Understanding Lifestyle Migration
Subtitle: Theoretical Approaches to Migration and the Quest for a Better Way of Life
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited; Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9781137328663
Subjects: Lifestyles; Immigrants; Europe, emigration and immigration; United states, emigration and immigration
Description: Understanding Lifestyle Migration contributes to the wider turn towards understanding migration through the lens of social theory. It is the first volume to question how lifestyle migration and related phenomena can be understood contributing to this rapidly expanding field of research, and moving beyond definitional considerations to engage deeper understandings of such migrations. It thus aims to set a new and challenging research agenda that brings together researchers from a range of disciplines and geographical locations working on related forms of migration. 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, imagination and representations, and community attachments and belonging.