Mapping the field
This section brings together key references in the field of privileged mobilities and migration. All papers have been suggested by members of the PriMob network. This is a non-exhaustive list and will be updated constantly.
For each topic, references are displayed in alphabetical order (of surname).
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The notion of privilege in migration/mobilities
Benson, Michaela (2013) Postcoloniality and privilege in new lifestyle flows: The case of North Americans in Panama, Mobilities, 8 (3), 313-330
Croucher, Sheila (2012) Privileged Mobility in an Age of Globality, Societies, 2, 1–13
Leonard, Pauline & Katie Walsh (Eds.) (2018) British Migration: Privilege, Diversity and Vulnerability. London: Routledge
Privilege, race, ethnicity, whiteness
Armbruster, Heidi. (2010) ‘Realising the Self and ‘Developing the African’ German Immigrants in Namibia’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 36 (8), 1229–1246
Bailey, Alison (1998) Privilege: expanding on Marilyn Frye’s ‘Oppression’, Journal of Social Philosophy, 29 (3), 104–119
Fechter, Anne-Meike (2005). The ‘Other’ stares back Experiencing whiteness in Jakarta. Ethnography, 6 (1), 87–103
Higgins, Katie & Jessica Terruhn (2020) Kinship, whiteness and the politics of belonging among British migrants and Pākehā in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, e-publication
Koskela, Kaisu (2020) “Claims to a nation, dressing the part and other boundary making strategies by skilled migrants in response to ethnic categorization”, Social Identities
Knowles, Caroline & Douglas Harper (2009) Hong Kong: migrant lives, landscapes, and journeys. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Kunz, Sarah (2020) Expatriate, migrant? The social life of migration categories and the polyvalent mobility of race, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 46:11, 2145-2162
Leonard, Pauline (2008) Migrating identities: gender, whiteness and Britishness in post-colonial Hong Kong. Gender, Place & Culture, 15(1) 45-60
Privileged migration and (post)coloniality
Benson, Michaela & Karen O’Reilly (2018) Lifestyle migration and colonial traces in Malaysia and Panama. New York: Palgrave Macmillan
Coles, Anne & Katie Walsh (2010) From ‘Trucial State’ to ‘Postcolonial’ City? The Imaginative Geographies of British Expatriates in Dubai, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 36(8), 1317–1333
Fechter, Anne-Meike & Katie Walsh (2012) The new expatriates: postcolonial approaches to mobile professionals. Routledge
Fechter, Anne-Meike & Walsh, Katie (2010) Examining ‘Expatriate’ Continuities: Postcolonial Approaches to Mobile Professionals, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 36 (8), 1197–1210
Fechter, Anne-Meike (2010) Gender, Empire, Global Capitalism: Colonial and Corporate Expatriate Wives, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 36 (8), 1279–1297
Korpela, Mari (2010) A Postcolonial Imagination? Westerners Searching for Authenticity in India, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 36 (8), 1299-1315
Kothari, Uma (2006) From Colonialism to development: Reflections of former Colonial Officers, Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, 44 (1), 118–136
Kothari, Uma (2006) Spatial practices and imaginaries: Experiences of colonial officers and development professionals, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 27( 3), 235–253
Leggett, William (2013) The flexible imagination: at Work in the transnational corporate offices of Jakarta, Indonesia. Lanham: Lexington
Lifestyle migration
Benson, Michaela & Karen O’Reilly (2009) Migration and the search for a better way of life: a critical exploration of lifestyle migration, The Sociological Review, 57 (4), 608-625
Conradson, David & Alan Latham (2005) ‘Friendship, networks and transnationality in a world city: Antipodean transmigrants in London’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 31 (2), 287-305
Croucher, Sheila (2009) The Other Side of the Fence: American Migrants in Mexico; University of Texas Press: Austin, TX, USA
Hayes, Matthew (2018) Gringolandia: Lifestyle Migration under Late Capitalism, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
Higgins, Katie (2018) Lifestyle migration and settler colonialism: the imaginative geographies of British migrants to Aotearoa New Zealand, Population, Space and Place, 24(3), e2112
Highly-skilled migration
Habti, Driss & Maria Elo (Eds.) (2019) Global Mobility of Highly Skilled People. Cham: Switzerland: Springer
Iredale, Robyn (2001) ‘The Migration of Professionals: Theories and Typologies’, International Migration, 39 (5), 7-26
Ryan, Louise & Jon Mulholland (2014) ‘Trading places: French highly skilled migrants negotiating mobility and emplacement in London’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 40 (4), 584-600
Scott, Sam (2006) The Social Morphology of Skilled Migration: The Case of the British Middle Class in Paris, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 32 (7), 1105-1129
Expats
Cranston, Sophie (2017) Expatriate as a ‘good’ Migrant: thinking through skilled international migrant categories, Population, Space and Place 23, e2058
Croucher, Sheila (2009) Migrants of privilege: the political transnationalism of Americans in Mexico, Identities, 16 (4), 463–491
Fechter, Anne-Meike (2007) Transnational lives: expatriates in Indonesia, Aldershot, Burlington: Ashgate
Klekowski von Koppenfels, Amanda (2014) Migrants or Expatriates? Americans in Europe, Palgrave Macmillan
Kunz, Sarah (2016) Privileged mobilities: Locating the expatriate in migration scholarship. Geography Compass, 10 (3), 89-101
Kunz, Sarah (2020) A business empire and its migrants: Royal Dutch Shell and the management of racial capitalism, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 45, 377-391
McNulty, Yvonne & Jan Selmer (Eds.) (2017) Research handbook of expatriates, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing
Polson, Erika (2016) Privileged Mobilities: Professional Migration, Geo-Social Media, and a New Global Middle Class, New York: Peter Lang Publishing Inc.
Walsh, Katie (2007) ‘It got very debauched, very Dubai!’ Heterosexual intimacy amongst single British expatriates, Social & Cultural Geography, 8 (4), 507–533
Walsh, Katie (2010) Negotiating migrant status in the emerging global city: Britons in Dubai. Encounters, 2, 235–255
Walsh, Katie (2012) Emotion and migration: British transnationals in Dubai. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 30 (1), 43–59
Walsh, Katie (2014) Placing Transnational Migrants through Comparative Research: British Migrant Belonging in Five GCC Cities, Population, Space and Place, 20 (1), 1–17
Investment migration
Boatcă, Manuela (2016) Commodification of citizenship. Global inequalities and the modern transmission of property. In: Wallerstein, Immanuel, Cristopher Chase-Dunn & Christian Suter (Eds.) Overcoming Global Inequalities, Routledge
Džankić, Jelena (2018) Immigrant investor programmes in the European Union (EU), Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 26 (1), 64–80
Gamlen, Alan, Chris Kutarna & Ashby Monk (2019) Citizenship as sovereign wealth: re‐thinking investor immigration, Global Policy, 10 (4), 527-541
Gaspar, Sofia & Fernando Ampudia de Haro (2020) Buying Citizenship? Chinese Golden Visa Migrants in Portugal, International Migration, 58 (3), 58-72
Kutz, William & Julia Lenhardt (2016) “Where to put the spare cash?” Subprime urbanization and the geographies of the financial crisis in the Global South, Urban Geography, 37 (6), 926-948
McGregor, Joann (2014) Sentimentality or speculation? Diaspora investment, crisis economies and urban transformation, Geoforum, 56, 172–181
Montezuma, Joaquim & Jennifer McGarrigle (2019) What motivates international homebuyers? Investor to lifestyle ‘migrants’ in a tourist city, Tourism Geographies, 21 (2), 214-234
Shachar, Ayelet & Rainer Baubock (2014) Should citizenship be for sale?, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Working Paper
Shachar, Ayelet & Ran Hirschl (2014) On citizenship, states, and markets, Journal of Political Philosophy, 22 (2), 231-257
Surak, Kristin (2020) Millionaire mobility and the sale of citizenship, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, e-publication
Entrepreneurial migration
Haandrikman, Karen & Natasha Webster (2020) Migrant, woman and business owner: A heterogeneous group with diverse needs. Working Paper, Kulturgeografiskt Seminarium, Stockholm University
Van Rooij, Niek & Lusine Margaryan (2019) Integration of “Ideal Migrants”: Dutch lifestyle expat-preneurs in Swedish campgrounds, Rural Society 28 (3), 183-197
Webster, Natasha & Karen Haandrikman (2020) Exploring the Role of Privilege in Migrant Women’s Self-Employment, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, e-publication
Digital nomads
McElroy, Erin (2019) Digital nomads in siliconising Cluj: Material and allegorical double dispossession. Urban Studies, 57 (15), 3078-3094
Polson, Erika (2020) The aspirational class ‘mobility’ of digital nomads. In: Polson, Erika, Lynn Clark & Radhika Gajjala (Eds.) The Routledge Companion to Media & Class, 168–179, Routledge
Thompson, Beverly (2018) Digital nomads: employment in the online gig economy, Journal of Culture Politics & Innovation, 1-27
Retirement migration
Botterill, Kate (2016) Discordant Lifestyle Mobilities in East Asia: Privilege and Precarity of British Retirement in Thailand, Population, Space, and Place, 23 (5): e2011
Green, Paul (2015) Mobility Regimes in Practice: Later-life Westerners and Visa Runs in South-East Asia, Mobilities, 10 (5), 748-763
Privilege, mobilities and tourism
Novy, Johannes (2018) ‘Destination’ Berlin revisited. From (new) tourism towards a pentagon of mobility and place consumption, Tourism Geographies, 20:3, 418-442
Scuzzarello, Sarah (2020) Practising privilege. How settling in Thailand enables older Western migrants to enact privilege over local people, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 46 (8), 606-1628
Policy
Hayes, Matthew (2015) Moving south: the economic motives and structural contexts of North America’s emigrants in Cuenca, Ecuador, Mobilities, 10 (2), 267-284
Bohemian migration
Korpela, Mari (2020) Searching for a countercultural life abroad: neo-nomadism, lifestyle mobility or bohemian lifestyle migration?, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 46 (15), 3352-3369
Privileged migration and urban space
Cocola-Gant, Agustin & Antonio Lopez-Gay (2020) Transnational Gentrification, Tourism and the Formation of ‘Foreign Only’ Enclaves in Barcelona, Urban Studies 57 (15), 3025–43
Hayes, Matthew & Hila Zaban (2020) Transnational gentrification: The crossroads of transnational mobility and urban research, Urban Studies, 57 (15), 3009-3024
Meier, Lars (2015) Learning the city by experiences and images: German finance managers’ encounters in London and Singapore. In: Meier, Lars (Ed.) Migrant Professionals in the City: Local Encounters, Identities and Inequalities, 59–74, Routledge