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

By Ulrika Åkerlund The doctoral thesis ‘The Best of Both Worlds – Aspirations, Drivers and Practices of Swedish Lifestyle Movers in Malta’ have recently been published and is available in full text. (link: http://umu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?searchId=4&pid=diva2:664246 ) Abstract It has often been claimed that contemporary societies are shaped by globalization; the rapid interconnections of societies, economies, markets, … Continue reading New thesis on lifestyle mobility

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