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Lifestyle Migration to Bocas del Toro, Panama: Exploring Migration Strategies and Introducing Local Implications of the Search for Paradise

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Spalding A. K.
International Review of Social Research
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2013
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vol. 3
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issue 1
67-86
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Lifestyle migration, the flow of relatively affluent people from developed to developing countries, is characterized by the search for ‘lifestyle’ destinations with warm climates, reduced costs of living, and perceived higher quality of life. Mexico, Costa Rica, and Panama are three current major lifestyle migration destinations in Latin America. In this article I explore the emergence of this relatively new phenomenon in the Bocas del Toro Archipelago in Northwestern Panama by discussing the contradiction between lifestyle migrants’ idealized perception of place and local realities. I also introduce the implications of these contradicting versions of reality, and how they play out at the local level. Results show that, in general, foreign residents are attracted to Bocas del Toro as a physical manifestation of globally produced images and perceptions of tropical island living. However, an in-depth exploration reveals contradictions between expectations and reality. I suggest that foreigners exhibit a set of attitudes and behaviors towards their new home that are defined by a shared cultural and economic background that, on the ground, contribute to the creation of emerging markets, land conflicts, and changes in environmental practices. The ensuing narrative is contingent upon tensions between and within social, political, and ecological variables at the global and local levels.
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“Find Your Nature” in the Swiss Alps  : In Search of a Better Life in the Mountains

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Boscoboinik A., Cretton V.
Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)
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2017
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vol. 104
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issue 2
199-212
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This paper reflects upon the nature/culture dichotomy while focusing on mountain landscapes understood as ideal places for a better life. Taking as example a region in the Swiss Alps, it analyses the motivations that lead mostly urban people to settle in mountain regions for the last three decades. Drawing on long-term multi-sited fieldworks in Swiss alpine villages, it highlights new forms of migration, not directly for economic reasons, as well as the representations of mountains as a trendy ‘culturalised’ natural place for living, especially for middle and upper urban classes. While giving voice to the research participants to understand the change in values and preferences towards mountain areas, this article enlightens the underlying factors behind amenity-led migration, lifestyle migration and multi-locality. It demonstrates how the nature/culture divide is being reshaped in the contemporary Swiss alpine context, where nature has become a cultural project.
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Lifestyle Migration in South Sinai, Egypt: Nationalisation, Privileged Citizenship and Indigenous Rights

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Karkabi N.
International Review of Social Research
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2013
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vol. 3
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issue 1
49-66
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The South Sinai region in Egypt has been a politically disputed borderland. After three decades, it was transformed to a tourist area and, in recent years, seen the development of residential settlements as well. This paper will explore how European lifestyle migrants and indigenous Bedouins negotiate civil membership vis-à-vis the Egyptian state in the tourist coastal towns in the area. It will discuss the implementation of governmental policies to nationalise South Sinai, on the one hand, and the establishment of civic spaces operating on free global market basis in order to achieve financial development, on the other. The contradiction between these two processes created a situation where a group of foreign migrants was allowed privileged rights, whereas indigenous Bedouins were collectively marginalised. By relating to policies regarding property ownership and accommodation of lifestyle migration, I will discuss how the Egyptian government allowed not only individual inequality, but also a categorical difference, to prevail based on tribal affiliation and financial qualifications away from national belonging. The violation of the sensitive equilibrium operating within the frames of the modern nation-state, between the idea of national community with equal rights and that of free economic rights to individual property, has created a threat to the Egyptian state as a governing authority.
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Dylematy polskich migrantów lifestylowych po Brexicie w ujęciu morfogenetycznym Margaret Archer

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Szkudlarek A.
Kultura i Społeczeństwo
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2023
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vol. 67
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issue 2
105-132
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The UK’s decision to leave the EU and its political consequences are potentially endangering migrants’ agency. The article shows how “destabilising events” are affecting the plans and strategies of Polish lifestyle migrants and their agency. The analysis is based on a qualitative study conducted one year after the Brexit referendum, using in-depth interviews with long-term Polish post-accession migrants, whose mobility was predominantly lifestyle-driven. While referring to Archer’s morphogenetic approach and the concept of social anchoring, the aim of the research is to shed light on factors that might influence Polish migrants’ decision-making process concerning their future mobility or settlement in the UK. The study’s findings lead to the conclusion that in the face of “destabilising events”, future migration plans and the agency of individuals are related only to a limited extent to structural factors. Although the referendum prompted migrants to reflect on and verify their life projects, personal factors seem to be of more importance than political events, and they are what will shape migrants’ future actions.
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Decyzja Wielkiej Brytanii skutkująca opuszczeniem Unii Europejskiej mogła potencjalnie w znaczący sposób wpłynąć na sprawczość (agency) jednostek. Celem artykułu jest znalezienie powiązań między planami i strategiami migracyjnymi polskich migrantów lifestylowych, a wynikami głosowania oraz sprawczością jednostek w oparciu o wywiady pogłębione z polskimi migrantami poakcesyjnymi przeprowadzone w rok po referendum w sprawie Brexitu. Odwołując się do podejścia morfogenetycznego Archer oraz wykorzystując koncepcję zakotwiczania dokonano opisu i analizy czynników wpływających na decyzje dotyczące mobilności przestrzennej lub zadomowiania się Polaków w Wielkiej Brytanii. Wyniki badania prowadzą do wniosku, iż wydarzenia polityczne związane z Brexitem w ograniczonym stopniu powiązane są z przyszłymi planami migracyjnymi oraz sprawczością jednostek. Choć referendum skłoniło badanych do refleksji i weryfikacji dotychczasowych zamiarów, to czynniki osobiste okazały się determinować ich przyszłe decyzje.
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