“…During the last 20 years, a lifestyle-related migration has emerged as a major migration type, alongside traditional labour market-related migration, refugee migration and tied movers (Vandermotten et al 2004;Haas 2011). The prospect of being a permanent tourist (O'Reilly 2007;Ibrahim & Tremblay 2017;Åkerlund 2015), retirement (Casado-Díaz 2006;Gustafsson 2009) and the feeling of affluence and being privileged (Janoschka & Haas 2013;Benson 2014) have stimulated, for example, French to Morocco (Therrien 2013;Therrien & Pellegrini 2015), Brits to France (Benson 2009(Benson , 2010(Benson , 2011(Benson , 2013b, Spain (O'Reilly 2000 and Portugal (Torkington 2010(Torkington , 2015Torkington & Perdigão Ribeiro 2019), Americans to Panama (Jackiewicz & Craine 2010;Benson 2013a) and Swedes to Spain (Gustafsson 2001;Olsson 2017;Woube 2017) and Malta (Åkerlund 2013Åkerlund & Sandberg 2014).…”