Lifestyle Migration

Relatively affluent individuals from various corners of the globe are increasingly choosing to migrate, spurred on by the promise of a better and more fulfilling way of life within their destination. Through rich empirical case studies this volume addresses this important and increasingly common form of migration in a manner that will interest scholars of mobility, migration, lifestyle and culture across the social sciences.

Michaela Benson is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK and Karen O' Reilly is Reader in Sociology at Loughborough University, UK

Chapter 1 Lifestyle Migration, Karen O'Reilly, Michaela Benson; Chapter 2 When a Trip to Adulthood becomes a Lifestyle, Mari Korpela; Chapter 3 Pursuing the Good Life, Brian A. Hoey; Chapter 4 Romance Tourists, Foreign Wives or Retirement Migrants? Cross-cultural Marriage in Florence, Italy, Catherine Trundle; Chapter 5 Your Home in Spain, Per Gustafson; Chapter 6 Social Capital in the Sun, Maria Angeles Casado-Diaz; Chapter 7 The Children of the Hunters, Karen O'Reilly; Chapter 8 A Desire for Difference, Michaela Benson; Chapter 9 Taking the Risk, Ozlem Nudrali, Karen O'Reilly; Chapter 10 Lifestyle Afterthoughts, Jacqueline Waldren;