Privileged migration folds together different kinds of global mobilities characterised by individuals’ capacity to benefit from, maximise, or exert privilege through migration. Whether privilege comes from race, place of birth, wealth, or professional qualification, it allows migrants to define their migration strategy in terms of their own choosing, rather than by material need, unsafety, or persecution. In the context of generalised immobility, the COVID-19 pandemic made evident how specific individuals have been able to move to safer destinations, to do remote work from sunnier places, or even to get vaccinated earlier in other countries. The pandemic also exacerbated vulnerability and precarity, potential drivers for the mobility of the relatively privileged to lower-cost destinations.
PriMob as a research initiative (http://primob.ceg.ulisboa.pt/) is allocated two panels at the conference and welcomes paper submissions both from PriMob’s members and non-members. It will bring together researchers working on various kinds of privileged mobilities (lifestyle, digital nomadism, retirement, investment, amenity, entrepreneurial, elite, highly skilled and international residential mobilities).
We welcome papers related (but not limited) to the following topics:
Please submit a 250-word abstract by 6 Dec 2021 to: Jennifer McGarrigle - jcarvalho@campus.ul.pt & Franz Buhr - fbuhr@campus.ul.pt
For the Mobile Lives Forum, mobility is understood as the process of how individuals travel across distances in order to deploy through time and space the activities that make up their lifestyles. These travel practices are embedded in socio-technical systems, produced by transport and communication industries and techniques, and by normative discourses on these practices, with considerable social, environmental and spatial impacts.
En savoir plus xA lifestyle is a composition of daily activities and experiences that give sense and meaning to the life of a person or a group in time and space.
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