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Rethinking lifestyle and middle-class migration in “left behind” regions
Population, Space and Place ( IF 2.630 ) Pub Date : 2021-06-15 , DOI: 10.1002/psp.2495
Bryonny Goodwin‐Hawkins 1 , Rhys Dafydd Jones 2
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So-called “left behind” regions have gained infamy for working-class discontent. Yet a concurrent phenomenon has gone unremarked: middle-class lifestyles in peripheral places. This article examines how middle-class migrants (defined by economic, social, and cultural capital) to peripheral regions envisage and enact their aspirations. Against presumed migration trajectories to growing urban centres or for better-paid employment, we argue that seeming moves down the “escalator” reveal how inequalities between regions offer some migrants opportunities to enact middle-class lifestyles affordably. We present a qualitative case study of West Wales and the Valleys, predominantly rural and post-industrial and statistically among Europe's most deprived regions. Drawing from interviews with EU and UK in-migrants alongside long-term residents, we illustrate how three dimensions of quality of life—material, relational, subjective—are mobilised in middle-class placemaking amidst peripherality. We demonstrate how spatial inequalities and career trade-offs offer affordable material access to lifestyle and how middle-class aspirations enable migrants to subjectively transform peripherality into enchantment.

中文翻译:

反思“留守”地区的生活方式和中产阶级迁移

所谓的“落后”地区因工人阶级的不满而声名狼藉。然而,一个同时发生的现象却没有引起注意:周边地区的中产阶级生活方式。本文审视周边地区的中产阶级移民(由经济、社会和文化资本定义)如何设想和实现他们的愿望。与向发展中的城市中心或更高薪就业的假定迁移轨迹相反,我们认为,似乎沿着“自动扶梯”向下移动揭示了地区之间的不平等如何为一些移民提供了以负担得起的方式过上中产阶级生活方式的机会。我们提出了西威尔士和山谷的定性案例研究,主要是农村和后工业化地区,并且在统计上属于欧洲最贫困的地区。根据对欧盟和英国移民以及长期居民的采访,我们说明了生活质量的三个维度——物质的、关系的、主观的——是如何在外围的中产阶级场所营造中调动起来的。我们展示了空间不平等和职业权衡如何为生活方式提供负担得起的物质途径,以及中产阶级的抱负如何使移民主观上将边缘化为魅力。
更新日期:2021-06-15
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