Lifestyle migration beyond consumption – production binaries: Dutch migrants and multifunctional rural land use in Sweden : [Življenjsko-stilske migracije onkraj dvojice potrošnja – proizvodnja: Nizozemski migranti in večnamenska uporaba kmetijskih zemljišč na Švedskem]

Lifestyle migration literature often focuses on lifestyle migrants as consumers. However, this paper shows how various modes of production are involved in everyday migrant lives as they seek to pro-duce the lifestyles sought. The paper’s aim is twofold: to explore issues of production in lifestyle mi-grants’ everyday lives, and to examine these migrants’ potential contributions to local rural develop-ment in lagging rural areas such as Swedish Bergslagen. This aim is addressed through two in-depth interview studies. The findings suggest that the respondents combine lifestyle-led motivations wit... Mehr ...