Lifestyle Migration and Colonial Traces in Malaysia and Panama

• Main Authors: Benson, Michaela (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), O'Reilly, Karen (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship,
• Subjects: Emigration and immigration.; Ethnography.; Imperialism.; Sports-Sociological aspects.; Culture.; Migration.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; Sociology of Sport and Leisure.; Sociology of Culture.

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 pr...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Colonial traces and neoliberal presents: situating Malaysia and Panama
• Chapter 3: Residential Tourism and economic development: Imagineering Boquete and Penang
• Chapter 4: Governance as practice: regulating lifestyle migration
• Chapter 5: Diverse Lives: weaving Personal Stories
• Chapter 6: Working towards the good life
• Chapter 7: Home-making and the reproduction of privilege
• Chapter 8: The pursuit of well-being and a healthy way of life
• Chapter 9: Telling practice stories of lifestyle migration:at the intersections of postcoloniality and neoliberalism.