Living with Change Among a Transient Population

Narratives and Practices of Collective Belonging among Swedish Migrants on the Costa del Sol in Spain1

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2436613
AutoresAnnie Woube (0000-0002-6888-3052, Uppsala University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen7
Número3
Páginas148-155
Fecha de publicación2017-09-26
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaNordic Journal of Migration Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1799-649X • E-ISSN: 1799-649X
EditorialHelsinki University Press (PUBLISHER • FI)
DOI10.1515/njmr-2017-0024
OpenAlexW2753236018
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas20

The article explores how the Swedish migrants narrate and practice collective belonging as strategies to handle life in a region characterised by a transient and circulating population on the Costa del Sol, Spain. It is based on an ethnographic research within the Swedish infrastructure of organizations, institutions, and private enterprises, in addition to interviews with Swedish migrants who are registered residents and live on a permanent basis along the Spanish southern coast. The wider analytical framework consists of theories of diaspora, transnationality and identification. The article shows how the Swedish migrants are engaged in diasporic and transnational practices, and highlights how they value and attribute meanings to such practices. It also illuminates how internal divisions within the Swedish population are shaped through identification in narrations

Diaspora · Ethnography · Ethnology · Geography · Narrative · Political science · Population · Sociology · Transnationality · Anthropology · Demography · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies