The 'British in Spain' achieved notoriety during the 1980s. As a group they were stereotyped as being made up of exiled criminals, drunken hooligans and inward looking pensioners - unwelcome colonisers reconstructing their own insular 'little England'. The British on the Costa del Sol presents a more complex picture. In this first book length ethnography of the British expatriate community, Karen O'Reilly draws on history, social geography, tourism studies, and theories of ethnicity and community to frame detailed interviews with British migrants themselves. What emerges is a rich account of who migrates, their reasons for migration and the day to day realities of expatriate life. Whilst Britons migrating to Spain have not integrated into their host communities, neither have they colonised swathes of the Spanish coast. The author presents instead a marginal group occupying a liminal space between two countries and two cultures. The British on the Costa del Sol is a lively and accessible account of an under researched transnationl community, and will appeal to social anthropologists and sociologists as well as to the general reader.
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her account not only fills and ethnographic gap with respect to this particular community but also draws attention to the field of leisure migration...O'Rielly's study [is] both welcome and necessary.
–american ethnologist, volume 29 number 4 november 2002
As the first major ethnographic study of British migrants in Spain, The British on the Costa Del Sol is to be welcomed for the light it sheds on an important but hitherto poorly researched subject. It is a valuable addition to the literature on the ethnicity and European migration, as well as on tourism in its mass and long-stay forms. As a pleasant bonus, it also happens to be a very enjoyable read..
–Canadian Journal of Sociology Online, September 2001.
–american ethnologist, volume 29 number 4 november 2002
As the first major ethnographic study of British migrants in Spain, The British on the Costa Del Sol is to be welcomed for the light it sheds on an important but hitherto poorly researched subject. It is a valuable addition to the literature on the ethnicity and European migration, as well as on tourism in its mass and long-stay forms. As a pleasant bonus, it also happens to be a very enjoyable read..
–Canadian Journal of Sociology Online, September 2001.
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Costa del Sol, Full Resident, Los Boliches, Returning Resident, Royal British Legion, Peripatetic Visitors, Lux Mundi, Age Concern, Fodor's Spain, Sister Mary, British Consulate, British Empire, European Community, Father Delius, Ronald Elliott, Several Britons, Joan Hunt, Sunday Sun, Ronnie Knight, Brownie Guides, Ecumenical Centre Browse Sample Pages:
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Costa del Sol, Full Resident, Los Boliches, Returning Resident, Royal British Legion, Peripatetic Visitors, Lux Mundi, Age Concern, Fodor's Spain, Sister Mary, British Consulate, British Empire, European Community, Father Delius, Ronald Elliott, Several Britons, Joan Hunt, Sunday Sun, Ronnie Knight, Brownie Guides, Ecumenical Centre Browse Sample Pages:
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