Back to the Future

The Impact of Perceptions and Experiences of Time on the Lives of British Lifestyle Migrants in Spain

Bibliographic Data

ID2323366
AuthorsLisa Dixon (0000-0002-2844-4610, Liverpool John Moores University, corresponding author), Laura Dixon
Year2023
Volume57
Issue1
Pages228-242
Publication date2023-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0385 • E-ISSN: 1469-8684
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00380385221096267
OpenAlexW4281628130
LanguageEN
References cited37

Increasingly, lifestyle migration research has focused on the ways that social categories like race, gender and sexuality, as well as concepts from post-colonialism to spatialisation, intersect and impact on lifestyle migrants' everyday experiences, in an attempt to complicate its theoretical foundations. Adding to this body of work, this article explicitly investigates post-migration perceptions of time among lifestyle migrants, which have previously been more implicitly explored. It does so, by showing how British migrants in the Catalan tourist town of Sitges remained orientated towards the future in a way that conflicted with the temporal rhythm of the town itself, which was determined by a calendar of cultural festivals and events that was repeated annually, with minimal variation. As a result, participants soon felt so stuck within a seemingly unchanging present, which they were unable to transition fully into, that it often precipitated (or contributed to) return migration to the UK

Catalan · Colonialism · Human sexuality · Humanities · Perception · Race (biology) · Sociology · Tourism · Variation (astronomy) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Gender Studies · History · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Psychology · Rural development and sustainability

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