‘This book will trigger dreams’: The memoirs of lifestyle migrants in rural France - recounting, entertaining, promoting

The migration of British individuals in rural and coastal areas of Europe and beyond has received an outstanding attention in media, with TV programs, movies, news articles or news magazine entirely dedicated to it and with a plethoric entertainment literature of “travel writings” and memoirs. In th...

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Main Author: Aude Etrillard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade do Algarve 2014-11-01
Series:Dos Algarves: A Multidisciplinary e-Journal
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Online Access:http://www.dosalgarves.com/revistas/N24/5rev24.pdf
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spelling doaj-9f2d33ad94a3449c9973ed1ed8883eb32021-08-02T02:11:33ZengUniversidade do AlgarveDos Algarves: A Multidisciplinary e-Journal2182-55802014-11-01246482‘This book will trigger dreams’: The memoirs of lifestyle migrants in rural France - recounting, entertaining, promotingAude Etrillard0Université Rennes 2The migration of British individuals in rural and coastal areas of Europe and beyond has received an outstanding attention in media, with TV programs, movies, news articles or news magazine entirely dedicated to it and with a plethoric entertainment literature of “travel writings” and memoirs. In this paper I will present a critical analysis of such a literature, which explores how it is participating to the fetishisation of lifestyle migration, producing commercial argumentation for a lifestyle change via positive narratives and depictions of the migration processes, of the French rural places and of autochthone populations, marked with the socioeconomic structural conditions of lifestyle migration.http://www.dosalgarves.com/revistas/N24/5rev24.pdflifestyle migrationcommodity fetishismmemoirsBritish migrantsrural France
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Dos Algarves: A Multidisciplinary e-Journal
lifestyle migration
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rural France
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title ‘This book will trigger dreams’: The memoirs of lifestyle migrants in rural France - recounting, entertaining, promoting
title_short ‘This book will trigger dreams’: The memoirs of lifestyle migrants in rural France - recounting, entertaining, promoting
title_full ‘This book will trigger dreams’: The memoirs of lifestyle migrants in rural France - recounting, entertaining, promoting
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title_full_unstemmed ‘This book will trigger dreams’: The memoirs of lifestyle migrants in rural France - recounting, entertaining, promoting
title_sort ‘this book will trigger dreams’: the memoirs of lifestyle migrants in rural france - recounting, entertaining, promoting
publisher Universidade do Algarve
series Dos Algarves: A Multidisciplinary e-Journal
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publishDate 2014-11-01
description The migration of British individuals in rural and coastal areas of Europe and beyond has received an outstanding attention in media, with TV programs, movies, news articles or news magazine entirely dedicated to it and with a plethoric entertainment literature of “travel writings” and memoirs. In this paper I will present a critical analysis of such a literature, which explores how it is participating to the fetishisation of lifestyle migration, producing commercial argumentation for a lifestyle change via positive narratives and depictions of the migration processes, of the French rural places and of autochthone populations, marked with the socioeconomic structural conditions of lifestyle migration.
topic lifestyle migration
commodity fetishism
memoirs
British migrants
rural France
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