Exploring emotional reflexivity in British lifestyle migration to Australia

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ID12788587
AuthorsNick Osbaldiston (0000-0003-0158-1903, James Cook University, corresponding author), Felicity Picken (0000-0001-6717-5145, Western Sydney University), L Denny (0000-0001-9842-1556, University of Tasmania)
Year2020
Volume26
Issue5
Publication date2020-03-06
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePopulation Space and Place (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1544-8444 • E-ISSN: 1544-8452
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/psp.2328
OpenAlexW3009330906
LanguageEN
Citations received17
References cited32

In this paper, we explore narratives from interviews with British migrants who had shifted to Australia seeking a better way of life. Framed through the conceptual paradigm of lifestyle migration, we argue in this paper that pivotal to this late‐modern phenomenon is the moment of reflexivity where imagination over life elsewhere collides with present experiences in place. However, using the concept of emotional reflexivity, we argue that these reflexive moments are not simply cognitively processed. Rather, emotions in the everyday and emotions of imagined lives elsewhere colour the reflexive moment and guide decision making. Furthermore, once living the lifestyle migration, emotions continue to play a role in the everyday moments of reflexivity. In some circumstances, as we show, emotional detachment from the lifestyle migration experience creates impetus to leave place and return home. Through this paper, we hope to engage further with the argument that emotional reflexivity needs to be interrogated in lifestyle migration research

Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · Art · Epistemology · Everyday life · Literature · Narrative · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Medicine · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Psychology · Rural development and sustainability · Social Psychology

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