ISBN:
9780367651725
Language:
English
Pages:
pages cm
Series Statement:
Global gender
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Dixon, Laura (Tourism scholar) Gender, sexuality and national identity in the lives of British lifestyle migrants in Spain
DDC:
306.09467
Keywords:
Cosmopolitanism
;
British Social conditions
;
Immigrants Social conditions
;
Place marketing
;
Group identity
;
Sex role
;
Nationalism
;
Sitges (Spain) Social conditions 21st century
Abstract:
"This book takes an intimate look at the lives of British migrants in Sitges, an affluent coastal tourist town in Northern Spain and investigates ideas of gender, sexuality and national identity as they are brought to life through the voices of British lifestyle migrants. Situating Sitges as a specifically affluent and 'middle-class' location representing a particular form of lifestyle immigration, this rich and detailed study explores how the experiences of British migrants re-inscribe culturally specific understandings of the relationship between space, place, culture and identity. What ultimately emerges is an account of the complex structural constraints of identity, as British migrants find themselves stuck within the stereotype of badly-behaved Brits Abroad and entangled in highly conservative conceptualisations of gender and sexuality, that leave them unable to live the kind of cosmopolitan lifestyles that they so purposefully sought. This is a fascinating study suitable for researchers in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Tourism, Sociology and Anthropology"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
