Boats, planes and trains: British migration, mobility and transnational experience
Boats, planes and trains: British migration, mobility and transnational experience
Author(s): Neil LuntSubject(s): Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: British migration; mobility; emigration; transnationalism;
Summary/Abstract: This paper discusses the paucity of scholarship on contemporary British international migration experience, and highlights why British nations are viewed as beyond detailed international migration and transnational scholarship. Resisting this closure, discussion invokes a transnational lens to explore three flows: post-war migration of British citizens to traditional destinations; British retirement migration to the Mediterranean; and British professional migration. The paper adds its voice to a growing body of work that argues for a widening of the migration agenda to include qualitative work and a transnational approach to enable British migratory experience to be fully investigated.
Journal: Migration Letters
- Issue Year: 5/2008
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 151-165
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English