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Continue reading →: Interdisciplinarity versus structure and agency?
I have just applied to attend a research development workshop organized by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. They call it a Funding opportunity of particular interest to those working on loneliness, isolation, exclusion, alienation, marginalization, discrimination, conflict and extremism and low levels of civic participation and/or engagement This sounds…
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Continue reading →: Lifestyle Migration and Liminality
I haven’t written in here for a while as I’ve been preparing lectures and tutorials, teaching, supervising dissertation and PhD students, and generally coping with term-time. Kate and I have submitted a draft paper to a journal, based on the RGS conference mentioned below. And I have been thinking about…
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Continue reading →: RGS Conference Paper
Governing Lifestyle Migration in East Asia: The Promotion and Regulation of Western Migration in Thailand and Malaysia Kate Botterill and Karen O’Reilly As an introduction to the session on Lifestyle Migration and the state this paper considers how lifestyle migration, as Caroline Oliver (2012) suggests ‘occupies a place at the…
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Continue reading →: Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference, London 2013
Kate Botterill and I gave a paper at the Royal Geographical Society Conference last week. I have pasted the title and abstract as an aside. The whole session went very well. Indeed it was great to see almost an entire day in the programme given over to the study of…
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Continue reading →: Summer School in Lugano
The Swiss Summer School this year was amazing! The students were so keen, hard-working and creative. One group did a mini ethnography of Lugano’s Park and Read summer event; another spent some time in a roof-top Yoga Centre; some studied the summer school itself (and how experiences compared with expectations);…
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Continue reading →: Santa at Easter and talking about migration
I have been keynote speaker at a fascinating conference on Labour Mobility in the European North, at the University of Lapland (in Rovaniemi). It was an International conference and we had talks on (among other migrations) Thai Berry Pickers in Norway and Finland, farm workers in Norway, and even backpackers…
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Continue reading →: Ageing abroad
At the British Sociological Association Annual Conference (3-5 April 2013, London), I presented a paper with some of the findings from the Lifestyle Migration in East Asia project. I talked about how older British emigrants think about older age and how they will cope with that so far from ‘home’.…
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Continue reading →: The Great British Class Survey
The Great British Class Survey published their results just in time for the British Sociological Association Conference. The news coverage was amazing and the survey is a great success. But I wonder how the new seven classes map onto the already existing NS-SEC- which I was intrigued to note Savage and Devine used…
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Continue reading →: The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration
The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration is published. It is an amazing resource, providing ‘a complete exploration of the prominent themes, events, and theoretical underpinnings of the movements of human populations from prehistory to the present day. It includes thematic interpretations and theories of migration, as well as the significant…
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