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Continue reading →: A bit of shameless self promotion
Karen O’Reilly wins Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award for International Migration and Social Theory. Outstanding Academic Titles are selected by the editorial staff of Choice (American Library Association), a critical reviews resource relied on by academic librarians for collection decisions. Appearing annually in Choice‘s January issue this prestigious list of publications…
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Continue reading →: Lifestyle Migration in East Asia
We have finished all data collection for the Lifestyle Migration in East Asia project. You can read all updates on that blog, here
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Continue reading →: Hong Kong
In June, I visited City University Hong Kong, Department of Applied Social Sciences. I was very impressed with the ways in which they relate sociological theory to real world setting and problems. Their students really understand the applied nature of social science. I came back with some exciting ideas of…
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Continue reading →: Precarious working tourists.
Friday May 9th, I was opponent in the public examination of the doctoral dissertation of Christopher Brennan, at the University of Tampere, Finland.The thesis was about working holiday-makers (not backpackers!) in Australia. It took a critical perspective, investigating the experiences and the exploitation of these workers and their contribution to…
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Continue reading →: Inaugural Lecture
Last week I gave my Inaugural lecture at Loughborough University (two years late). I think it went well and, despite the nerves, I quite enjoyed it. I tried to cover the history of my career while highlighting key contributions but it is not easy to do that in under an…
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Continue reading →: Listen to Karen O’Reilly talking about Bourdieu, lifestyle migration and practice stories
Originally posted on The Lifestyle Migration Hub Blog: By Michaela Benson Last week, Karen and I attended that British Sociological Association’s Bourdieu study group event, ‘Bourdieu in migration, ‘race’ and ethnicity studies’. Karen gave one of the keynotes, drawing on her co-authored (with Caroline Oliver) article, A Bourdieusian analysis of class…
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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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