Practising the good life : lifestyle migration in practices / edited by Kate Torkington, Inês David and João Sardinha.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Torkington, Kate, editor.

David, Inês, editor.

Sardinha, João, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Emigration and immigration.

Lifestyles.

Immigrants.

Rural conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This edited collection adds to the growing body of research on lifestyle migration with empirically grounded explorations focusing on a wide range of practices involved in living 'the good life'. The volume brings together a variety of socio-geographical contexts-from Swedish 'lifestyle movers' in Malta, retired Britons and Germans in Spain, and seekers of the 'rural idyll' in the Iberian Peninsula, to expats in Nepal, North Americans in Ecuador and 'utopian' lifestyle migrants in Patagonia-t...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES; INTRODUCTION; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; PART II; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; PART III; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; PART IV; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4438-7934-7

OCLC:

913333294