Boundary work in the interpretations of French and Italian lifestyle migrants to Morocco

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ID24226231
AuthorsMatthew Hayes (0000-0002-6898-5657, St. Thomas University)
Year2026
Pages1-19
Publication date2026-05-08
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew Community (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1369183x.2026.2664022
OpenAlexW7160653871
LanguageEN
References cited38

This article draws attention to the boundary work that French- and Italian-speaking migrants from Europe deploy to make sense of their transnationalism and resettlement in receiving communities in Morocco. It develops a concept of category boundary to discuss the way that research participants distinguished between different types of transnationalism, developing common sense theories of global inequality that are stabilised by cultural codes of individual merit and work ethic. This boundary work partly reflects the cultural dispositions of privileged global social positions, and points to how privileged migrants understand their advantages to be legitimate in ways that reproduce global relations of power and structures of inequality. Rather than taking for granted the social boundaries between North-South and South-North migrations, this article explores their symbolic dimensions in the experiences of European lifestyle migrants.

Boundary-work · category boundaries · global inequality · individual merit · lifestyle migration · North-South migration · power relations · South-North migration · symbolic boundaries · Transnationalism · Work ethic · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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