Lifestyle Migration and Colonial Traces in Malaysia and Panama

Lifestyle Migration and Colonial Traces in Malaysia and Panama - Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship

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Publisher's Synopsis

Leading scholars in the sociology of migration, Michaela Benson and Karen O'Reilly, re-theorise lifestyle migration through a sustained focus on postcolonialism at its intersections with neoliberalism. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the interplay of colonial traces and neoliberal presents, the relationship between residential tourism and economic development, and the governance and regulation of lifestyle migration. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork undertaken by the authors among lifestyle migrants in Malaysia and Panama, they reveal the structural and material conditions that support migration and how these are embodied by migrant subjects, while also highlighting their agency within this process. This rigorous work marks an important contribution to emerging debates surrounding privileged migration and mobility. It will appeal to sociologists, social theorists, human and cultural geographers, economists, social psychologists, demographers, social anthropologists,tourism and migration studies specialists.



Book information

ISBN: 9781137511577
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:
DEWEY: 304.8
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 315
Weight: 675g
Height: 210mm
Width: 148mm
Spine width: 25mm