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Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1: Introduction -- Practice Stories -- About the Research -- Building Practice Stories -- Research with Lifestyle Migrants in Malaysia and Panama -- Why Study Privileged Migration? Colonial Pasts and Neoliberal Presents -- Intersections of Migration and Privilege -- Lifestyle Migration and the Neoliberal Subject -- Tourism, Imagination, and Migration -- Interrogating the Role of Power and Privilege in Migration -- Neoliberalism and Postcolonialism in the Practice of Privileged Migration -- About the Chapters -- References -- 2: Colonial Traces and Neoliberal Presents: Situating Malaysia and Panama -- Malaysia and Panama on the Map -- On the Map: Malaysia -- On the Map: Panama -- Malaysia and Panama and Colonial Histories -- Malaya: From Colonisation to Independence, Consolidating Ethnic Tensions3 -- From Panamá to Panama: Cabildo to Country -- Independence for Malaysia -- the United States in Panama -- Malaya to Malaysia: From War to Independence -- The United States and Panama -- Contemporary Malaysia and Panama -- Malaysia Present Day: Economy and Migration -- Contemporary Economic Development in Panama: Inequalities in 'the Crossroads of the World' -- Conclusions -- Spotlight on Penang -- Penang: A Brief Introduction -- Penang and Colonisation -- Spotlight on Boquete -- Boquete: A Brief Introduction -- Destination Boquete? -- Closing thoughts on Boquete and Penang -- References -- 3: Residential Tourism and Economic Development: Imagineering Boquete and Penang -- About Residential Tourism -- Spain, the Paradigmatic Case of Residential Tourism -- Residential Tourism as Economic Development -- Residential Tourism, FDI, and the Individualisation of Risk -- Promoting Malaysia and Panama as 'the World's Best Places to Retire' -- Lifestyle Media -- Lifestyle Intermediaries -- Imagineering Panama and Malaysia Selling Malaysia -- Imagineering Penang -- Panama for Sale3 -- Making Boquete as a Lifestyle Destination -- Conclusion -- References -- 4: Governance as Practice: Regulating Lifestyle Migration -- Migration Governance as Practice -- Elite Entry Routes: Visas, Residence, and Capital in Malaysia and Panama -- Practising Elite Migration -- Manipulating Migration Governance -- Mobility-Enclosure, Practice, and Elite Migration -- Towards a Flexible Governance of Elite Migration -- Conclusion -- References -- 5: Diverse Lives: Weaving Personal Stories -- Biographies and Migration: Writing About the Lives of Others -- A Snapshot of Diverse Lives -- Migration Histories -- Incremental Practices of Lifestyle Migration -- Actively Choosing a New Life -- Migration as a Series of Contingencies -- Futures -- Conclusion -- References -- 6: Working Towards the Good Life -- Beyond the 'Expatriate Package' -- Corporate Expatriates and Mobile Professionals in Malaysia and Panama -- Choice and Insecurity in Working Lives Abroad -- Gender and Expatriacy -- Decoupling Work and Migration -- Flexible Work(ers) and Lifestyle Entrepreneurs -- The Role of Work in the Creation of the Good Life -- Capitalising on the English Language -- Retired but Not Retiring -- Living (Well) on a Pension? -- Working Retirement -- Volunteering -- Conclusion -- References -- 7: Home-Making and the Reproduction of Privilege -- Home-Making Practices, Privilege, and Migration -- Home, Migration, Belonging -- At Home in Privilege -- Multiscalar Geographies of Home in Elite Migration -- Material Aspects of Home-Making -- Expatriate Dwellings -- Domestic Belongings and Home-Making -- Social Aspects of Home-Making -- Formal Associations -- Transnational Connections -- Emotional and Autobiographical Home-Making -- Life Events in the Process of Home-Making -- Cosmopolitan Belonging -- Conclusion References -- 8: The Pursuit of Well-Being and a Healthy Way of Life -- Imagining a Healthy Way of Life (Curative and Therapeutic Landscapes) -- Imagining a Healthier Life in Penang and Boquete -- Imagining Healthy Ageing -- Healthy Provisions, Healthy Practices (Being Supported to Live Healthily) -- Understanding Healthcare Provision -- In Malaysia -- In Panama -- Ageing Healthily, with Paid 'Help' -- Supporting Our Community -- Conclusion -- References -- 9: Telling Practice Stories of Lifestyle Migration at the Intersections of Postcoloniality and Neoliberalism -- Conceptualising Lifestyle Migration as a Privileged Form of Migration -- From Distant to Proximate Social Structures in Lifestyle Migration -- Colonial Pasts and Neoliberal Presents: The Wider Context -- Promoting and Imagineering Lifestyle Migration: The More Proximate Context -- Managing Migration Through Visas and Regulations: Proximate Contexts, Agency, and Practice -- Embodying, Enacting, and Practising Lifestyle Migration -- Weaving Migration Stories -- The Ongoing Construction of Lifestyle Migration in Everyday Migrant Lives -- Closing Thoughts -- References -- References -- Index
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