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ID56589
NAMEM Benson
GIVEN NAMESM
FAMILY NAMEBenson
SIGNATUREBENSON M
AFFILIATIONSGoldsmiths University of London
ORCID0000-0003-0400-5741
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS81
TOTAL CITATIONS1065
AUTHOR COUNT81
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX16
  • The social production of small urban rivers: The (re)making of two riverside spaces in Lewisham

    Open Access•M Benson, Emma Jackson et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology•2026

    This article analyses how small urban rivers are implicated in different registers of place-making in Lewisham, London. We discuss the pleasures, possibilities and tensions that come with ‘opening up’ urban river spaces and the complex range of imaginaries and practices that feed into their production. Using a combination of archival research alongside qualitative methods, we set out how river spaces are produced by informal and formal practices …

  • The Unloved Curriculum: Teaching Research Methods and ‘Demonstrably Alive’ Sociology

    Open Access•L Back, M Benson et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology•2025•References: 23

    This article reflects our experiences of developing a more sociable approach to teaching qualitative methods. Through a set of examples drawn from our teaching practice, from our shared development of a sociable qualitative methods curriculum for MA students to the production of the Fieldwork Fables films, we explore these possibilities practically through their use in teaching contexts as a way of fostering a ‘demonstrably alive’ sociological cr…

  • Brexit and the Emergence of a Transnational European Community of Practice: From Grassroots Mobilisations to Supranational Political Opportunity Structures in the Struggle for Citizens' Rights

    Open Access•M Benson, Catherine Ruth Craven et al.•ARTICLE•JCMS Journal of Common Market…•2025•References: 8

    Brexit ignited an unprecedented sense of shared European identity and belonging, catalysing pro‐EU social movements among EU nationals in the United Kingdom and amongst British citizens residing in the EU and leading to the formation of a transnational European community of practice. This mobilisation coalesced around grassroots organisations whose claim‐making strategy was rooted in the institution of EU citizenship, which also grounded their le…

  • Revisiting Formations of Class and Gender, 25 years on: A conversation with Beverley Skeggs

    Open Access•Chantelle Lewis, M Benson et al.•ARTICLE•The Sociological Review•2025•References: 19

    This interview, sees Chantelle Lewis and Michaela Benson in conversation with Bev Skeggs as she reflects on her landmark book Formations of Class and Gender (1997). Twenty-five years on from its publication, we speak about the women and the empirical research at the heart of book; its central arguments, contributions to a range of fields, and its location in the longer trajectory of Bev's intellectual project; the importance of listening as a rou…

  • Methods was always a place where sociology happens: Revisiting Live Methods with Les Back and Nirmal Puwar

    Open Access•M Benson, Emma Jackson et al.•ARTICLE•The Sociological Review•2025•Cited by: 1•References: 14

    The first question takes us back to the very beginning, what was the impetus to write Live Methods (Back & Puwar, 2012b)?What was it responding to?And what was it bringing together?Nirmal Puwar: I think there were different streams to it.I think the spirit is important, to recognise what was around us and what we were trying to mobilise.I have to say it wasn't just us two.We riffed on the collective spirit within Goldsmiths Sociology, and across …

  • Special Section: Formations of Class and Gender, 25 (or so) years on

    Open Access•M Benson•ARTICLE•The Sociological Review•2025•References: 3

    This article introduces the Special Section Revisiting Formations of Class and Gender (Skeggs 1997). It considers the legacy and continuing influence of this landmark work on scholarship around the world and across a wide range of disciplines, including media and cultural studies, human geography and social anthropology alongside sociology. Further, it celebrates the work of someone who has been instrumental to making The Sociological Review what…

  • Raising concerns on the dangers of linking biological invasions to human migration

    Open Access•Roxana Barbulescu, Josie South et al.•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2025•References: 15

  • Fireside Chat: Getting the sociological imagination on the A-level curriculum

    Open Access•Tom Genillard, Ruth Shaw et al.•ARTICLE•The Sociological Review Magazine•2024

    What is a Subject Advisor and what do they do?" Provides advice & guidance on the delivery and assessment of our qualifications " Supports centres via a range of methods including

  • Voice, with Claire Alexander, Dan McCulloch and Belinda Scarlett

    Open Access•C Alexander, Daniel Mcculloch et al.•ARTICLE•The Sociological Review Magazine•2024

  • The Sociological Review Foundation Public Lecture 2024: Jackie Kay: May Day: Sociology and poetry, politics, love and loss

    Open Access•Jackie Kay, M Benson et al.•ARTICLE•The Sociological Review Magazine•2024

  • Closing Remarks

    Open Access•Carin Runciman, Attila Szántó et al.•ARTICLE•The Sociological Review Magazine•2024

  • Opening Plenary: Undisciplining II and the Sociological Review Foundation

    Open Access•Rosemary Deem, M Benson et al.•ARTICLE•The Sociological Review Magazine•2024

  • Class and Everyday Life: Meet the author

    Open Access•Kirsteen Paton, Carin Runciman et al.•ARTICLE•The Sociological Review Magazine•2024

  • Reimagining, Repositioning, Rebordering: Intersections of the Biopolitical and Geopolitical in the UK's Post-Brexit Migration Regime (and Why It Matters for Migration Research)

    Open Access•M Benson, N Sigona•ARTICLE•International Migration Review•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 47

    This article examines the emergence of a new immigration regime in the United Kingdom, following its exit from the European Union, to uncover the entanglements and intersections of biopolitics, geopolitics and ideology in migration and migration governance. It draws a clear line between Brexit as a political and geopolitical rupture, the ideological project of “Global Britain” that emerged from it, and the forms of migrant and citizen subjectivit…

  • The UK 's ‘Safe and Legal’ Humanitarian Routes: From Colonial Ties to Privatising Protection

    Open Access•M Benson, Nando Sigona et al.•ARTICLE•The Political Quarterly•2024•Cited by: 4

    In this article, the UK's ‘safe and legal (humanitarian) routes’ are evaluated by examining how they are positioned in the post‐Brexit migration regime, and how these domestic provisions compare to those underwritten by international protections. The Hong Kong British Nationals (Overseas)—HK BN(O)s—and Ukraine visa schemes are an area of focus which, combined, account for the vast majority of those arriving in the UK for the purposes of humanitar…

  • Brexit Rebordering, Sticky Relationships and the Production of Mixed-Status Families

    Open Access•E Zambelli, M Benson et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology•2024•Cited by: 5•References: 37

    This article examines the Brexit-driven remaking of some EU families into mixed-status families. Drawing on original research conducted in 2021-2022 with British, EU/EEA and non-EU/EEA citizens living in the UK or the EU/EEA, it shows how families whose members have previously enjoyed equal rights to freedom of movement across the EU/EEA variously negotiate the consequences of Brexit on their lives. Central to our analysis is the interplay betwee…

  • Time to think [Audio podcast episode]

    Open Access•Yasmin Gunaratnam, Suzanne Hall et al.•ARTICLE•The Sociological Review Magazine•2023

    Over the course of this series, we've talked about the importance of education beyond the university.We've taken you to a public park, a cathedral, an art gallery, a library, a living room, a laundromat and to the streets.But universities do matter, as institutions and as places.In our final episode, we visit two -Goldsmiths, University of London, and Bard College Berlinand listen to conversations taking place in-and outside their lecture halls.F…

  • Why Stigma? With Michaela Benson [Audio podcast episode]

    Open Access•I Tyler, M Benson•ARTICLE•The Sociological Review Magazine•2023

    What’s missing from mainstream thinking on stigma? Activist scholar Imogen Tyler tells her friend and fellow sociologist Michaela Benson how her thinking on stigma has grown - and why it speaks to urgent issues of poverty, racism, migration and the growing “war on woke”

  • Global Social Inequalities and the Coloniality of Citizenship, Past and Present: A Conversation Between Manuela Boatcă and Michaela Benson

    Open Access•M Benson, Manuela Boatcă•ARTICLE•Migration and Society•2023

    This conversation between Michaela Benson and Manuela Boatcă focuses on the coloniality of citizenship. Where dominant understandings of citizenship link this to the emergence of the nation and its national political community, this conversation considers what we can learn about present-day global social inequalities from examining the development of citizenship through a close consideration of Manuela's work on this topic. It takes as its starti…

  • Public Sociology, with Gary Younge, Chantelle Lewis, Cecilia Menjívar & Michaela Benson

    Open Access•Gary Younge, Chantelle Lewis et al.•ARTICLE•The Sociological Review Magazine•2023•Cited by: 1•References: 2

    What is public sociology and why does it matter more than ever

  • How do protest and resistance make citizens and citizenship? An interview with Engin Isin

    M Benson•ARTICLE•Citizenship Studies•2023•Cited by: 1•References: 4

    This interview was originally conducted in March 2021 for Who do we think we are? (2021), a podcast series I host, discussing urgent questions of citizenship and migration in Britain today. At the heart of the series is a commitment to showcasing social science knowledge and understanding to demonstrate how these might challenge public and political understandings of Britishness and belonging and offer alternatives ways of thinking about a range …

  • Hong Kongers and the coloniality of British citizenship from decolonisation to 'Global Britain

    Open Access•M Benson•ARTICLE•Current Sociology•2023•Cited by: 16•References: 21

    In this article, the author advances understandings of the coloniality of British citizenship through the close examination of the status of the people of Hong Kong in Britain's immigration and nationality legislation. This is a case that has been overlooked in most social scientific analysis of Britain's citizenship-migration nexus. The article responds to Gurminder Bhambra's call to recognise the connected sociologies and histories of citizensh…

  • Wading into research: Thinking with and in the river Quaggy

    Open Access•Louise Rondel, M Benson et al.•ARTICLE•The Sociological Review Magazine•2022

  • Introduction to June’s Theme [Online]

    Open Access•M Benson, Emma Jackson et al.•ARTICLE•The Sociological Review Magazine•2022

  • Game Over: How closing leisure sites closed down our social worlds, too

    Open Access•M Benson, Emma Jackson et al.•ARTICLE•The Sociological Review Magazine•2022

    From bowling alleys to bars, leisure venues are places where casual but important human interaction goes on. During COVID-19, say Talja Blokland and Emma Jackson, the importance of our 'trivial’ activities became unexpectedly clear

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  • Migration and the Search for a Better Way of Life: A Critical Exploration of Lifestyle Migration

    Open Access•M Benson, Kathleen O’reilly et al.•ARTICLE•The Sociological Review•2009•Cited by: 451•References: 36

    For the past few years, the term 'lifestyle migration' has been used to refer to an increasing number of people who take the decision to migrate based on their belief that there is a more fulfilling way of life available to them elsewhere. Lifestyle migration is thus a growing, disparate phenomenon, with important but little understood implications for both societies and individuals. This article outlines and explores in detail a series of mobili…

  • From lifestyle migration to lifestyle in migration: Categories, concepts and ways of thinking

    M Benson, Kathleen O’reilly et al.•ARTICLE•Migration Studies•2015•Cited by: 81•References: 11

    This article argues that analytical concepts used in migration (and other) research are most effectively employed empirically when their methodological underpinnings, and the nature of their development, are fully understood. Inductively designed conceptual frameworks developed through long-term qualitative research are a useful way of (re)thinking migration that can free researchers from the constraints of externally-imposed frameworks, categori…

  • Brexit, British People of Colour in the EU-27 and everyday racism in Britain and Europe

    Open Access•M Benson, Chantelle Lewis•ARTICLE•Ethnic and Racial Studies•2019•Cited by: 53•References: 47

    This paper foregrounds an understanding of Brexit as unexceptional, as business as usual in Britain and Europe. It reports on original empirical research with British People of Colour who have settled elsewhere in Europe, to bring into view an original perspective to understandings of what Brexit means to Britons living in Europe, and to consider what these testimonies offer to emerging social science research on Brexit. As we argue, focussing on…

  • Postcoloniality and Privilege in New Lifestyle Flows: The Case of North Americans in Panama

    M Benson, Michaela Caroline Benson•ARTICLE•Mobilities•2013•Cited by: 44•References: 23

    This article argues for an approach to understanding new lifestyle flows that acknowledges the roles of postcoloniality and privilege in facilitating migration and framing cultural politics on the ground within destinations. Through the deconstruction of postcoloniality and privilege, this article demonstrates the pervasiveness and persistence of these structural and systemic conditions. It illustrates this argument by drawing on the ethnographic…

  • Place-making and Place Maintenance: Performativity, Place and Belonging among the Middle Classes

    Open Access•M Benson, Emma Jackson•ARTICLE•Sociology•2013•Cited by: 43•References: 19

    This article introduces performativity and processes of place-making into discussions about middle-class residents' place attachments. It draws on interviews with middle-class residents in two different London neighbourhoods, Peckham (inner urban, socially mixed) and West Horsley and Effingham (commuter belt villages), to argue that (1) the practice of place is key to understanding middle-class claims to belonging; and (2) ways of 'doing' neighbo…

  • Neither 'Deepest, Darkest Peckham' nor 'Run-of-the-Mill' East Dulwich: The Middle Classes and their 'Others' in an Inner-London Neighbourhood

    Open Access•Emma Jackson, M Benson•ARTICLE•International Journal of Urban…•2014•Cited by: 34•References: 25

    This article examines how middle-class residents of an inner-London neighbourhood draw up socio-spatial and symbolic boundaries between themselves and their 'others'. Through a discussion of accounts of two very different boundaries - the boundary of a multi-ethnic high street and a less clearly defined boundary of a neighbouring middle-class area - we argue that the production of middle-class identities is bound up with processes of disaffiliati…

  • The Context and Trajectory of Lifestyle Migration

    Open Access•M Benson, Michaela Caroline Benson•ARTICLE•European Societies•2009•Cited by: 33•References: 6

    This article focuses on British migration to the Lot, a rural, inland department in the southwest of France. It first emphasizes the diversity among these lifestyle migrants by proposing a typology based on the position migrants occupy in the life course at the time of migration, identifying three different types of Britons living permanently in rural France: the family migrants, retirement migrants, and mid-life migrants. Each group of migrants …

  • Marriage-Related Migration to the UK

    Open Access•Katharine Charsley, Brooke Storer-Church et al.•ARTICLE•International Migration Review•2012•Cited by: 30•References: 10

    Spouses form the largest single category of migrant settlement in the UK, but research and policy making on marriage-related migration to Britain provides incomplete coverage of the phenomenon, having been dominated by a focus on the South Asian populations that are among the largest groups of such migrants. By bringing together immigration statistics with information from academic and third-sector sources, this article attempts to provide a more…

  • How Culturally Significant Imaginings are Translated into Lifestyle Migration

    M Benson•ARTICLE•New Community•2012•Cited by: 29•References: 31

    Through the examination of British migration to rural France, the article explores how imagination is put into practice and aims to determine what it is that makes some individuals act on the basis of these imaginings to improve their quality of life. It becomes clear that, for lifestyle migration to occur and in order to explain the timing of migration, it is necessary to question and consider the other factors—structural, cultural and biographi…

  • The Movement Beyond (Lifestyle) Migration: Mobile Practices and the Constitution of a Better Way of Life

    M Benson•ARTICLE•Mobilities•2011•Cited by: 28•References: 17

    This article revisits my ethnography of the British in rural France to question how mobility in post‐migration life was deemed intrinsic to the better way of life that they sought through their migration. Through the exploration of the migrants’ everyday lives, I reveal that the migrants’ mobile practices and their expectations of mobility contributed towards the perceived success of their new lives and were thus significant to the ongoing proces…

  • Deconstructing belonging in lifestyle migration: Tracking the emotional negotiations of the British in rural France

    Open Access•M Benson•ARTICLE•European Journal of Cultural…•2016•Cited by: 24•References: 14

    This article examines the emotional negotiations that mark the lived experience of Britons residing in rural France – a paradigmatic case of lifestyle migration – to develop a nuanced understanding of how the lifestyle migrant subject is (re)constructed through migration and settlement. In contrast to presentations of these migrations – both by scholars and migrants themselves – as a freely chosen self-realization project, the lens on emotion and…

  • Trajectories of middle-class belonging: The dynamics of place attachment and classed identities

    Open Access•M Benson•ARTICLE•Urban Studies•2014•Cited by: 24•References: 24

    This paper examines the processes by which middle-class belonging is generated, through the exploration of social and spatial trajectories in narratives of residential choice and mobility. It is based on an understanding of residential choice as indicative and constitutive of social mobilities. In particular the paper builds on the discussion of the match between habitus and field that lies at the root of the notions of middle-class belonging and…

  • Fixed in Mobility: Young Homeless People and the City

    Open Access•M Benson, Emma Jackson•ARTICLE•International Journal of Urban…•2012•Cited by: 22•References: 17

    This article argues that although the lives of young homeless people are characterized by high levels of mobility, when examined closely movement is also revealed as heavily restricted. While a network of agencies moves the young people around the city, the official borders of borough councils and the non-official territories of young people feed into an experience of London as a series of exclusionary bounded areas. Within the accounts of the yo…

  • Making the middle classes on shifting ground? Residential status, performativity and middle-class subjectivities in contemporary London

    Open Access•M Benson, Emma Jackson•ARTICLE•British Journal of Sociology•2017•Cited by: 21•References: 22

    This paper argues that shifts in access to housing - both in relation to rental and ownership - disrupt middle-class reproduction in ways that fundamentally influence class formation. While property ownership has had a long association with middle-class identities, status and distinction, an increasingly competitive rental market alongside inflated property prices has impacted on expectations and anxieties over housing futures. In this paper, we …

  • Toward a Critical Sociology of Lifestyle Migration: Reconceptualizing Migration and the Search for a Better Way of Life

    Open Access•M Benson, Nick Osbaldiston•ARTICLE•The Sociological Review•2016•Cited by: 21•References: 46

    This article places under critical and reflexive examination the theoretical underpinnings of the concept of lifestyle migration. Developed to explain the migration of the relatively affluent in search of a better way of life, this concept draws attention to the role of lifestyle within migration, alongside understandings of migration as one stage within the ongoing lifestyle choices and trajectories of individual migrants. Through a focus on two…

  • School Choice in London and Paris – A Comparison of Middle‐class Strategies

    Open Access•M Benson, Gary Bridge et al.•ARTICLE•Social Policy and Administration•2015•Cited by: 18•References: 35

    Education is one major public service in which quasi‐markets and other choice‐based mechanisms are now established methods of delivery. The types of school people choose, and the extent to which their choices are realized, have a fundamental impact on the outcomes of any mechanism of school choice. In this article, we provide a comparative analysis of the school choice strategies of middle‐class families in L ondon and P aris. We draw on approxim…

  • Hong Kongers and the coloniality of British citizenship from decolonisation to 'Global Britain

    Open Access•M Benson•ARTICLE•Current Sociology•2023•Cited by: 16•References: 21

    In this article, the author advances understandings of the coloniality of British citizenship through the close examination of the status of the people of Hong Kong in Britain's immigration and nationality legislation. This is a case that has been overlooked in most social scientific analysis of Britain's citizenship-migration nexus. The article responds to Gurminder Bhambra's call to recognise the connected sociologies and histories of citizensh…

  • Reflexive practice in live sociology: Lessons from researching Brexit in the lives of British citizens living in the EU-27

    Open Access•M Benson, Kathleen O’reilly et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research•2022•Cited by: 14•References: 29

    This paper brings reflexivity into conversation with debates about positionality and live sociology to argue for reflexivity to be reimagined as an enduring practice that is collaborative, responsible, iterative, engaged, agile and creative. We elaborate our argument with reference to examples and contemplations drawn from our experiences researching what Brexit means for Britons living in the EU-27 for the BrExpats research project, which was in…

  • Brexit and the Classed Politics of Bordering: The British in France and European Belongings

    Open Access•M Benson•ARTICLE•Sociology•2020•Cited by: 12•References: 42

    This article considers what Brexit means for British citizens living in France. Drawing on empirical research I examine the emotional and material impacts that uncertainties about their futures have had on their lives. The article documents the measures they take (or anticipate) in their bids to secure their future rights to stay put in France. However, not everyone is well placed to secure their own future. Foregrounding Brexit as bordering – th…

  • Valuing the bowling alley: Contestations over the preservation of spaces of everyday urban multiculture in London

    Open Access•M Benson, Emma Jackson•ARTICLE•The Sociological Review•2019•Cited by: 11•References: 30

    This article builds on 'the convivial, everyday turn' by approaching the workings of complex urban spaces of multiculture as entangled with processes of urban change that are infused with judgements and contestations about what is of value. The article explores the competing value claims made for a leisure space, a London bowling alley, used by a diverse group of people (in terms of dis/ability, ethnicity, gender, class and age) that has been thr…

  • Living the "Real" Dream in la France profonde: Lifestyle Migration, Social Distinction, and the Authenticities of Everyday Life

    M Benson•ARTICLE•Anthropological Quarterly•2013•Cited by: 11

    For the British residents of rural France, the desire for authentic (rural) living underscored the decision to migrate, while through residence they gain more nuanced understandings of authenticity. This article explores the purpose and meaning that these authenticities have for such lifestyle migrants. As the ethnography in this article demonstrates, claims to the authentic are equally claims to distinctiveness, and should thus be read within th…

  • From the state of the art to new directions in researching what Brexit means for migration and migrants

    Open Access•M Benson, Nando Sigona et al.•ARTICLE•Migration Studies•2022•Cited by: 10•References: 13

    What has Brexit meant for migration and migrants? How has the geopolitical repositioning of the UK in consequence of the UK’s exit from the European Union (EU) impacted on the experiences of long-established migrant communities and newly arrived migrants? In what ways are the impacts of Brexit differentially experienced across migrant communities according to, inter alia, class, gender, age, country of origin, disability, and race? How has migrat…

  • Multi-sensory ethnography and vertical urban transformation: Ascending the Peckham Skyline

    M Benson, Emma Jackson et al.•ARTICLE•Social & Cultural Geography•2021•Cited by: 9•References: 39

    In this paper, we offer a conceptual and methodological intervention that demonstrates how multi-sensory ethnography might enrich critical analysis of vertical urban transformation. Through the lens of two sites in Peckham, southeast London—a multi-story car park and an ex-industrial warehouse complex—recently remade as leisure and retail spaces, we examine how processes and practices by which these spaces at height are designed and curated repro…

  • The Structure of the Collocational Dictionary

    M Benson•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•1989•Cited by: 7

    Journal Article The Structure of the Collocational Dictionary Get access M. Benson M. Benson University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Lexicography, Volume 2, Issue 1, spring 1989, Pages 1–14, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/2.1.1 Published: 01 March 1989

  • Brexit Rebordering, Sticky Relationships and the Production of Mixed-Status Families

    Open Access•E Zambelli, M Benson et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology•2024•Cited by: 5•References: 37

    This article examines the Brexit-driven remaking of some EU families into mixed-status families. Drawing on original research conducted in 2021-2022 with British, EU/EEA and non-EU/EEA citizens living in the UK or the EU/EEA, it shows how families whose members have previously enjoyed equal rights to freedom of movement across the EU/EEA variously negotiate the consequences of Brexit on their lives. Central to our analysis is the interplay betwee…

  • The Structure of the Collocational Dictionary

    M Benson•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•1989•Cited by: 7

    Journal Article The Structure of the Collocational Dictionary Get access M. Benson M. Benson University of Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Lexicography, Volume 2, Issue 1, spring 1989, Pages 1–14, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/2.1.1 Published: 01 March 1989

  • Collocations and General-purpose Dictionaries

    M Benson•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•1990•Cited by: 2

    In recent years lexicographers have been devoting increased attention to collocations.1 Heretofore, discussions of collocations have been primarily concerned with the role that they might play in various types of learners' dictionaries. This paper deals with the potential role that collocations can play in general-purpose (GP) dictionaries. It will be shown that while the best GP dictionaries contain many collocations, they all omit a large numbe…

  • Open Space Decisive Blows, Struck Left Handed - the High Horse Talks to Nirmal Puwar

    Open Access•M Benson, Emma Jackson et al.•ARTICLE•Feminist Review•2007

  • Books for Review

    Open Access•M Benson•ARTICLE•Anthropology in Action•2008

    Would you like to get some practice in writing for publication? Would you like a free copy of that interesting new book you really should read? Would writing a review help you to make sure you read it? Anthropology in Action is always happy to hear from potential reviewers at all stages in their academic careers. Reviews are normally short—about 500 words—but a more in-depth review can also be planned if you wish. We currently have a number of bo…

  • Nothing in Return? Distinctions between Gift and Commodity in Contemporary Societies

    Open Access•M Benson, Debra Carter et al.•ARTICLE•Anthropology in Action•2008•Cited by: 2•References: 8

    According to Mauss’ seminal works, it was through obligations laid bare by the gift exchange process—the obligation to give, receive and reciprocate—that pre-modern societies were symbolically reproduced. Mauss’ distinction between those early societies and the encroaching capitalist world has led to questions about whether gift exchange can play a similar role in today’s highly individualised and impersonal contemporary societies. In addition, i…

  • The Context and Trajectory of Lifestyle Migration

    Open Access•M Benson, Michaela Caroline Benson•ARTICLE•European Societies•2009•Cited by: 33•References: 6

    This article focuses on British migration to the Lot, a rural, inland department in the southwest of France. It first emphasizes the diversity among these lifestyle migrants by proposing a typology based on the position migrants occupy in the life course at the time of migration, identifying three different types of Britons living permanently in rural France: the family migrants, retirement migrants, and mid-life migrants. Each group of migrants …

  • Books for Review

    Open Access•M Benson•ARTICLE•Anthropology in Action•2009

    Anthropology in Action is always happy to hear from potential reviewers at all stages in their academic careers. Reviews are normally short – about 500 words – but a more in-depth review can also be planned if you wish. We currently have a number of books awaiting review. If you are interested in reviewing any of the books on the list below, please feel free to get in touch. Alternatively, if there is a particular book you would like us to reques…

  • Migration and the Search for a Better Way of Life: A Critical Exploration of Lifestyle Migration

    Open Access•M Benson, Kathleen O’reilly et al.•ARTICLE•The Sociological Review•2009•Cited by: 451•References: 36

    For the past few years, the term 'lifestyle migration' has been used to refer to an increasing number of people who take the decision to migrate based on their belief that there is a more fulfilling way of life available to them elsewhere. Lifestyle migration is thus a growing, disparate phenomenon, with important but little understood implications for both societies and individuals. This article outlines and explores in detail a series of mobili…

  • QMiP workshop: Writing for publication: New qualitative researchers

    Helen Allen, M Benson et al.•ARTICLE•QMiP Bulletin•2010

  • Books for Review

    Open Access•M Benson•ARTICLE•Anthropology in Action•2010

    Anthropology in Action is always happy to hear from potential reviewers at all stages in their academic careers. Reviews are normally short – about 500 words – but a more in-depth review can also be planned if you wish. We currently have a number of books awaiting review. If you are interested in reviewing any of the books on the list below, please feel free to get in touch. Alternatively, if there is a particular book you would like us to reques…

  • Books for Review

    Open Access•M Benson•ARTICLE•Anthropology in Action•2010

  • Landscape, Imagination and Experience: Processes of Emplacement among the British in Rural France

    Open Access•M Benson•ARTICLE•The Sociological Review•2010•Cited by: 2•References: 11

    This paper traces the process by which the British residents of the Lot, a department in rural France, develop a deeper understanding of their new surroundings. While their initial perceptions of the landscape as providing a beautiful view and a backdrop to their everyday lives prompted their migration, once they are living in the French countryside these perceptions subtly change in response to their experiences of life there. As I argue, it is …

  • Books for Review

    Open Access•M Benson•ARTICLE•Anthropology in Action•2011

    Anthropology in Action is always happy to hear from potential reviewers at all stages in their academic careers. We welcome reviews of around 500 words for a single book, but we are also keen to include reviews comparing two or more works, for which the word length is negotiable. We currently have a number of books awaiting review. If you are interested in reviewing any of the books on the list below, please contact the reviews editor, Michaela B…

  • Books for Review

    Open Access•M Benson•ARTICLE•Anthropology in Action•2011

    Anthropology in Action is always happy to hear from potential reviewers at all stages in their academic careers. Reviews are normally short – about 500 words – but a more in-depth review can also be planned if you wish. We currently have a number of books awaiting review. If you are interested in reviewing any of the books on the list below, please feel free to get in touch. Alternatively, if there is a particular book you would like us to reques…

  • The British in rural France: Lifestyle Migration and the Ongoing Quest for a Better Way of Life

    M Benson, Michaela Caroline Benson•BOOK•The British in rural France•2011

    "The British in Rural France is a study of how lifestyle choices intersect with migration, and how this relationship frames and shapes post-migration lives. It presents a conceptual framework for understanding post-migration lives that incorporates culturally-specific imaginings, lived experiences, individual life histories, and personal circumstances. Through an ethnographic lens incorporating in-depth interviews, participant observation, life a…

  • Visual Methods and Psychology

    Simon P Hammond, M Benson et al.•ARTICLE•QMiP Bulletin•2011

  • The Movement Beyond (Lifestyle) Migration: Mobile Practices and the Constitution of a Better Way of Life

    M Benson•ARTICLE•Mobilities•2011•Cited by: 28•References: 17

    This article revisits my ethnography of the British in rural France to question how mobility in post‐migration life was deemed intrinsic to the better way of life that they sought through their migration. Through the exploration of the migrants’ everyday lives, I reveal that the migrants’ mobile practices and their expectations of mobility contributed towards the perceived success of their new lives and were thus significant to the ongoing proces…

  • Books for Review

    Open Access•M Benson, Jennie Morgan et al.•ARTICLE•Anthropology in Action•2012

    The current list of books for review includes some of the most exciting new books in applied anthropology to be published this year. Please take a close look and if there is anything that you particularly want to review, let us know!

  • Books for Review

    Open Access•M Benson•ARTICLE•Anthropology in Action•2012

    Anthropology in Action is always happy to hear from potential reviewers at all stages in their academic careers. We welcome reviews of around 500 words for a single book, but we are also keen to include reviews comparing two or more works, for which the word length is negotiable. We currently have a number of books awaiting review. If you are interested in reviewing any of the books on the list below, please contact the reviews editor, Michaela B…

  • Marriage-Related Migration to the UK

    Open Access•Katharine Charsley, Brooke Storer-Church et al.•ARTICLE•International Migration Review•2012•Cited by: 30•References: 10

    Spouses form the largest single category of migrant settlement in the UK, but research and policy making on marriage-related migration to Britain provides incomplete coverage of the phenomenon, having been dominated by a focus on the South Asian populations that are among the largest groups of such migrants. By bringing together immigration statistics with information from academic and third-sector sources, this article attempts to provide a more…

  • Fixed in Mobility: Young Homeless People and the City

    Open Access•M Benson, Emma Jackson•ARTICLE•International Journal of Urban…•2012•Cited by: 22•References: 17

    This article argues that although the lives of young homeless people are characterized by high levels of mobility, when examined closely movement is also revealed as heavily restricted. While a network of agencies moves the young people around the city, the official borders of borough councils and the non-official territories of young people feed into an experience of London as a series of exclusionary bounded areas. Within the accounts of the yo…

  • How Culturally Significant Imaginings are Translated into Lifestyle Migration

    M Benson•ARTICLE•New Community•2012•Cited by: 29•References: 31

    Through the examination of British migration to rural France, the article explores how imagination is put into practice and aims to determine what it is that makes some individuals act on the basis of these imaginings to improve their quality of life. It becomes clear that, for lifestyle migration to occur and in order to explain the timing of migration, it is necessary to question and consider the other factors—structural, cultural and biographi…

  • The British in rural France: Lifestyle Migration and the Ongoing Quest for a Better Way of Life

    M Benson, Alexander Smith-undifferentiated•BOOK•The British in rural France•2013

    This is a study of how lifestyle choices intersect with migration, and how this relationship frames and shapes post-migration lives. It presents a conceptual framework for understanding post-migration lives that incorporates culturally specific imaginings, lived experiences, individual life histories, and personal circumstances. Through an ethnographic lens incorporating in-depth interviews, participant observation, life and migration histories, …

  • Books for Review

    Open Access•M Benson, Jennie Morgan et al.•ARTICLE•Anthropology in Action•2013

    The current list of books for review includes some of the most exciting new books in applied anthropology to be published this year. Please take a close look and if there is anything that you particularly want to review, let us know

  • Postcoloniality and Privilege in New Lifestyle Flows: The Case of North Americans in Panama

    M Benson, Michaela Caroline Benson•ARTICLE•Mobilities•2013•Cited by: 44•References: 23

    This article argues for an approach to understanding new lifestyle flows that acknowledges the roles of postcoloniality and privilege in facilitating migration and framing cultural politics on the ground within destinations. Through the deconstruction of postcoloniality and privilege, this article demonstrates the pervasiveness and persistence of these structural and systemic conditions. It illustrates this argument by drawing on the ethnographic…

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