International Residential Mobilities: From Lifestyle Migrations to Tourism Gentrification [Hardcover]

This book assesses the drivers and impacts of new international residential mobilities by considering a range of mobilities in different countries across the globe from investment, amenity and retirement mobilities to those of the new global middle class and the transnational elites. It examines the intersection of these mobilities with the increase in the volume of global tourism, the advent of the sharing economy and peer-to-peer platforms, and the effects of transnational property investment. The consequent transformations are considered in urban environments where tourism pressure coexists with gentrification, increasing house prices and processes of social and ethnic segregation. By offering a broad perspective based on different case studies, the book portrays the contradictory consequences of international residential mobilities both favouring local opportunities for development and disrupting housing markets through the disassociation from local demand. As a result this bookis a great resource for academics and students in tourism, urban and migration studies as well as policy-makers and practitioners involved in urban planning, social affairs and tourism management.

Part I:  Theoretical Approaches.- Chapter 1. A Global Sociology on Lifestyle Migrations.- Chapter 2. Overseas Investment and the Real Estate Market: Global and Local Frictions and the Great Acceleration.- Part II: Global Processes of Multi-residence and Local Impacts.- Chapter 3. The Sea as a Lifestyle: (Im)mobilities, Liminality,  and Life Course Transitions Among Permanently  Settled Sailors in the Azores (Portugal).- Chapter 4. The Reconfiguration of International Residential Mobility Flows in Post-crisis Spain:  The Case of Costa Blanca-Alicante.- Chapter 5. Global Mobility and Migration in the Cities of the Patagonian Andes: Emerging Diversity.- Chapter 6. International Mobility: An Approach to the Imaginaries of ResidlS.