Part 1: Seeking Idealized Lifestyles and Appropriating Place(s)
1. In Search of the Rural Idyll: Lifestyle Migrants across the European Union
SOFIA GASPAR
2. Idyllic Seekers and Liminal Beings: Lifestyle Migrants in Central Portugal
JOÃO SARDINHA
3. House Ownership Home or Away: Distributed Habitat as a Means of Negotiating Spatiotemporal
Characteristics of Lifestyle Migrants’ Kinship
ALESYA KRIT
4. Pursuing the Essence of Existence: The Daily Quest of Utopian Migrants in Pucón, Northern Patagonia
HUGO MARCELO ZUNINO AND IEVA ZEBRYTE
Part 2: Ageing and Lifestyle Mobilities
5. Understanding the Production and Performance Aspects of Lifestyle Mobilities
ULRIKA ÅKERLUND
6. Being a Tourist–Being at Home: Reconstructing Tourist Experiences and Negotiating Home in
Retirement Migrants’ Daily Lives
STEFAN KORDEL
7. The Myth of No Return? Why Retired British Migrants in Spain Return to the UK
CHARLES BETTY AND KELLY HALL
Part 3: Mediation of Lifestyle Mobilities
8. An Exploration of a Lifestyle Migration Industry
INÊS DAVID, MARCO EIMERMANN AND ULRIKA ÅKERLUND
9. “The More Wine you Drink, the Better the French Sounds”: Representations of the Good Life within
an Online Community of Practice
MICHELLE LAWSON
10. “Small Items for Sale; Moral High-horse I’m Trying to Get Rid of”: Online Listserv Rhetoric in
Expatria
MOLLY CLARK-BAROL, CASEY MCHUGH AND ROGER NORUM
Part 4: Language and Identity Practices in Lifestyle Migration
11. A Critical and Ethnographic Approach to Language Practices in Lifestyle Migrations
AUDE ETRILLARD
12. “The Only Portuguese People I Know Speak English”: Lifestyle Migrants, Local Language Practices
and Ambivalent Belongings
KATE TORKINGTON
13. Lifestyle Migrants in the Algarve (Portugal): A Multilingual Challenge
FILIPA PERDIGÃO RIBEIRO
14. Negotiating White Privilege: Whiteness and Lifestyle Migration in Ecuador
MATTHEW HAYES