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Opting For Elsewhere: Lifestyle Migration In The American Middle Class, Brian A. Hoey
Opting For Elsewhere: Lifestyle Migration In The American Middle Class, Brian A. Hoey
Brian A. Hoey, Ph.D.
"Do you get told what the good life is, or do you figure it out for yourself?" This is the central question of Opting for Elsewhere, as the reader encounters stories of people who chose relocation as a way of redefining themselves and reordering work, family, and personal priorities. This is a book about the impulse to start over. Whether downshifting from stressful careers or being downsized from jobs lost in a surge of economic restructuring, lifestyle migrants seek refuge in places that seem to resonate with an idealized, potential self. Choosing the "option of elsewhere" and moving as a …
American Dreaming: Refugees From Corporate Work Seek The Good Life, Brian A. Hoey
American Dreaming: Refugees From Corporate Work Seek The Good Life, Brian A. Hoey
Brian A. Hoey, Ph.D.
The economic restructuring and corporate downsizing that has come to define the contemporary working world has made contingent, part-time, and temporary work a part of the American social landscape. In this chapter, life-style migrants describe challenging taken for granted assumptions of the American Dream as a framework, a moral horizon that orients and promises future reward for present day loyalty, hard work and self-sacrifice. The decision of how to live one’s life is made of more than simply economic choices, they are also moral. The case of life-style migration shows how people may attempt to be true to an emerging …