Lifestyle Migration and Colonial Traces in Malaysia and Panama

Michaela Benson is Reader in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. She is renowned for her work on lifestyle migration, and has been conducting research and writing on this topic since the early 2000s. She is the author of The British in Rural France (2011), which was shortlisted for the British Sociological Association’s Philip Abrams Memorial Prize (2012), co-author of The Middle Classes and the City (2015), co-editor of Lifestyle Migration (2009) and Understanding Lifestyle Migration (2015). Karen O’Reilly is Professor Emerita at Loughborough University, UK. Through her research on British migrants living in Spain in the 1990s, she set the agenda for the sociological study of British migration. She is the author of The British on the Costa del Sol (2000), Ethnographic Methods (2011), Key Concepts in Ethnography (2008) and International Migration and Social Theory (2012) which wonthe CHOICE outstanding academic title award.

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.