Michaela Benson

Lifestyle Migration

Expectations, Aspirations and Experiences
Herausgeber: O'Reilly, Karen

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780754675679
• ISBN-10: 075467567X
• Artikelnr.: 42354304

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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;