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A study of how lifestyle choices intersect with migration, and how this relationship frames and shapes post-migration lives. -- .

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I warmly recommend this book to those interested in issues of migration, lifestyle and mobility. Its accessible writing style and the multiple examples make it a good read for scholars, students and the broader public wanting to know what the life of British migrants in rural France 'really' looks like. -- .

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
Part I: Imagination, migration and post-migration lives
2. Explaining migration
3. Negotiating locality
4. A (persistent) state of uncertainty
5. Life in a postcard
Part II: Distinction, identity and the ongoing Search for a better way of life
6. At home in the lot
7. The unexceptional lives of others
8. En route to authentic living
9. Conclusion
10. Bibliography
Index

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 4/30/2014 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719095542, 978-0719095542
      ISBN10: 0719095549

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A study of how lifestyle choices intersect with migration, and how this relationship frames and shapes post-migration lives. -- .

      Trade Review
      I warmly recommend this book to those interested in issues of migration, lifestyle and mobility. Its accessible writing style and the multiple examples make it a good read for scholars, students and the broader public wanting to know what the life of British migrants in rural France 'really' looks like. -- .

      Table of Contents

      1. Introduction
      Part I: Imagination, migration and post-migration lives
      2. Explaining migration
      3. Negotiating locality
      4. A (persistent) state of uncertainty
      5. Life in a postcard
      Part II: Distinction, identity and the ongoing Search for a better way of life
      6. At home in the lot
      7. The unexceptional lives of others
      8. En route to authentic living
      9. Conclusion
      10. Bibliography
      Index

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