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Place and Lifestyle Migration: The Discursive Construction of 'Glocal' Place-Identity

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  • Kate Torkington

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International lifestyle migration is a rapidly growing worldwide phenomenon. Within Europe, increasingly large numbers of northern Europeans are moving south in search of what they perceive as a better quality of life. The typical representation of this form of migration suggests that it is consumption-led, tourism-related and leisure-based; it is to be located within late modern, global, elitist, borderless and highly mobile social practices. The question arises as to the role of local place in this type of migration process and in the construction of individual and collective social identities. Using data from advertising texts produced by a residential-tourism resort and from indepth interviews with British residents in the Golden Triangle area of the Algarve, Portugal, this article explores the relationships between discourse, identity, g/local place and lifestyle migration.

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  • Kate Torkington, 2012. "Place and Lifestyle Migration: The Discursive Construction of 'Glocal' Place-Identity," Mobilities, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 7(1), pages 71-92, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rmobxx:v:7:y:2012:i:1:p:71-92
    DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.631812
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    1. Angela Delli Paoli & Domenico Maddaloni, 2021. "Conceptualizing Motives for Migration: a Typology of Italian Migrants in the Athens Area," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Springer, vol. 22(4), pages 1465-1484, December.
    2. Frans J. Willekens, 2014. "Demographic transitions in Europe and the world," MPIDR Working Papers WP-2014-004, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.
    3. Gianluca Egidi & Giovanni Quaranta & Luca Salvati & Filippo Gambella & Enrico Maria Mosconi & Antonio Giménez Morera & Andrea Colantoni, 2020. "Unraveling Causes and Consequences of International Retirement Migration to Coastal and Rural Areas in Mediterranean Europe," Land, MDPI, vol. 9(11), pages 1-15, October.
    4. Ilaria Zambon & Luca Salvati, 2019. "Residential Mobility At Older Ages In Europe And The Regional Context: A Brief Commentary," Romanian Journal of Regional Science, Romanian Regional Science Association, vol. 13(2), pages 26-41, DECEMBER.
    5. Pavelka, Joe & Draper, Dianne, 2015. "Leisure negotiation within amenity migration," Annals of Tourism Research, Elsevier, vol. 50(C), pages 128-142.

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