Relatively affluent individuals from various corners of the globe are increasingly choosing to migrate, spurred on by the promise of a better and more fulfilling way of life within their destination. Through rich empirical case studies this volume addresses this important and increasingly common form of migration in a manner that will interest scholars of mobility, migration, lifestyle and culture across the social sciences.

Chapter 1 Lifestyle Migration, Karen O'Reilly, Michaela Benson; Chapter 2 When a Trip to Adulthood becomes a Lifestyle, Mari Korpela; Chapter 3 Pursuing the Good Life, Brian A. Hoey; Chapter 4 Romance Tourists, Foreign Wives or Retirement Migrants? Cross-cultural Marriage in Florence, Italy, Catherine Trundle; Chapter 5 Your Home in Spain, Per Gustafson; Chapter 6 Social Capital in the Sun, Maria Angeles Casado-Diaz; Chapter 7 The Children of the Hunters, Karen O'Reilly; Chapter 8 A Desire for Difference, Michaela Benson; Chapter 9 Taking the Risk, Ozlem Nudrali, Karen O'Reilly; Chapter 10 Lifestyle Afterthoughts, Jacqueline Waldren;

Michaela Benson is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK and Karen O' Reilly is Reader in Sociology at Loughborough University, UK