Understanding Lifestyle Migration

1. 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

Part I. Constraints and Opportunities

2. Lifestyle of Freedom? Individualism and Lifestyle Migration
Mari Korpela

3. Negotiating Privilege in and through Lifestyle Migration
Michaela Benson

Part II. Revisiting Assumptions

4. Theorising the ‘Fifth Migration’ in the United States: Understanding Lifestyle Migration from an Integrated Approach
Brian A. Hoey

5. Jumping Up from the Armchair: Beyond the Idyll in Counterurbanisation
Keith Halfacree

Part III. Spaces of Imagination

6. Migrating Imaginaries of a Better Life … Until Paradise Finds You
Noel B. Salazar

7. Britons in Berlin: Imagined Cityscapes, Affective Encounters and the Cultivation of the Self
David Griffiths, Stella Maile

Part IV. Stillness and Sedentariness

8. Beyond Ahistoricity and Mobilities in Lifestyle Migration Research
Nick Osbaldiston

9. No Man Can Be an Island: Lifestyle Migration, Stillness, and the New Quietism
Phillip Vannini, Jonathan Taggart

Part V. Looking Onwards and Outwards

10. The Role of the Social Imaginary in Lifestyle Migration: Employing the Ontology of Practice Theory
Karen O’Reilly

Keywords: Social Sciences, Migration, Human Geography, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Geography, general, Sociology, general, Demography