Contested Spatialities, Lifestyle Migration and Residential Tourism Edited by Michael Janoschka and Heiko Haas Lifestyle Migration and Residential Tourism represent a major trend in individualized societies worldwide, which is attracting a rapidly growing interest from the academic community. This volume for the first time, critically analyses the spatial, social and political consequences of such leisure-oriented … Continue reading New edited volume on lifestyle migration

By Maria Casado-Diaz et al. Abstract A general trend in the study of international retirement migration has been the increased attention paid to the social contacts and network connections of the migrants in both the destination and the origin areas. These studies have examined the extent to which migrants build social relationships with their neighbours … Continue reading New paper: Linking tourism, retirement migration and social capital

By Matthew Hayes ‘We Gained a Lot Over What We Would Have Had’: The Geographic Arbitrage of North American Lifestyle Migrants to Cuenca, Ecuador I really recommend this article - it re-introduces and makes a place for economic structures in understanding lifestyle migration through the concept of geographic arbitrage. Abstract: This article reports on the … Continue reading New Article on Lifestyle Migration in Ecuador

By Michaela Benson This is the first article from my research on North Americans living in Panama. It has been some time in coming since the research was conducted in 2009. What I wanted to demonstrate was that as researchers we needed to think not only critically about privilege, but also about what this means … Continue reading Postcoloniality and Privilege in New Lifestyle Flows: The Case of North Americans in Panama

¿Un lugar en el sol para quién? El turismo residencial y sus consecuencias para el desarrollo equitativo y sostenible en Guanacaste, Costa Rica This is a article based on research by Femke van Noorloos. It looks at the impacts of residential tourism in Guanacaste, Costa Rica and its relationship with development. The full article, in Spanish, … Continue reading A place in the sun for who? Residential tourism and its consequences for equitable and sustainable development in Guanacaste, Costa Rica

By Raquel Huete, Alejandro Mantecón & Jesús Estévez This article raises interesting questions about the role of economics in lifestyle migration, particularly in a time of economic crisis. It is available here and the abstract appears below. The lifestyle migration conceptual framework is based on the motivation for moving reported by the migrants themselves. We discuss the operability of this … Continue reading Challenges in Lifestyle Migration Research: Reflections and Findings about the Spanish Crisis

By Femke van Noorloos This article looks at the interactions of lifestyle migrants local communities, with a focus on Guanacaste, Costa Rica. The great news is that it is open access - so anyone can read it. It is available here. The abstract appears below: Current patterns of “move-in move-out” hypermobility are perfectly exemplified by … Continue reading Residential Tourism and Multiple Mobilities: Local Citizenship and Community Fragmentation in Costa Rica

By Ulrika Åkerlund, Department of Geography and Economic History, Umeå University Housing Studies (forthcoming) DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2013.773584 This paper focus on international acquisition of recreational property, and focuses on the demand side as it examines the buyers’ behavior during the acquisition process. Property acquisition is understood as an integral part of the search for the ‘good life’, … Continue reading Buying a Place Abroad – Processes of Recreational Property Acquisition

By Ulrika Åkerlund (Department of Geography and Economic History, Umeå University) Anatolia: An International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research 23(2): 251-267 DOI: 10.1080/13032917.2012.687691 The phenomenon of temporary migration motivated by leisure values, has been observed in many places in the world during the last couple of decades, and may be positioned as a form … Continue reading Selling a Place in the Sun – International Property Mediation as Production of Lifestyle Mobility