ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author begins by re-visiting rural France, setting up her ethnographic research with Britons living in the Lot. She introduces the lifestyle migration framework, highlighting the key conceptual and theoretical framing this offers and the significance of thinking relationally about affluence and privilege within a broader sociological project of ‘undoing’ privilege. The author highlights the inherently postcolonial legacies at play in the structuring of privilege that facilitates such migrations, framing the imaginings of people and place within the destination. Within the context of a volume on British migration, considerations of how privilege is constituted have particular relevance and salience. Questioning the constitution of this privilege allows for the interrogation of the extent to which British migration to Europe rests on the project of European integration and how privilege will be reshaped in the aftermath of Brexit.
