The Contested Spaces of Lifestyle Mobilities: Regime Analysis as a Tool to Study Political Claims in Latin American Retirement Destinations
Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: Amenity-oriented migration of mainly retired North Americans to destinations in Latin America \nis a relatively new but rapidly expanding mobility that, amongst others, induces an interesting \narray of political claims and practices. Unlike economic migrants, the predominantly wealthy and \noften economically successful amenity migrants possess resources to participate in local and \nregional development; additionally, they have the know-how to initiate and activate political \nnetworks. The article discusses recent trends of lifestyle-oriented mobilities to Latin America and \naims at developing a conceptual framework to analyse the role foreigners can play in the negotiation \nof strategies for local and regional development. Regime analysis, a particular way to conceive \ngovernance, is used as a tool to consider the possibilities and problems arising from lifestyle \nmobilities to Latin America, as specified through the empirical debate regarding planning \nconflicts in a recently established retirement destination in northern Costa Rica.
Author: Michael Janoschka
Language: English
Subfield: Demography
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1024309072