The Movement Beyond (Lifestyle) Migration: Mobile Practices and the Constitution of a Better Way of Life

摘要

This article revisits my ethnography of the British in rural France to question how mobility in post-migration life was deemed intrinsic to the better way of life that they sought through their migration. Through the exploration of the migrants' everyday lives, I reveal that the migrants' mobile practices and their expectations of mobility contributed towards the perceived success of their new lives and were thus significant to the ongoing process getting to a better way of life. Beyond this example, the article also demonstrates how the findings of mobilities researchers may be mobilized in traditional anthropological fieldwork.