Our purpose in this paper is to explore the various types of interrelationship between two mobility forms – migration on the one hand, and visiting friends and relatives ‘back home’ (and maybe elsewhere) on the other. The link between visiting friends and relatives (VFR) and migration has until recently been overlooked by migration scholars. It was essentially the 1990s ‘transnational turn’ in migration studies which highlighted more explicitly the to-and-fro mobilities that migrants engaged in with their homelands. Fast and cheap air travel has facilitated this intense VFR mobility. Taking a wider view, we argue that VFR travel is not a marginal aspect of migrants’ lives but is in fact constitutive of contemporary migration and di...
BACKGROUND Despite research paying increasing attention to intergenerational care and geographical d...
Tourism can be a difficult form of travel to define. In order to make working with tourism easier, t...
The relationship between tourism and migration that has resulted from increasing global mobility is ...
Our purpose in this paper is to explore the various types of interrelationship between two mobility ...
Our purpose in this paper is to explore the various types of interrelationship between two mobility ...
The increasing number of people leading more mobile lives, with spatially dispersed families, raises...
Most studies of migrants visiting their friends and relatives (VFR) are on homeland visits. In this ...
This article is concerned with issues of travelling home in narratives of migration, drawing particu...
A comparative examination of two groups of highly skilled Global North migrants – US citizens (Ameri...
© 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. A comparative examination of two groups of highly skilled Global No...
A comparative examination of two groups of highly skilled Global North migrants – US citizens (Ameri...
This is a piece of early-stage postgraduate research on Visiting Friends and Relatives (VFR) tourism...
This paper contributes to the literature on the linkages between tourism and migration. Though it is...
This article adds to literatures bridging the divide between internal and international migrations b...
This article adds to literatures bridging the divide between internal and international migrations b...
BACKGROUND Despite research paying increasing attention to intergenerational care and geographical d...
Tourism can be a difficult form of travel to define. In order to make working with tourism easier, t...
The relationship between tourism and migration that has resulted from increasing global mobility is ...
Our purpose in this paper is to explore the various types of interrelationship between two mobility ...
Our purpose in this paper is to explore the various types of interrelationship between two mobility ...
The increasing number of people leading more mobile lives, with spatially dispersed families, raises...
Most studies of migrants visiting their friends and relatives (VFR) are on homeland visits. In this ...
This article is concerned with issues of travelling home in narratives of migration, drawing particu...
A comparative examination of two groups of highly skilled Global North migrants – US citizens (Ameri...
© 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. A comparative examination of two groups of highly skilled Global No...
A comparative examination of two groups of highly skilled Global North migrants – US citizens (Ameri...
This is a piece of early-stage postgraduate research on Visiting Friends and Relatives (VFR) tourism...
This paper contributes to the literature on the linkages between tourism and migration. Though it is...
This article adds to literatures bridging the divide between internal and international migrations b...
This article adds to literatures bridging the divide between internal and international migrations b...
BACKGROUND Despite research paying increasing attention to intergenerational care and geographical d...
Tourism can be a difficult form of travel to define. In order to make working with tourism easier, t...
The relationship between tourism and migration that has resulted from increasing global mobility is ...