In recent years, the interdisciplinary fields of colonial and postcolonial studies have been enriched by nuanced analyses ways in which racialised identities (cross-cut gender, class sexuality) enacted particular settings. Nevertheless, quantity quality knowledge about lives European colonials settlers can be held stark contrast with relative scarcity those who might regarded as their modern-day equivalents: contemporary 'expatriates', or citizens 'Western' nation-states are involved...

This article explores the mobile homes and transnational homing of British expatriates in Dubai. In article, I analyze ordinary domestic objects that play a special role homemaking practices their expatriate owners, drawing on eighteen months ethnographic research including participant observation home-based interviews. argue thinking about belonging through belongings is productive because it empirically theoretically attentive to way which home experienced simultaneously as both material...

This paper analyses one British woman's everyday practices of belonging as she negotiates expatriate life in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. In doing so, it responds to widespread calls ground research on processes transnationalism and diaspora by drawing 18 months ethnographic adopting a three‐stranded analytical framework reflect the significance domesticity, intimacy foreignness belonging. The author focuses single subject draw attention particular experience otherwise neglected migration...

Existing research has tended to highlight the working lives, career trajectories and networking practices of skilled migrant men. In contrast, this article asserts significance domestic space in constitution narration masculinities, examining role practices, objects, relations. To do so, I explore narratives British migrants Dubai, drawing on ethnographic research, including interviews surrounding international relocation material culture, as well participant‐observation within homes....

This Special Issue on 'Ageing in Transnational Contexts: Transforming Everyday Practices and Identities Later Life' extends our understanding of how ageing is experienced transnational contexts. It focuses everyday lives identities older age are being negotiated by individuals who have migration histories or affected the mobilities others their lives. In introduction, we situate approach within an emerging strand research investigating inter-related processes migration. We also present seven...

This article explores performances of heterosexuality amongst single, straight British expatriates resident in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. I draw on eighteen months ethnographic fieldwork, involving participant-observation and interviewing. Specifically, focus transient heterosexuality, by which mean that are characterised frequent sexual encounters with successive partners enacted relation to discourses transience. Firstly, explore how Dubai is understood as a particular ‘landscape desire’...

This paper examines some of the emotions highlighted by interactions between British migrants and Gulf nationals in emerging global city Dubai. Tracing that emerge ‘expatriate’ handbooks, field notes, interview narratives, I contribute to an body work focuses on embodied migrant troubles notion privileged as being detached from place. demonstrate attention framing such interactions, both geographical temporal terms, can help us better understand encounters.

This collaborative article adopts a postcolonial theoretical framework to examine the imaginative geographies of British expatriates in Dubai. The analysis compares qualitative data from two time periods: 1968–71, immediately prior Federation United Arab Emirates when this area Arabian Peninsular was known as 'Trucial States', and 2002–04, some 30 years post-Federation. We argue that Self/Other are evident practices discourses both periods, and, spite their being reconfigured, there strong...

Abstract With reference to British transnationalism in Dubai, this article examines the discourses surrounding three types of intimate relationship – couple, family and friend as sites which love might be located experienced. As such, it responds a widespread neglect emotions accounts migration. The discussion focuses on ways migrants negotiate different sorts relationships with Britons both UK Dubai; how such relations places are inter‐connected; way they central spatial imaginations...

This special section builds on previous scholarship geographies of ageing, and relational transnational approaches to age migration, assert the significance ageing–migration nexus in human geography. Our primary goal is examine intricate relationships between space place. By bringing empirical research ageing migration into dialogue with existing conceptual work within Geography, we also aim critically contribute current debates both areas. The contributors explore a wide range processes...

There have been few analyses of heterosexuality in the context migration, particularly within Asia. As a corrective, this themed issue we bring together four articles to contribute debates on fluidity and how performance has particular spatialities East South-East Each article uses ethnographic methods produce nuanced specific spatially contingent performances heterosexuality. A migration focus illuminates spatial dislocation provides opportunities for both men women play out different...

ABSTRACT There is an emerging body of work analysing the significance contemporary British migration flows and practices, much which has consisted single‐site, in‐depth ethnographies in particular (global) cities. As a result, attention been directed towards diversity evident within migrant ‘communities’, these studies have tended to emphasise similarities across space continuities over time reproduction belonging. In this paper, I assert importance comparative analysis transnational...

This paper explores home materialities and imaginaries in later life, to provide insight into the dialectical relation between spatial processes of ageing migration. The draws on empirical research with British return migrants older age. analysis purposively selects four participants from among a wider sample interviewees highlight some diversity returnees their varied experiences remaking return. both privilege vulnerabilities all as meaning transforms life.

This article examines night-time bedroom soundscapes to highlight the significance of embodied geographies home in understanding lived inequalities housing. The presents an analysis responses (n =174) Mass Observation Project 'Your Bedroom' (2017) directive, which UK panellists were asked about their bedrooms. mundane, ordinary and frequent noise disturbance from neighbourhoods neighbours is documented contribute sensory domesticities. demonstrates that experiences soundscapes, including...

Amy Tan's The Bonesetter's Daughter is a fictional account of Chinese American woman and her mother, first-generation migrant, who negotiating dementia in later life. Analysis diasporic novels can provide insight into migrant belonging, especially the emotional geographies home subjectivities ageing that are not commonly or easily elucidated even by qualitative interviewing methods. This article examines construction as an intergenerational, cultural process, highlights role storytelling...

In spite of a burgeoning interest in children's home lives, we know little about the meaning and experience for children living post-divorce/separation families who often spend time more than one parental home. As starting point, this article I analyze way which thirteen "therapeutic" pictures books younger aged 3–8 represent such (and their parents) through text images. argue that contain four dominant tropes domestic transition representation disruption, journeys, thresholds, materialities...