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The Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship series covers three important aspects of
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Bridget Anderson and Isabel Shutes (editors)
MIGRATION AND CARE LABOUR
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Rutvica Andrijasevic
MIGRATION, AGENCY AND CITIZENSHIP IN SEX TRAFFICKING
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CONTESTING INTEGRATION, ENGENDERING MIGRATION
Theory and Practice
Michaela Benson and Nick Osbaldiston
UNDERSTANDING LIFESTYLE MIGRATION
Theoretical Approaches to Migration and the Quest for a Better Way of Life
Gideon Calder, Phillip Cole and Jonathan Seglow
CITIZENSHIP ACQUISITION AND NATIONAL BELONGING
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Prodromos Panayiotopoulos
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Dominic Pasura
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Vicky Squire
THE EXCLUSIONARY POLITICS OF ASYLUM
Lucy Williams
GLOBAL MARRIAGE
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Understanding
Lifestyle Migration
Theoretical Approaches to Migration
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Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
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Federation University, Australia
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Contents
List of Figures v ii
Acknowledgements viii
Notes on Contributors x
1 New Horizons in Lifestyle Migration Research:
Theorising Movement, Settlement and the Search for
a Better Way of Life 1
Michaela Benson and Nick Osbaldiston
Part I Constraints and Opportunities
2 Lifestyle of Freedom? Individualism and Lifestyle
Migration 27
Mari Korpela
3 Negotiating Privilege in and through Lifestyle Migration 4 7
Michaela Benson
Part II Revisiting Assumptions
4 Theorising the ‘Fifth Migration’ in the United States:
Understanding Lifestyle Migration from an
Integrated Approach 71
Brian A. Hoey
5 Jumping Up from the Armchair: Beyond the Idyll in
Counterurbanisation 92
Keith Halfacree
Part III Spaces of Imagination
6 Migrating Imaginaries of a Better Life ... Until Paradise
Finds You 119
Noel B. Salazar
7 Britons in Berlin: Imagined Cityscapes, Affective
Encounters and the Cultivation of the Self 1 39
David Griffiths and Stella Maile
v
vi Contents
Part IV Stillness and Sedentariness
8 B eyond Ahistoricity and Mobilities in Lifestyle
Migration Research 1 63
N ick Osbaldiston
9 N o Man Can Be an Island: Lifestyle Migration,
Stillness, and the New Quietism 1 88
P hillip Vannini and Jonathan Taggart
Part V Looking Onwards and Outwards
10 The Role of the Social Imaginary in Lifestyle
Migration: Employing the Ontology of Practice Theory 211
K aren O’Reilly
Index 235
List of Figures
3.1 Map of administrative divisions in France, with the
Lot marked up 5 4
3.2 Map of Panama, indicating the location of the field
site, Boquete 55
9.1 A rather un-crowded beach, near our cabin 189
9.2 Judy and two of her friendly goats 190
9.3 ‘Walter’, as we have decided to call him 1 93
9.4 Jim shows us how he monitors his water use 2 04
vii
Acknowledgements
The shape of the volume is very much the product of the dialogue
between Nick and me. His acute understanding of social theory and how
this can be put to work in understanding lifestyle migration inspired the
original idea for the volume and continues to inspire my own under-
standings and interpretations of this social phenomenon. I thank him
wholeheartedly for being such a great co-editor and author, in what has
been a truly collaborative project.
Throughout this process, the contributors have been excited and
enthusiastic about the project, sentiments that clearly come across in
the pages of the project. While I am grateful to all of our contributors
for bringing this energy to the table, I am particularly thankful to Karen
O’Reilly, who has not only written a thoughtful and engaging conclu-
sion to the volume, but has provided insightful and constructive advice
to Nick and me on our own contributions and the co-authored intro-
duction. In the construction of my own chapter, and in particular the
development of the theoretical framing, I wish to thank Dave Beer for
lending a listening ear, and Laurie Hanquinet for her careful and critical
reading of my Bourdieusian interpretations. I also thank my partner,
Dimitrios Theodossopoulos for being an initial sounding board for my
ideas.
From the outset, Phillipa Grand at Palgrave MacMillan has been
supportive and encouraging of the project. I would also like to thank the
editors of the series, Robin Cohen and Zig Layton-Henry, for including
our volume in their excellent series.
Michaela Benson,
Goldsmiths College
I first wish to express my gratitude to my co-editor Michaela for initially
suggesting the idea for this book and then for shaping it with her
experience and detailed understanding of not just Lifestyle Migration
as a phenomenon but also the literature surrounding it. It has been a
pleasure to work with her and hopefully this experience will lead to
other opportunities. I would also like to thank our contributors who
have been excellent and professional in the delivery of their mate-
rial, especially Karen O’Reilly who has provided advice and guidance
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Acknowledgements ix
in the development of the book. It would be remiss of me also not to
acknowledge Palgrave Macmillan for their willingness to take on board
this project, especially Naomi Robinson and Philippa Grand. I would
also like to extend a personal thank you to people who have assisted
me personally as this book has come to fruition including Peta Cook,
Fabian Cannizzo, Felicity Picken and David Inglis for taking time out of
his schedule to explore his ideas with me. Lastly to my family, Bianca,
Scarlett, Ollie and Henri, I’m once again indebted to your patience and
encouragement during the editing of the book.
Nick Osbaldiston,
Federation University
