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Wisnu Adihartono, Sociologist/Researcher, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
KEYWORDS: LGBT studies, gay studies, migration studies, diaspora studies, family studies, sociology of everyday life, micro-sociology, Southeast Asian studies
wisnuadi.reksodirdjo@gmail.com
Ulrika Åkerlund, Senior Lecturer, Karlstad University, Sweden
KEYWORDS: lifestyle mobilities, place meanings, counter-urbanization, everyday life, mobile methods, production and performance of lifestyle mobility
ulrika.akerlund@kau.se
Merve Altundal Öncü, Assistant Professor, Ankara University, Turkey
KEYWORDS: rural gentrification, Alpine gentrification, rural studies, lifestyle mobility, amenity migration, rural transformation, Turkey
maoncu@ankara.edu.tr

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Eve Bantman-Masum, Independent scholar, France
KEYWORDS: lifestyle migration, promotion and recruitment, mobility industry, French emigration to Canada and Portugal, North South migration in North America
bantman.eve@gmail.com
Sylvain Beck, PhD Sociology, Reader in Social Work, Université Paris-Nanterre/CEMEA, France
KEYWORDS: migration, theorizing expatriation, mobility, self-transformation, cosmopolitanism, French abroad, Social work, professionnalisation
sylvain_beck@yahoo.fr
Michaela Benson, Professor in Public Sociology, Lancaster University, UK
KEYWORDS: theorizing lifestyle migration; migration, citizenship and class; power and privilege; Brexit; British in Europe; British in Rural France; North Americans in Panama
alberica bozziAlberica Bozzi, doctoral candidate, Univ Gustave Eiffel, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, France
KEYWORDS: digital nomads, workation, coworking, coliving, Europe
alberica.bozzi@enpc.fr
Benedicte Brahic, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University
KEYWORDS: intra-European migration, relationships and the family, gender, mothering, Brexit, privileged migration, mobility, cosmopolitanism, uncertain migratory contexts, bordering
b.brahic@mmu.ac.uk

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Dr. Maria A. Casado-Diaz, School Director for Learning and Teaching, School of Architecture and Environment, CATE, UWE, Bristol, UK
KEYWORDS: retirement migration, tourism-related mobilities, visiting friends and relatives, Spain, social capital and leisure lifestyles, sharing economies and home exchange practices
maria.casado-diaz@uwe.ac.uk
Qiujie Chen, PhD candidate, École Pratique des Hautes Études – Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, France
KEYWORDS: lifestyle mobility in China, residential tourism, middle class, subculture, tourism economy
qiujie1024@gmail.com
Valentin Chenier, Doctoral researcher, Tampere University, Finland
KEYWORDS: youth studies, youth subcultures, lifestyle entrepreneurship, skateboarding, Sport for Development, Middle East and North Africa, Morocco
valentin.chenier@tuni.fi
Françoise Cognard, Associate Professor, University of Clermont Auvergne, France
KEYWORDS: amenity migrations, rural in-migrations, rural gentrification, Dutch residents in France, French migration in Portugal, retirement migration in Portugal, lifestyle migration in French Polynesia
francoise.cognard@uca.fr

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Claudia Dávila Valdés, Profesor Investigador, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mexico
KEYWORDS: Mérida, retirement migrantions, families migrations, Americans, Europeans
claudia.davila@correo.uady.mx
Jared Denman, Fukui Prefectural University, Japan
KEYWORDS: Japanese, Australia, mobility, personal communities, narratives
denman@fpu.ac.jp

E

Marco Eimermann, Assistant Professor, Human Geography, Umeå University, Sweden
KEYWORDS: communities, downshifting, entrepreneurs, rural development, sense of place, small villages, tourism
marco.eimermann@umu.se

Sten Engdahl, Ph.D., Lisbon School of Economics and Management (ISEG), Portugal
KEYWORDS: retirement migration, Portugal, Spain, Swedish IRM
stenengdahl@yahoo.com
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Axel Eriksson, PhD Graduate, Etour (European Research Institute) at Mid-Sweden University, Sweden
KEYWORDS: Digital Nomads, Informality, Citizenship, Portugal, Sweden
axel.eriksson@miun.se

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Emma Fàbrega Domènech, Postdoctoral researcher, European Social Research Unit, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
KEYWORDS: Retirement migration, Costa del Sol and Costa Brava, successful ageing, privileged migration, lifestyle and identity (re)construction
emma.fabrega@ub.edu
Dr. Fiona Ferbrache, Geography Lecturer, Keble College, Oxford, UK
KEYWORDS: Britons in France, intra-EU migration, Brexit, transnationalism, European mobilities, citizenship
Fiona.ferbrache@keble.ox.ac.uk
Célia Forget, Associate Professor and Scientific Coordinator of CELAT, PhD, Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada
KEYWORDS: mobile lifestyles, recreational vehicle communities, vanlife, migration, ethnography, North America
celia.forget@celat.ulaval.ca

G

Liesl L. Gambold, Associate Professor, Dalhousie University, Canada
KEYWORDS: international retirement migration; experiences of aging migrants; diverse intentional communities; LGBTQ aging and housing; qualitative research methods; European Union, Mexico
liesl.gambold@dal.ca
Sofia Gaspar, Senior Researcher, CIES-ISCTE, Portugal
KEYWORDS: family lifestyle migration, privileged mobilities, Portugal, investment migrations, climate-induced migration
sofia.gaspar@iscte-iul.pt
Jordi Giner, Senior Lecturer, Universitat de València, Spain
KEYWORDS: return migration, retirement migration, Spain
Jordi.Giner@uv.es

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Kelly Hall, Reader, University of Birmingham, UK
KEYWORDS: retirement migration, Spain, EU, care, fourth age, return migration, Brexit
k.j.hall@bham.ac.uk
Olga Hannonen, Visiting Researcher, Business School, University of Eastern Finland
KEYWORDS: second-home mobility, lifestyle mobility, trans-border mobility, digital nomads, voluntary mobile populations, Russians
olga.hannonen@uef.fi
Matthew Hayes, Professor of Sociology, Canada Research Chair in Global and Transnational Studies, St. Thomas University, Fredericton, Canada
KEYWORDS: global sociology, migration, political economy, urban studies, social theory
mhayes@stu.ca
Azad Heydarov, Ph.D. Candidate, The Doctoral College of Sociology, University of Wroclaw, Poland
KEYWORDS: Digital nomads, international volunteering, youth & generation, intercultural mediation, digital sociology
azad.heydarov@uwr.edu.pl

I

Hiroki Igarashi, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Global and Transdisciplinary Studies, Chiba University, Japan
KEYWORDS: transnational families, education, social stratification, privilege,  Japan, Southeast Asia
hiroki@chiba-u.jp
Anna Giulia Ingellis, Associate professor at the University of Valencia, Spain and Vice Dean of mobility and internationalization at Faculty of Social Science
KEYWORDS: lifestyle migration, intra-Southern Europe migration, gender inequality in Southern Europe, return migration
giuliana.ingellis@uv.es

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Edward Jackiewicz , Professor and Department Chair, California State University Northridge, USA
KEYWORDS: retirement migration, lifestyle migration, amenity migration,  Latin America/ Caribbean, Western United States
ed.jackiewicz@csun.edu

K

Bahar Kaba, Postdoctoral researcher, Ege University, Turkey
KEYWORDS: urban/rural/coastal lifestyle migration, from Istanbul to Izmir, representation of place, place attachment, place identity
baharkaba@outlook.com
Dr. Kumiko Kawashima, Associate Professor, Rikkyo University, Japan
KEYWORDS: working holiday, urban-rural migration, retirement migration, youth, labour, consumption, gender, retirement migration, Japan, Australia
kumiko.kawashima@rikkyo.ac.jp
Dr. Nilay Kilinç, Postdoctoral Researcher, Helsinki Institute of Urban and Regional Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland
KEYWORDS: highly-skilled migration, urban inequality, return migration, Euro-Turks, belonging, lifestyle migration
nilay.kilinc@helsinki.fi
Stefan Kordel, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
KEYWORDS: rural in-migration, mobilities, attachments and home, migration-development nexus, participatory and visual research methods
stefan.kordel@fau.de
Mari Korpela, Academy Research Fellow, Tampere University, Finland
KEYWORDS: bohemian lifestyle migration, India, children, countercultures, ethnography
mari.korpela@tuni.fi
Kaisu Koskela, PhD, post-doctoral researcher, Radboud University, The Netherlands KEYWORDS: digital nomadism, digital nomad visas, international remote work, remote work policy, skilled migration, lifestyle migration, social identities
kaisu.koskela@ru.nl

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Ann Elisabeth Laksfoss Cardozo, Associate Professor, University of Stavanger, Norway
KEYWORDS: Retirement migration, local history, transnational relations, citizen science, environmental citizenship, history of ornithology/nature conservation
Ann.e.cardozo@uis.no
Raúl Lardiés-Bosque, PhD in Geography, Associate Professor, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
KEYWORDS: lifestyle and immigration to rural areas, counterurbanisation, retirement migration
rlardies@unizar.es
Michelle Lawson, PhD in Applied Linguistics; Associate Lecturer, The Open University, UK
KEYWORDS: migrant identity, stereotypes, discourse analysis, media representations of British in France
michelle.lawson@open.ac.uk
Brenda Le Bigot, Associate Professor, University of Poitiers, France
KEYWORDS: privileged migrations, retirement, backpackers, Morocco, South-East Asia
brenda.le.bigot@univ-poitiers.fr
Catrin Lundström, Associate professor, Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), Linköping University, Sweden
KEYWORDS: gender, whiteness, transnationalism, expatriates, Swedish women in Southwestern US, Singapore and southern Spain
catrin.lundstrom@liu.se

M

Fabiola Mancinelli, PhD, Assistant professor, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Barcelona, Spain
KEYWORDS: Digital nomads, lifestyle nomads families, expatriates, remote work, Southeast Asia
fabiolamancinelli@ub.edu
David Matarrita-Cascante, Associate professor, Department of Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management, Texas A&M University, USA
KEYWORDS: community development, community conservation, natural resource sociology, environmental sociology
dmatarrita@tamu.edu

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Raluca Nagy, Part-time Lecturer, Hokkaido University, Japan
KEYWORDS: migration, tourism, mobilities, medical anthropology, Asia-Pacific, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam
ralukkia@yahoo.com
Melanie Neumann, Dr, Embassy of Ireland, Berlin, Germany
KEYWORDS: bohemian lifestyle migration, Berlin, Irish migration, British migration, language
meli.neumann@hotmail.com
Roger Norum, Associate Professor in  Cultural Anthropology, University of Oulu, Finland
KEYWORDS: environment, media, infrastructure, elite mobilities, travel writing, transdisciplinarity; Arctic, Nepal, Cambodia
roger.norum@oulu.fi

O

Dr. Caroline Oliver, Associate Professor in Sociology, University College London, Institute of Education, UK
KEYWORDS: retirement migration, Spain, ageing, community, class
c.oliver@ucl.ac.uk
Nick Osbaldiston, Associate professor, James Cook University, Australia
KEYWORDS: theory, cultural narratives of migration, Australia, internal migration, community impacts
nick.osbaldiston@jcu.edu.au

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Jordan Pinel, Postdoctoral Researcher, National institute of demographic studies; Associated to Migrinter, Université de Poitiers, France
KEYWORDS: retirees from France to Morocco, return migration, residential practices, family and social spaces
jordan.pinel@gmail.com

R

Gerhard Rainer, Postdoctoral Researcher, Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany
KEYWORDS: amenity/lifestyle migration, tourism-migration nexus, political ecology, globalization
gerhard.rainer@ku.de
Lucie Remešová, PhD Student, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
KEYWORDS: Peru and Morocco, privileged migration, whiteness, bohemian migration, romantic migration, sport tourism, identity and spirituality
lucie.remesova@gmail.com
Joaquín Rodes, Assistant lecturer, Catholic University San Antonio of Murcia, Spain
KEYWORDS: retirement migration, transnationalism, social integration, Spain
jrodes@ucam.edu
Gabriel Alberto Ceballos Rodriguez, Researcher, Institute of Social Sciences at Tartu University, Estonia
KEYWORDS: Mixed / binational families; (privileged) migration; multiculturalism
gabriel.alberto.ceballos.rodriguez@ut.ee
Nataša Rogelja Caf, Research Fellow, Research Centre of the Academy of Science and Arts, Slovenia
KEYWORDS: liveaboards in Mediterranean, new forms of nomadism among Westerners, tourism, maritime anthropology, mobile ethnography
natasa.rogelja@zrc-sazu.si

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Noel B. Salazar, Founding Director CuMoRe (Cultural Mobilities Research), KU Leuven, Belgium
KEYWORDS: (im)mobility theory, mothodologies of mobility, life-cycle transition migration, EU, Chile, Indonesia, Tanzania
noel.salazar@kuleuven.be
Dora Sampaio, Assistant Professor, Utrecht University, Netherlands
KEYWORDS: migration regimes, ageing, transnational inequalities, lifestyle mobilities, care, Azores, Portugal
d.i.martinssampaio@uu.nl
Martin Šimon, Researcher, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
KEYWORDS: rural lifestyle migration, counterurbanisation, amenity migration, mobilities, post-socialist countries
martin.simon@soc.cas.cz
Laure Sizaire, postdoctoral fellow, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium & Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
KEYWORDS: gender; transnational conjugality & intimacy; privileged mobility; power relation; intersectionality; race; Post-soviet space; West Africa; Southeast Asia
laure.sizaire@ulb.be

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Šárka Tesařová, Graduate student, Charles University, Czech Republic
KEYWORDS: residential decentralization, rural lifestyle migration, decision-making process
sarka@saturnin.eu
Kate Torkington, Professora Adjunta, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
KEYWORDS: migrant identities, place-identity, lifestyle migration, Algarve, Portugal, entrepreneurial lifestyle migration to rural areas, discourse analysis
ktorking@ualg.pt
Rémy Tremblay, Professor, TELUQ, University of Quebec, Canada
KEYWORDS: tourism, seasonal migration, Canadians in Florida, geography of music
remy.tremblay@teluq.ca

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Simone Varriale, Lecturer in Sociology, Loughborough University, UK
KEYWORDS: Post-austerity Italian migration; youth mobilities/migrations; decolonial theory and race/class; lifestyle and labour migration; intra-EU migrations/mobilities
S.Varriale@lboro.ac.uk

W

Tobias Weidinger, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
KEYWORDS: immigration to rural areas, retirement migration, regional development
tobias.weidinger@fau.de

Y

Yana Yovcheva, PhD, Independent Researcher, Bulgaria
KEYWORDS: lifestyle migration, Japanese migrants, Europe, gender, link between studying abroad and lifestyle migration
yana_svezhen@yahoo.com

Z

Hila Zaban, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Kinneret Academic College, Israel
KEYWORDS: Jewish ideological and religious lifestyle migration, privileged migration, Jerusalem, Israel, diasporas, belonging, gentrification, transnational gentrification
hilazaban@gmail.com