This is an indicative list and may not be exhaustive or up to date
Take a look at my padlet for some links: https://padlet.com/k_oreilly
Books
O’Reilly, K (2025) Qualitative Research Methods for Everyone: An Essential Toolkit, Policy Press
Benson, M and O’Reilly, K (2018) ‘ Lifestyle Migration and Colonial Traces in Malaysia and Panama’ Palgrave.
2012 International Migration and Social Theory, Houndmills: Palgrave
2012 Ethnographic Methods. 2nd ed. London: Routledge
2009 Key Concepts in Ethnography. London: Sage
2005 Ethnographic Methods. London: Routledge
2005 The NS-SEC: origins, development and use. London and New York: Office for National Statistics and Economic and Social Research Council. (with David Rose and David J. Pevalin)
2000 The British on the Costa del Sol. London: Routledge
Edited Collections
Johan Fredrik Rye and Karen O’Reilly (eds) (2020) International Labour Migration to Europe’s Rural Regions. Routledge
2009. Lifestyle Migration. Expectations, Aspirations and Experiences, Ashgate. (with M. Benson. Eds)
1997 Constructing Classes: Towards a New Social Classification for the UK, Swindon: ESRC/ONS (with David Rose, Eds)
Academic Articles
Benson, M. and O’Reilly, K. (2020) Reflexive Practice in Live Sociology: Lessons fromresearching Brexit in the lives of British Citizens living in the EU-27, Qualitative Research
Stones, R. Botterill, K, Lee, M. and O’Reilly, K. One World Is Not Enough: The Structured Phenomenology of Lifestyle Migrants in East Asia, British Journal of Sociology, (DOI) – 10.1111/1468-4446.12357, Published ‘early view’ 26th Feb 2018. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-4446.12357
2017. O’Reilly, K. The British on the Costa Del Sol Twenty Years On: A story of liquids and sediments. Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 7(3), 139–147. Open access http://doi.org/10.1515/njmr-2017-0017
2017. Olsson, E., & O’Reilly, K. North-Europeans in Spain: Practices of Community in the Context of Migration, Mobility and Transnationalism. Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 7(3), 133–138. Open access http://doi.org/10.1515/njmr-2017-0025
2015. From lifestyle migration to lifestyle in migration: Categories, concepts and ways of thinking, Migration Studies 2015; doi: 10.1093/migration/mnv015 (with M.Benson), 4(1): 20-37
2012 Ethnographic returning, qualitative longitudinal research and the reflexive analysis of social practice, Sociological Review (60): 518-36
2010. A Bourdieusian Analysis of Class and Migration: habitus and the individualising process. Sociology, 44(1): 49-66 (with C. Oliver)
2010. No Place Called Home: The Causes and Social Consequences of the UK Housing ‘Bubble’ British Journal of Sociology, 61(2): pp231-255 (with J. Bone)
2009. ‘For interdisciplinarity and a disciplined, professional sociology’, Innovation. The European Journal of Social Science Research. 22(2): 219-23
2009. Migration and the search for a better way of life: a critical exploration of lifestyle migration, Sociological Review, 57(4): 608-625 (With M. Benson)
2007, ‘Intra-European Migration and the mobility-enclosure dialectic’, Sociology, 41(2):277-293
2004 ‘The construction of Heimat under conditions of individualised modernity: Swiss and British elderly migrants in Spain’, Ageing and Society. 24(3) 327-352 (with A. Huber)
2003 When is a tourist? The Articulation of Tourism and Migration in Spain’s Costa del Sol. Tourist Studies, 3(3): 301-317
2002 ‘Britain in Europe/The British in Spain. Exploring Britain’s changing relationship to the other’. Nations and Nationalism, Vol 8(2) 179-194
Chapters in Books
O’Reilly, K. Lifestyle Migration. Focus Migration Policy Briefs. http://www.bpb.de/gesellschaft/migration/kurzdossiers/198254/lifestyle-migration
O’Reilly, K. 2015. ‘Chapter 1. Migration Theories: a Critical Overview’, in A. Triandafyllidou (ed) Routledge Handbook of Immigration and Refugee Studies. London: Routledge (extended, 5000 word entry)
O’Reilly, K. 2014. ‘The role of the social imaginary in lifestyle migration: employing the ontology of practice theory’ Understanding Lifestyle Migration. Basingstoke: Palgrave
O’Reilly, K., Stones, R. and Botterill, K. (2104) ‘Lifestyle migration in East Asia: Integrating ethnographic methodology and practice theory’ in Sage Research Methods Cases, Sage Publications Ltd, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/978144627305013509192
O’Reilly, K. 2015. Ethnography: Telling Practice Stories, in Robert A. Scott and Stephen M. Kosslyn (eds) Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Interdisciplinary, Searchable, and Linkable Resource, DOI: 10.1002/9781118900772.etrds0120
O’Reilly, K. and M. Benson. 2015. ‘Lifestyle Migration’, in Twigg, J. And Martin, W.(eds) Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology, Routledge, pp.420-7
- ‘Children’s moving stories: how the children of British lifestyle migrants cope with super-diversity’ in Jackie Waldren and Ignacy-Marek Kaminski (eds) Learning from the children: culture and identity in a changing world, Oxford: Berghahn Books
2010 ‘Invoking a community of engagement: mobility and place in a small English town’ in C. Trundle and B. Bonisch-Brednich, (eds) Local Lives. Migration and the Politics of Place, Ashgate
2012. ‘Children’s moving stories: how the children of British lifestyle migrants cope with super-diversity’ in Jackie Waldren and Ignacy-Marek Kaminski (eds) Learning from the children: culture and identity in a changing world, Oxford: Berghahn Books
2009. ‘Lifestyle Migration: Escaping to the Good Life?’ in M. Benson and O’Reilly (eds) Lifestyle Migration. Expectations, Aspirations and Experiences, Farnham: Ashgate
2009. ‘Taking the risk: the British in Didim, Turkey’ in M. Benson and O’Reilly (eds) Lifestyle Migration. Expectations, Aspirations and Experiences, Farnham: Ashgate. (with O. Nudrali)
2009. ‘The children of the hunters: Self-realisation projects and class reproduction’ in M. Benson and O’Reilly (eds) Lifestyle Migration. Expectations, Aspirations and Experiences, Farnham: Ashgate.
2009. ‘The unequal effects of the globalisation of migration in the context of new forms of mobility’, (in Spanish) in K. Schriewer and M. G. Jimenez (eds) . Ni turistas ni migrantes. Murcia: Ediciones Isabor
2009. ‘Intra-European migration and social cohesion: The extent and nature of integration of British migrants in Spain’ (In Spanish) In T. Mazón, R. Huete, and A. Mantecón. Turismo, urbanisación y estilos de vida, Barcelona: Icaria (Spain’s leading social science publisher)
2009. Hosts and Guests, Guests and Hosts: British residential tourism in the Costa del Sol, in Obrador Pons, P., Travlou, P. and Crang, M. eds. 2008 Cultures of Mass Tourism: Doing the Mediterranean in the age of banal mobilities. Farnham: Ashgate
2007 ‘Emerging Tourism Futures: Residential Tourism and Its Implications’ in C. Geoffroy and R. Sibley (eds), Going Abroad: Travel, Tourism, and Migration, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
2001‘Blackpool in the sun: images of the British on the Costa del Sol’. In R. King and N. Woods, (eds) Media and Migration, London: Routledge
2000 ‘Trading Intimacy for Liberty: British women on the Costa del Sol’ in Anthias, F. and Lazaridis, G.(eds) Gender and Migration in Southern Europe, Oxford: Berg
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