TY - JOUR
T1 - Expat Nostalgia
T2 - Nostalgic Emotions among 'Permanent Tourists' in Pattaya, Thailand
AU - Jacobsen, Michael Hviid
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - In a globalized world, the ability to travel and settle elsewhere than one’s native country is an oppor-tunity open to still more people. Particularly with the rise of ‘retirement migration’ or ‘lifestyle mi-gration’, increasing numbers of senior members move to foreign destinations in order to live the re-maining parts of their lives. The reasons for leaving their home countries in the first place are diver-sified as are also their experienced upon arrival. However, nostalgia is an identifiable emotion among many expats or, in this article called ‘permanent tourists’, who may experience a longing for what they left behind. Based on a study in the city of Pattaya, Thailand, the author by way of infor-mal meetings and conversations with Western expatriates explored their experiences of nostalgia as an everyday emotion relating to different parts of their lives and memories. The article shows how nostalgia is far from a one-dimensional emotional response to changing life-circumstances, but rather encompasses a variety of connotations, expressions and experiences.
AB - In a globalized world, the ability to travel and settle elsewhere than one’s native country is an oppor-tunity open to still more people. Particularly with the rise of ‘retirement migration’ or ‘lifestyle mi-gration’, increasing numbers of senior members move to foreign destinations in order to live the re-maining parts of their lives. The reasons for leaving their home countries in the first place are diver-sified as are also their experienced upon arrival. However, nostalgia is an identifiable emotion among many expats or, in this article called ‘permanent tourists’, who may experience a longing for what they left behind. Based on a study in the city of Pattaya, Thailand, the author by way of infor-mal meetings and conversations with Western expatriates explored their experiences of nostalgia as an everyday emotion relating to different parts of their lives and memories. The article shows how nostalgia is far from a one-dimensional emotional response to changing life-circumstances, but rather encompasses a variety of connotations, expressions and experiences.
KW - Nostakgia, expatriate, Pattaya, Thailand, nostalgia for one's homeland, nostalgia for one's youth, nostalgia for the past of one's present home
U2 - 10.48165/sajssh.2021.2108
DO - 10.48165/sajssh.2021.2108
M3 - Journal article
SN - 2582-7065
VL - 2
SP - 93
EP - 115
JO - South Asian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
JF - South Asian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
IS - 1
ER -