Geographies of global lifestyle migration: Towards an anticolonial approach

Kelsey Emard; Lise Nelson

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Geographies of global lifestyle migration: Towards an anticolonial approach

Kelsey Emard, Lise Nelson

Geography, Development and Enviroment, School of

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This article brings the critiques of anticolonial theorists into conversation with the burgeoning literature on Global North-to-South lifestyle migration – including scholarship employing related terminologies such as residential tourism and amenity migration. Our review synthesizes strengths in this multi-disciplinary literature while also drawing attention to most scholars’ limited engagement with the ways colonial relations of power constitute these flows. We propose an anticolonial approach for conducting global lifestyle migration research and demonstrate both the conceptual and methodological dimensions of such an approach by drawing on research conducted in Talamanca, Costa Rica.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1040-1060
Number of pages	21
Journal	Progress in Human Geography
Volume	45
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132520957723
State	Published - Oct 2021

Keywords

amenity migration
anticolonial
decolonial
lifestyle migration
postcolonial
residential tourism

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Geography, Planning and Development

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