mobilities, which included the following papers on lifestyle migration: Špela KALČIĆ Going Nomad: New Mobile Lifestyles among Europeans Global modernity with its economic and technological transformations generates new mobile lifestyles that challenge officially recognized forms of human mobility. The new European nomads presented in this … Continue reading Lifestyle migration as marginal mobilities – new articles available online