Intersections of Tourism Migration and Exile

<p>This book challenges the classic – and often tacit – compartmentalization of tourism migration and refugee studies by exploring the intersections of these forms of spatial mobility: each prompts distinctive images and moral reactions yet they often intertwine overlap and influence one another.</p><p><strong>Tourism migration and exile</strong> evoke widely varying policies diverse popular reactions and contrasting imagery. What are the ramifications of these siloed conceptions for people on the move? To what extent do gender class ethnic and racial global inequalities shape moral discourses surrounding people’s movements? This book presents 12 predominantly ethnographic case studies from around the world and a pandemic-focused conclusion that address these issues. In recounting and juxtaposing stories of refugees’ and migrants’ returns marriage migrants voluntourists migrant retirees migrant tourism workers and entrepreneurs mobile investors and professionals and refugees pursuing educational mobility this book cultivates more nuanced insights into intersecting forms of mobility. Ultimately this work promises to foster not only empathy but also greater resolve for forging trails toward mobility justice.</p><p>This accessibly written volume will be essential to scholars and students in critical migration tourism and refugee studies including anthropologists sociologists human geographers and researchers in political science and cultural studies. The book will also be of interest to non-academic professionals and general readers interested in contemporary mobilities.</p>