Understanding Lifestyle Migration

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. New Horizons in Lifestyle Migration Research: Theorising Movement, Settlement and the Search for a Better Way of Life

   1. New Horizons in Lifestyle Migration Research: Theorising Movement, Settlement and the Search for a Better Way of Life

      • Michaela Benson, Nick Osbaldiston

      Pages 1-23

3. Constraints and Opportunities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25

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   2. Lifestyle of Freedom? Individualism and Lifestyle Migration

      • Mari Korpela

      Pages 27-46

   3. Negotiating Privilege in and through Lifestyle Migration

      • Michaela Benson

      Pages 47-68

4. Revisiting Assumptions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69

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   2. Theorising the ‘Fifth Migration’ in the United States: Understanding Lifestyle Migration from an Integrated Approach

      • Brian A. Hoey

      Pages 71-91

   3. Jumping Up from the Armchair: Beyond the Idyll in Counterurbanisation

      • Keith Halfacree

      Pages 92-115

5. Spaces of Imagination

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117

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   2. Migrating Imaginaries of a Better Life … Until Paradise Finds You

      • Noel B. Salazar

      Pages 119-138

   3. Britons in Berlin: Imagined Cityscapes, Affective Encounters and the Cultivation of the Self

      • David Griffiths, Stella Maile

      Pages 139-159

6. Stillness and Sedentariness

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-161

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   2. Beyond Ahistoricity and Mobilities in Lifestyle Migration Research

      • Nick Osbaldiston

      Pages 163-187

   3. No Man Can Be an Island: Lifestyle Migration, Stillness, and the New Quietism

      • Phillip Vannini, Jonathan Taggart

      Pages 188-208

7. Looking Onwards and Outwards

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209

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   2. The Role of the Social Imaginary in Lifestyle Migration: Employing the Ontology of Practice Theory

      • Karen O’Reilly

      Pages 211-234

8. Back Matter

   Pages 235-237

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This book draws on social theories to understand lifestyle migration as a social phenomenon. 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 and imagination.

• consumption
• migration
• Nation
• Urbanisation

• Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

  Michaela Benson

• Federation University, Australia

  Nick Osbaldiston

David Griffiths, independent writer, UK Keith Halfacree, Swansea University, UK Brian Hoey, Marshall University, US Mari Korpela, University of Tampere, Finland Stella Maile, University of the West of England, UK Karen O'Reilly, Loughborough University, UK Noel Salazar, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Jonathan Taggart, photographer and writer, Canada Phillip Vannini, Royal Roads University, Canada

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